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Reporting from Spring 2025 Achievement Assessments
Refer to the Spring 2025 Achievement Assessments Reporting infographic, which includes all of the Achievement Assessments reporting dates in one location for easy access. Specific reporting dates for each assessment are also included in the District Test Coordinator Important Tasks Checklists (for AASA and AzSCI) and the Schedule of Events (for ACT Aspire and ACT).
Electronic reports, including Student Data Files, Individual Student Reports and PDF reports for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire will be available in the respective PearsonAccess Next sites. Electronic reports for ACT will be available in ACT's online reporting system at success.act.org.
Two paper 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. Paper copies of ACT Individual Student Reports are sent directly to schools rather than to the district office. Paper copies of AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire Individual Student Reports are sent to the district address shown in PearsonAccess Next.
Achievement Assessment scores 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. For grades 4-8, the ELA score is comprised of the Writing unit and two Reading units. For grade 3, the ELA score includes the Writing unit, two Reading units, and the Oral Reading Fluency test unit. Students must have responded to at least one test item in each unit to receive a score.
- All Math test units must be valid to receive an AASA Math score. Students must have responded to at least one test item in each Math test unit to receive a score.
- All AzSCI test units must be valid to receive an AzSCI score. Students must have responded to at least one test item in each Science test unit to receive a 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 Composite score is comprised of the English, Math, Reading, and Science scores. The ACT STEM score is a combined score for the Math and Science tests. The ACT ELA score is an average of the Writing, English, and Reading scale scores. Refer to the Understanding ACT ELA Scores infographic for more information about ACT ELA scores.
Student Data File Layouts
Reporting Guides
Notify ADE of Missing Scores
It is the responsibility of districts and charters to verify that all students who tested receive scores back. It is especially important for paper-based testing schools to verify results to ensure all paper test materials were received by Pearson for scoring. Districts and schools should verify scores using the electronic reports that will be published in PearsonAccess Next (PAN) for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire, and in success.act.org for ACT, and should not wait until paper copies are received to complete this task. If a student is not included in the electronic reports, then they will also not receive paper copies of reports. Any discrepancies must be reported to ADE as soon as possible and no later than June 30, 2025.
Achievement Assessments Corrections Application
Any AASA, AzSCI, ACT Aspire, or ACT test records with an unmatched student name, date of birth, or SSID will begin to appear in the ADEConnect Corrections Application in late May. Unmatched records must be reviewed and matched by the Achievement District Test Coordinator.
To review and update test record demographics in the Corrections Application, you must have the "Achievement District Test Coordinator" role in ADEConnect. Access the Corrections Application by: logging into ADEConnect > View Applications > Assessments > Corrections > Student Demographic Corrections or by: logging into ADEConnect > View Applications > File Metrics > Student Demographic Corrections.
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, 2025. |
AASA Reporting
Move on When Reading (MOWR)
The Move on When Reading (MOWR) indicator will be included on the AASA Grade 3 score reports. To determine whether third grade students met the MOWR requirements for promotion to fourth grade, complete the following after scores are published in PearsonAccess Next.
- Download the AASA Student Data File for your district or charter. The AASA Student Data File layout is available on the Achievement District Test Coordinator webpage and in PearsonAccess Next under Support > Documentation.
- Filter the "Move on When Reading Requirement" column (column BV).
- Any student who has a "Y" in this column met the cut score for MOWR.
- Any student who has an "N" in this column did not meet the cut score for MOWR. Refer to ADE's MOWR website for additional information about MOWR and good cause exemptions.
- This column will be blank for any Grade 3 student with an incomplete or invalidated ELA test. Refer to ADE's MOWR website, follow up with ADE's MOWR team, or otherwise consider that the student has not met the MOWR cut score.
The AASA summer reading test will not be available this year. Please use the data collection tools you have been using. Alternatively, you may sign up for Navvy, a Pearson product offered through the Arizona Department of Education at no cost to district and charters, to collect data on reading standards that can be used in your promotion decisions. If your district or charter would like to sign up for Navvy, please send an email to Testing@azed.gov.
The Achievement Assessments Office Hours session, AASA Grade 3 ELA-Reading Summer Administration, scheduled for May 7, 2025, has been cancelled. For questions and more information, please join us for the final 2024-2025 Friday Focus Webinar, Looking Ahead to 2025-2026, on May 2, 2025, 1:00-2:00pm. This webinar will also be recorded and posted on our website after the live event.
AASA District Data File
Per ยง15-741, districts may request a district data file for AASA. the Spring 2025 AASA 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 6, 2025, by completing the request form. The district data files will be sent to the requesting DTC in a secure file in Summer 2025.
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. Paper copies of AASA Individual Student Reports will still be sent to districts and charters and should be provided to parents.
For parents 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 AASA Parent Portal claim codes.
A claim code file (in CSV format) is available to download in PearsonAccess Next by the following user roles: AASA District Test Coordinator, AASA District Report Only, AASA School Test Coordinator, and AASA School Report Only. To access the file, go to Reports > Operational Reports > Students & Registrations > Claim Codes.
A Parent Portal User Guide is published on the AASA website in English and Spanish and can be used to distribute claim codes to parents/guardians. |
Achievement Assessments - Looking Ahead to Spring 2026
Arizona's measures of academic success in Spring 2026 include administering the following assessments.
- Arizona's Academic Standards Assessment (AASA) - the statewide achievement test for Arizona students in Grades 3-8. AASA assesses the Arizona English Language Arts (ELA) 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 2027). AzSCI assesses the Arizona Science Standards.
- ACT Aspire - the statewide high school assessment administered in the 9th grade cohort (Cohort 2029). ACT Aspire includes the following test sections: English, Math, Reading, Science, and Writing.
- ACT - the statewide high school assessment administered in the 11th grade cohort (Cohort 2027). ACT includes the following test sections: English, Math, Reading, Science, and Writing.
Tentative test windows for Spring 2026 have been published in the 2025-2026 Assessments Overview. Test windows are tentative and subject to change. If any changes occur, they will be communicated to District Test Coordinators and updated on our websites in Fall 2025.
ACT Updates for Spring 2026
For the past several months, ACT has been communicating about upcoming enhancements to the ACT test. The ACT enhancements will be in effect for the Spring 2026 statewide ACT test administration and are summarized below. More information will be provided in the May 2nd Friday Focus Webinar, Looking Ahead to 2025-2026, and in Fall 2025 communications.
- Science will be included as part of the Arizona statewide ACT test administration in Spring 2026. This will allow students to receive an ACT STEM score on their reports. Students in the 11th grade cohort will also take AzSCI in Spring 2026.
- Writing will continue to be included as part of the Arizona statewide ACT test administration in Spring 2026 and is required for students to receive an ELA score.
- In Spring 2026, the ACT composite score will be comprised of the English, Math, and Reading test scores only. Science will no longer be included in the ACT composite score but will continue to be included in the ACT STEM score.
- Schools will have the flexibility to administer Science and Writing on a different day than English, Math, and Reading are administered.
- The ACT enhancements include fewer test items overall and more time per test item. Additional information is available on ACT's Test Enhancements webpage. An on-demand webinar is also available, as well as a Comparison of the Legacy and Enhanced ACT Test.
- New full-length practice tests reflect the enhancements and additional sample questions.
- In Spring 2026, Arizona's ACT statewide test administration platform will be ACT Now. ACT test administration tasks will no longer be located in the PearsonAccess Next platform. TestNav will continue to be the test engine for online tests. More information will be provided in Fall 2025!
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