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Spring 2023 Assessment Materials

Test Coordinator's Manuals and Test Administration Directions for AASA, AzSCI, ACT Aspire, and ACT are non-secure test materials and can be discarded locally at your site. Used scratch paper and testing tickets are secure test materials and must be securely destroyed for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire. ACT test administration tickets and scratch paper should have been returned to ACT following testing.
Achievement Training Management System

The Achievement Training Management System (ATMS) will close for school year 2022 - 2023 on June 15, 2023. If you need to download ATMS reports from Spring 2023 trainings, please do so before that date. Training modules for Spring 2024 will launch in Fall/Winter 2023 in Pearson's new Arizona Learning Management System (ALMS). The new ALMS will replace the ATMS.

Reporting from Spring 2023 Assessments

A new Spring 2023 Reporting Infographic has been posted on our website. This new infographic includes all of the Achievement reporting dates in one location for easy access!

Two copies of each individual student report will be sent to districts and charters. One copy is to be distributed to parents/guardians, and the other copy is to be placed in the student's secure file.

Achievement testing score reports are not embargoed. However, it is important to remember that individual student scores can only be shared with those who have an educational need to view them and with parents/guardians. 

Please note the following as scores are published over the coming weeks.
  • All AASA ELA test units must be valid to receive an AASA ELA score.
  • All AASA Math test units must be valid to receive an AASA Math score. 
  • All AzSCI test units must be valid to receive an AzSCI score.
  • For ACT and ACT Aspire, the English, Reading, and Writing tests must be valid to receive an ELA score. The Math test must be valid to receive a Math score. The ACT STEM score is a combined score for the Math and Science tests.
Student Data File Layouts

The Student Data File Layout for each Achievement assessment is posted on the Achievement District Test Coordinator page of our website, under the "Reporting" dropdown for each assessment.

Reporting Guides

The AASA Reporting Guide and the AzSCI Reporting Guide have recently been updated and are published on the Achievement District Test Coordinator webpage. 

Resources for interpreting ACT and ACT Aspire reports are located on the ACT-hosted website, under Step 7: Interpretation. 

Move on When Reading (MOWR)

Move on When Reading (MOWR) will be featured on the AASA Grade 3 score reports. In order to determine whether third grade students met the MOWR requirements for promotion to the fourth grade, please complete the following after scores are published:
  • Download the AASA Student Data File for your school or district/charter.
  • Filter the "Move on When Reading Requirement" column.
  • Any student who has "N" in this column did not meet the cut score for MOWR.
Grade 3 Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)

As a reminder, the Grade 3 ORF test unit was field tested again in Spring 2023 and will not appear on score reports, will not be included in the overall ELA score, and will not count for Move on When Reading in Spring 2023. At this time, a decision has not been made regarding the inclusion of the ORF items on the Grade 3 ELA test. This decision will be made by the Arizona State Board of Education.

Grade 8 ACT Predictive Score

Grade 8 ELA and Math score reports will include a "Predicted ACT Score" chart. This chart will include the student's "score" and "score range." The "score range" included is the score the student would likely receive if they were to be tested again. Students who score at or above the ACT score indicated on the AASA score report are more likely to be successful in college courses taken by first-year students.

AASA Parent Portal

The AASA Parent Portal is an optional resource schools and districts/charters may use to allow families to securely access and view their student's AASA score reports online. The Parent Portal is available for AASA only. Hard copies of individual student reports will still be sent to districts/charters and should be provided to parents. 

In order for families to access their student's score reports in the AASA Parent Portal, a claim code will be required. The claim code can only be obtained from the student's school; however, schools are not required to distribute Parent Portal claim codes.

A claim codes file (in CSV format) is available in PearsonAccessNext, under Reports > Operational Reports > Students & Registrations > Claim Codes, to users with the following user roles: AASA District Test Coordinator, AASA District Report Only, AASA School Test Coordinator, and AASA School Report Only.

A Parent Portal User Guide is published on the AASA website and can be used to distribute claim codes to parents/guardians.

If your district/charter or any of your schools utilized the AASA Parent Portal following Spring 2022 testing, or if you utilize it for sharing Spring 2023 AASA results with parents/guardians, please share feedback and tips with us at AASA@azed.gov. We will compile any feedback received to share with other District Test Coordinators!

AASA District Data File

Per ยง 15-741.F, districts may request a district data file for AASA. The Spring 2023 district data file will include student and item information and other relevant data points not contained in the standard data file, including item type, theta scores by reporting category, scale score by reporting category, and number of items by reporting category. For a district or charter to receive an AASA district data file, a request must be submitted to ADE by June 9, 2023 by completing the following request form: https://www.azed.gov/assessment/aasa-district-data-file-spring-2023.    

New This Year for AASA Reporting

In addition to the electronic score reports, student data files, and On Demand reports available in PearsonAccessNext, new AASA Longitudinal and Historical Score Reports will also be available this year. A Quick Guide for accessing the AASA Longitudinal and Historical Score Reports will be published soon! Please see the AASA DTC Important Tasks Checklist or the new Reporting Infographic for associated reporting dates.

New This Year for AzSCI Reporting

In addition to the electronic score reports and student data files, a new AzSCI Summary File (.txt format) with summary performance data will be available in PearsonAccessNext this year for district and school level user roles. Please see the AzSCI Reporting Guide for additional details and the AzSCI DTC Important Tasks Checklist or the new Reporting Infographic for associated reporting dates.

New This Year for ACT Reporting

Beginning with the Spring 2023 testing cycle, ACT reports and student data files will be available only in the ACT Online Reporting Portal at success.act.org. Reports will not be available in PearsonAccessNext. More information is available in the ACT Online Reporting - Summary of Updates document and the ACT Profile Report vs. Contract Reports crosswalk. Tutorial videos are also available on the ACT-hosted website.
Achievement Assessments Corrections Application

Unmatched AASA, AzSCI, ACT Aspire, and/or ACT test records will begin to appear in the ADEConnect Corrections Application beginning in late May. To review and update test record demographics in the Corrections Application, you must have the "Achievement District Test Coordinator" role in ADEConnect. Automated weekly emails will be sent to Achievement District Test Coordinators to inform of any outstanding records in the Corrections Application. Please review and correct any test records in the Corrections Application as quickly as possible. The deadline to complete corrections is June 30, 2023.
Looking Ahead to Spring 2024

Arizona's measures of academic success in Spring 2024 include administering:
  • Arizona's Academic Standards Assessments (AASA) - the statewide achievement test for Arizona students in Grades 3-8. AASA assesses the Arizona English Language Arts and Arizona Mathematics Standards.
  • Arizona Science Test (AzSCI) - the statewide achievement test for Science, administered in Grades 5, 8, and the 11th grade cohort (Cohort 2025).
  • ACT Aspire - statewide high school assessment administered in the 9th grade cohort (Cohort 2027).
  • ACT - statewide high school assessment administered in the 11th grade cohort (Cohort 2025).
An updated Assessments Overview calendar with tentative Spring 2024 test windows has been posted on our website. 

New - More Online Test Days for ACT in Spring 2024

Arizona will continue to have two test windows available for ACT testing in Spring 2024. However, there will now be nine online test days in each window rather than six. Online testing may take place Tuesday - Friday of the first week in the window and Monday - Friday of the second week. There will continue to be one paper test day in each window.

Schools may use both published state ACT test windows in order to assess all Cohort 2025 students. Schools are encouraged to administer ACT during the first test window and may also use the second test window, as needed, to complete any makeup testing. Schools administering ACT on paper may also use the online test dates for makeup testing. Any schools that choose to administer the ACT during only the second test window will not have an additional ACT test window to use for makeup testing. Test window selection will be made in ACT's PearsonAccessNext platform in Fall 2023.
TestNav System Requirements 2023-2024

Pearson has published the TestNav System Requirements 2023-2024 Technical Bulletin. Links are included below.
Accommodations

As your Special Education staff conduct their IEP meetings this spring and at the beginning of the school year, please remind them to review the Accessibility manuals posted on the Accessibility page of our website. Accommodations considerations should be based on what the student routinely uses during instruction and is allowable on the statewide assessments. All accommodations should be documented in the student's plan and used routinely in instruction. If an accommodation is not deemed necessary to access content during instruction, the accommodation should not be requested for assessment purposes only. 

District Test Coordinators may submit accommodations requests for Spring 2024 assessments for students with an IEP or 504 plan beginning in the fall. Accommodations requests should not include requests for universal tools or supports as detailed in the Accommodations Manual. Requests for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire accommodations will be submitted to ADE for review. Requests for ACT accommodations will be submitted directly to ACT for review. Additional details will be provided in the August Assessments Bulletin. 
For questions about AASA, please contact us at AASA@azed.gov.
For questions about AzSCI, please contact us at AzSCI@azed.gov.
For questions about ACT or ACT Aspire, please contact us at Testing@azed.gov.