Achievement District Test Coordinator Updates
January 9, 2023 |
Achievement District Test Coordinators (DTCs),
Happy New Year! As we approach the spring statewide achievement testing windows, please remember the following regarding DTC communications.
- Include your district entity number on emails to us. This helps to speed up the research process on our end as we work to get answers to your testing questions.
- Include the name of the assessment you have a question about - AASA, AzSCI, ACT Aspire, and/or ACT. This helps us to know which staff members can best assist you and also assists us with researching your questions.
- Achievement DTC emails for the 2022-2023 school year are posted on the Achievement DTC page of our website, under the dropdown for "Achievement DTC Communications - 2022-2023 School Year," for easy access.
- Please send questions about AASA to AASA@azed.gov, questions about AzSCI to AzSCI@azed.gov, and questions about ACT Aspire or ACT to Testing@azed.gov. Please send your question to only one of these inboxes. Please do not copy all of the inboxes on your email.
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Achievement Training Modules
Reminder: Training modules are now available in Pearson's Arizona Training Management System (ATMS): https://azachieve.tms.pearson.com/. From this link, complete the Registration page with your information, using the email address associated with your PearsonAccessNext account. Then, select your user role. Achievement District Test Coordinators (DTCs) must select "District Test Coordinator" as the user role to ensure ADE is able to track your completion of the required training modules.
ADE will track that DTCs have completed training. It is the responsibility of DTCs to track that testing staff within your district or charter have received training according to their user roles. The following chart provides details regarding each training module and which user roles are required to complete them. Your testing staff may view the modules within ATMS or you may share the modules in a group training outside of ATMS. A PowerPoint and transcript is available for each module, and there is also a "Group Training" feature within ATMS. Please see the ATMS FAQ document for additional information.
When accessing the training modules, please note there are three tabs across the top of the ATMS webpage: Achievement Testing, AASA, and AzSCI. The "AASA-Training for Test Coordinators" module is located under the AASA tab, the "AzSCI-Training for Test Coordinators" module is located under the AzSCI tab, and all other modules are located under the Achievement Testing tab.
Achievement District Test Coordinators should complete required training modules in ATMS by January 31, 2023. |
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Special Paper Version and Additional Accommodations Requests
Reminder: Please submit any requests for Special Paper Version (braille, large print, and regular print) tests or Additional Accommodations now. The submission window for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire is open through February 24, 2023, but please do not wait until the deadline to submit!
ACT accommodations requests should be submitted directly to ACT through ACT's Test Accessibility and Accommodations (TAA) system. The deadline for initial requests has been extended to February 3, 2023.
For more information about Special Paper Version and Additional Accommodations requests, please see the Accommodations email which was sent to Achievement DTCs on October 13, 2022. |
Pearson Technology Office Hours
Pearson Technology Office Hours sessions are available in 15 min., 30 min., or 60 min. sessions for district or school technology personnel responsible for setting up testing devices for online testing. Please use the following link if you would like to set up a Pearson Technology Office Hours session: https://calendly.com/az-field-services-engineering. |
AASA - Upcoming Dates
January 9-20 - Participation Count and Materials Due-in-District Window. In the PearsonAccessNext site for AASA, DTCs for both computer-based testing and paper-based testing sites will need to enter participation counts for each school and select the district's preferred delivery window for AASA materials. Detailed steps for completing these tasks are included in the PearsonAccessNext User's Guide.
UPDATE: The Materials Due-in-District task was not working correctly in PearsonAccessNext today (January 9th), but Pearson is implementing a fix and this task should be available to DTCs tomorrow, January 10th.
January 25 - Last day to revise student enrollments in AzEDS prior to ADE's upload of students for AASA.
February 6 - ADE's upload of students will be visible in PearsonAccessNext.
February 13 - Deadline to submit any changes or corrections to DTC contact information and shipping address listed in PearsonAccessNext. Any changes must be submitted to ADE at AASA@azed.gov. |
AzSCI - Upcoming Dates
February 15 - Last day to revise student enrollments in AzEDS prior to ADE's upload of students for AzSCI.
February 20 - ADE's upload of students will be visible in PearsonAccessNext. |
ACT Aspire - Upcoming Dates
January 25 - Last day to revise student enrollments in AzEDS prior to ADE's upload of students for ACT Aspire.
January 31 - ADE's upload of students will be visible in PearsonAccessNext. |
ACT - Upcoming Dates
January 17 - Last day to revise student enrollments in AzEDS prior to ADE's upload of students for ACT.
February 3 - Deadline to request ACT-authorized accommodations and/or supports through ACT's Test Accessibility and Accommodations (TAA) system.
February 8 - Complete mock administration and site readiness tasks for online testing.
February 10 - Deadline to request reconsideration of ACT-authorized accommodations and/or supports in TAA. |
Audra Ahumada
Deputy Associate Superintendent of Assessment
Arizona Department of Education
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Dr. Joseph Guzman
Associate Superintendent of Assessment, Accountability, Standards, and Research
Arizona Department of Education |
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