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Updates and Reminders - October 5, 2023
Achievement Testing Mode Selection Application - Closing Soon
September 18 - October 13, 2023

No action needs to be taken if your school site(s) will remain
computer-based for Spring 2024

All Achievement testing is, by default, administered to students online in TestNav. The application to request paper test administration is open to District Test Coordinators in ADEConnect and will close on October 13, 2023.

A separate submission is required for each school site and for each Achievement assessment (AASA, AzSCI, ACT Aspire, and/or ACT) for which paper testing is being requested. When submitting a request, you will need to enter a reason for the testing mode change to paper. ADE's Achievement Assessment team will review each request individually and update the status in the ADEConnect application. District Test Coordinators can then check the application in ADEConnect for a status update.

To request paper test administration, log into ADEConnect and select Assessments. Click on the dropdown for Achievement Reports, and select Achievement Testing Mode to begin. Users must have the ADEConnect role of "Achievement District Test Coordinator" to submit a request for paper test administration.

AzSCI Paper Testing
For AzSCI to be administered as a paper test, every student response must be key-entered into the TestNav online testing platform after students have completed testing and before the end of the AzSCI test window. This must be completed by a Test Administrator who has been trained and who has signed a test security agreement.

AASA Paper Testing
All Grade 3 students will take the AASA ELA Oral Reading Fluency test online in TestNav, including students in paper-based testing schools. The Oral Reading Fluency test is no longer administered on a speaker telephone in paper-based testing schools.
ACT Aspire Updates

Arizona students in the 9th grade cohort (Cohort 2027) will take the ACT Aspire assessment in Spring 2024. While ACT Aspire has been discontinued at a national level, Arizona will continue to administer the ACT Aspire Early High School (EHS) assessment to students in the 9th grade cohort for the life of our contract.

Beginning November 1, 2023, support for ACT Aspire will shift from ACT to Pearson.
  • The current ACT Aspire PearsonAccess Next site will be retired on October 31, 2023 and will be replaced with a new PearsonAccess Next site on November 1, 2023. The new Aspire PearsonAccess Next link is coming soon!
  • All ACT Aspire Published Reports, including Individual Student Reports and Student Performance Files for Spring 2023 and Spring 2022 data, will be migrated to the new PearsonAccess Next site.
  • ACT Aspire OnDemand Reports, Proficiency Reports, Historical Student Data, and Current Progress Report will no longer be accessible for Spring 2023 after October 31, 2023. These ACT Aspire reports are removed from PearsonAccess Next each school year on October 31.
  • If you would like to access and download your ACT Aspire data prior to the transition, please do so prior to October 31, 2023.
  • The Arizona ACT Aspire webpage will be available through the Spring 2024 test administration.
ACT Webinars

ACT will be hosting three webinars for Arizona in the 2023-2024 school year. The target audience for these webinars is District Test Coordinators and School Test Coordinators. Registration links are included below.

Test Administration #1 - November 8, 2023, 9:00am-10:00am (Registration Link)
Accommodations: November 15, 2023, 9:00am-10:00am (Registration Link)
Test Administration #2: February 21, 2024, 9:00am-10:00am (Registration Link)
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 Aspire and ACT, please contact us at Testing@azed.gov.
Audra Ahumada
Deputy Associate Superintendent of Assessment
Arizona Department of Education

Joseph M. Guzman, Ph.D.
Associate Superintendent of Standards, Assessment, Accountability and Research
Arizona Department of Education