We are currently planning the second biennial Arizona Assessments Conference. Here is some important information:

A new Spring 2024 Reporting Infographic has been posted on our website. This new infographic includes all of the Achievement 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), the ACT Aspire Schedule of Events, and the ACT Reporting Schedule.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

It is the responsibility of districts and schools to verify that all students who tested receive scores back. This is especially important for paper-based testing schools 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) and should not wait until paper copies are received to complete this task. If a student is not included in the electronic reports in PAN, 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 28, 2024.

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 code file (in CSV format) is available in PearsonAccess Next, 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 in English and Spanish and can be used to distribute claim codes to parents/guardians.

Per § 15-741.F, districts may request a district data file for AASA. The Spring 2024 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 7, 2024 by completing the following request form:

The Move on When Reading (MOWR) indicator will be included 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:

The AASA Grade 3 ELA-Reading Summer Administration, available June 17 - July 19, only applies to Grade 3 students who fail to meet the cut score for MOWR on the Spring 2024 AASA ELA administration and who do not qualify for one of the good cause exemptions. Please see the AASA Grade 3 ELA-Reading Summer Administration infographic for additional details.

The Achievement Assessments team will be hosting a webinar on May 8, 1:00-2:00pm to provide additional information and answer District Test Coordinator questions regarding the AASA Grade 3 ELA-Reading Summer Administration. Use the registration link below to register for the live event. The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Achievement District Test Coordinator page of our website after the live event. An FAQ will also be created to answer questions received during the webinar.  

Webinar Registration Link: https://azed.geniussis.com/Registration.aspx?aid=9776

TestNav has a planned annual application release in July. After the updated version is released, the TestNav application automatically updates the next time it is launched on the following operating systems:

The updated TestNav application must be manually downloaded and installed from download.testnav.com for the following operating systems:

Please coordinate with your technology staff to plan for updating all testing devices once the update is available. Pearson will send an email notification to all District Test Coordinators the week of July 1 to confirm the date of the release and any notable changes to the TestNav platform. 

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 beginning 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 > Assessments > Corrections > Student Demographic Corrections or by: logging into ADEConnect > 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 28, 2024.

Arizona's measures of academic success in Spring 2025 include administering:

The Assessments Overview calendar has been updated with tentative Spring 2025 test windows.

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 or ACT, please contact us at Testing@azed.gov.

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

May 2 | Spring 2024 ELP Test Results available electronically, including the Student Data File

May 10 | Last day to download PD certificates from the AzLMS and Understand Scoring

May 10 | Placement Test window closes

May 15 | Paper copies of the Spring 2024 AZELLA Reassessment Individual Student Reports arrive at districts and charters

Last day of school | Download and print your EL73 Reports

June 3 | Placement Test Cycle 12 and cumulative FY2024 Student Data Files available in PAN

June 10 | Paper copies of the Placement Cycle 12 Reports arrive at districts and charters

June 28 | 2024-2025 District Test Coordinator Security Agreement due

July 1 | Annual and Placement Test Training modules and the Understand Scoring Qualifications open in the AzLMS

Approximately 113,570 students completed the Spring 2024 English Language Proficiency Assessments (AZELLA, Alt ELPA, and Braille tests).

The electronic results of the Spring 2024 AZELLA Reassessment Test will be available in PAN on May 2, 2024. The paper copies of the Individual Student Reports will arrive at districts and charters on May 15, 2024. Don't forget to check the Corrections (File Metrics) application in ADEConnect for student records that need correcting before they can pass Integrity. 

When using the Spring 2024 AZELLA Reassessment Student Data File, the File Layout must be used with the Student Information System (SIS) first. The SIS administrator will need to work with the SIS vendor to get this layout file in place prior to uploading the Student Data File.  

It is the AZELLA DTC's responsibility to periodically check the AZELLA DTC webpage for information and updated documents that will be used for the 2024-2025 school year.

The Arizona Learning Management System (AzLMS) for the 2024-2025 school year will open on July 1, 2024, for the AZELLA Annual and AZELLA Placement training modules and the Understand Scoring qualifications. For those who have an AzLMS account from the 2023-2024 school year and will be in the same district during the 2024-2025 school year, you will use your same AzLMS account. New AZELLA DTCs will receive an invitation from Adobe for their AzLMS account. AZELLA staff who have an AzLMS account and change districts for the new school year will need to self-register again for a new AzLMS account.

The 2024-2025 Understand Scoring training and qualifications for the Kindergarten Placement Test Administrators and the Grade 1 and Grades 2-3 Placement Writing Scorers will be accessed through the AzLMS. The current Understand Scoring site will be shut down by Pearson on May 10, 2024. Please encourage all users who received any of these qualifications during the 2023-2024 school year to download their Professional Development certificates before May 10, 2024. These certificates will not be available after May 10, 2024.

The Understand Scoring content, training, practice, and qualification sets are not changing. The secure content of Understand Scoring remains in place. Starting with school year 2024-2025, once users sign into the AzLMS, they will see Understand Scoring in the Catalog. The key code is required to access the 3 different qualifications. The key code for the 2024-2025 school year is case sensitive and the same for all 3 qualifications. Key Code = 2425azella.

ADE will work with Pearson to enable AZELLA DTC PearsonAccess Next (PAN) accounts for the 2024-2025 AZELLA Placement Test administration once ADE verifies that the DTC has completed the training requirements. The earliest a DTC PAN account will be enabled for the Placement administration is July 8, 2024.

Districts will be able to access a student's EL70 Report within 2 calendar weeks prior to their school enrollment date provided the school enrollment has been processed through AzEDS and passed Integrity. The date in which access to the student's EL70 Report is granted is dependent on when the district's Student Information System has synchronized the student's school enrollment to AzEDS.

The Placement Test administration opens on the district's first student instructional day of the school year and runs throughout the school year ending in mid-May. Districts and charters may use an ADE approved 2-calendar week jump-start to begin the administration of the Placement Test before their first instructional day only when the DTC, STCs, and TAs have completed the requirements for the AZELLA Placement Test administration. 

The following groups of students must be administered the AZELLA Placement Test within the first two calendar weeks (or within the two weeks prior to the start) of the 2024-2025 school year:

All private schools wanting to participate with AZELLA testing must pay for their own tests and conduct their own testing. They will also require their own AZELLA DTC and testing staff. Private schools will no longer be associated with the public school districts for AZELLA testing in PearsonAccess Next. More information on private school testing will be available in the summer. 

If you have questions or concerns about a student's AZELLA test, please send your inquiry to AZELLA@azed.gov. You must include the student(s) SSID number(s).

If you have any questions about AZELLA, please contact us at AZELLA@azed.gov.

If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Gary McIlvaine, AZ Director of NAEP and International Assessments:

602-364-1538