Thank you for completing the Alt ELPA summative assessment, which closed on March 14. Alt ELPA reports are available in the Cambium platform under the reporting portal. Hard copies will be sent to the District of Attendance later this month. More information will be e-mailed to Alternate Assessment Test Coordinators. The Alt ELPA Screener window will close on May 9, 2025 and will reopen for the 2025-2026 school year on August 4. Please remember that students must be determined eligible for alternate assessments before taking the Alt ELPA Screener. 

The MSAA test window ended on April 25. Over 6000 students completed MSAA testing. The MSAA system is closed until reporting opens on July 14. Only District Test Coordinators will have access to the MSAA reporting portal.

Test Coordinators are responsible for ensuring that printed test materials are securely shredded after the testing window closes. Downloaded folders and test materials (DTAs, printed versions of a student's test, etc.) must be permanently deleted from the desktop. Test Administration Manuals are not secure test materials and do not have to be shredded. These materials may be discarded. Do not send any materials to ADE.

The MSAA reporting portal will be open from July 14 - September 5, 2025. Reports will be available for ELA, Mathematics, and Science. Reports are available at the District of Attendance (DOA) so your tuitioned-out and privately placed students will not be included in your reports. Please work with the DOA to get the results. More information on downloading reports and receiving hard copies of the student reports will be sent to the test coordinator in July.

The 2026 MSAA test administration window has not been finalized. Please plan for approximately the same window of mid-March until end of April. The confirmed test window will be shared with Alternate Assessment Test Coordinators when it is available.

Professional development (PD) hours certificates were e-mailed to the Alternate Assessment Test Coordinators in April. Please distribute the PD certificates to those individuals who completed the TA and/or TC training modules. There are separate certificates for Test Coordinators and Test Administrators for both Alt ELPA and MSAA. Please contact us if you need a list of your test administrator training status for Alt ELPA or MSAA.

All users will be removed from the MSAA system after reporting closes. You will no longer have access to any student or administration information. You will continue to have access to sample items and other instructional resources. User accounts will be created again in January. This step is necessary to keep the systems up to date.

Under federal regulation, the state is required to "provide appropriate oversight to each LEA that the State anticipates will assess more than 1% of its assessed students...using alternate assessments aligned with alternate academic achievement standards." Action plans for LEAs that exceeded 1% participation in the 2024 administration are due May 2, 2025. If you have not submitted your student information or Action Plan, please do so as soon as possible. Failure to cooperate with federally required monitoring may impact your IDEA funding. 

If you have any questions about Alternate Assessments, please contact us at AlternateAssessment@azed.gov.