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Assessment UpdateHope Allen
Hope.Allen@arkansas.gov
Director of Assessment
The ACTO 11th Grade Only
O Districts MUST administer
O Students who may choose not to participate:O Those for whom there are not
sufficient accommodations availableO Those who refuse or whose parents
refuse for them to participate.
The ACTO Children or relatives of the ACT testing
coordinator are not eligible to test
O Materials will ship to the school NOT district
O Test Administrators must be employed by the district
O TechnologyO http://www.act.org/aap/pdf/
TechnicalRequirements.pdf
O Chromebooks and iPads cannot be used
O AccommodationsO ACT will approve
O http://www.actstudent.org/regist/disab/
SchedulingO Paper testing
O March 1st
O Makeup March 15th only
O All students will test the morning of the 1st or 15th
O Online testingO Window March 1st – 15th
O All sessions must be administered within a single setting
O Students may be scheduled to test throughout the window
ACT Aspire
Students Grades 3-10
Alternate
NCSC for Math and ELA
Grades 3-8 and 11
Science Portfolio
Grades 5,7 and 10 only
ACT Aspire
Math, English, Writing,
Reading and Science
ACT AspireO Grades 3-10
O Math, English, writing, reading and science yearly
O Requests for waiver from online testing are due September 25th
O Window to administer: April 11th – May 13th
O Schools set their schedule
O Test Administrators must be licensed by ADE
Scheduling
Scheduling Computer Based Testing
O No more than three subject tests per day
O There is no order in which the subject tests have to be administered
O Grade cohorts must test on the same day, or as close together as possible
O Small groups may be neededO http://actaspire.avocet.pearson.com/actaspi
re/home#6482
ACT Aspire ResourcesO www.actaspire.pearson.com
O Technology Specs
O Chromebooks will work
O iPads may be as supported device but not sure as of today
O Training Modules
O Note: some administration procedures may change to align with state policy
O Exemplars
O Manuals
Information…Avocet
O Online index of ancillaries, manuals, program resources
O Only the latest version will be posted
O Requires no login
O Mobile-ready
O http://actaspire.avocet.pearson.com
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O Enables convenient self-paced training
O Requires email to login
O Transcript feature tracks training
O Mobile-ready
O http://actaspire.tms.pearson.com/
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Training Management System (TMS)
Training Calendar of Events
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Caution: Not Specific to Arkansas
CalculatorsO Grades 3-5
O NO CALCULATOR - Even as an accommodation
O Grades 6-10O ACT-approved personal calculator OR
Online calculator tool
O http://actaspire.avocet.pearson.com/actaspire/home#6585
O http://www.actstudent.org/faq/calculator.html
LiveBinder
*****BOOKMARK THIS PAGE*****
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=
1770184
O ADE will share and archive information here throughout the year
ACT Aspire Periodic Assessments
O Available late fall – No official date at this time
O Schools will be responsible for
managing all data
O Fixed forms for both Interim and
Classroom
O Set up in the same system as the
summative
Scheduled TrainingsO September 30th – New DTCO October – Pearson/ACT present in
stateO NWA and Central AR locationsO Dates TBD
O Co-op Hosted O TechnologyO Accommodations O Check with Co-op for dates
O JanuaryO DTC Test Administration
Alternate AssessmentO Significantly Cognitively Disabled Students
Only
O NCSC for ELA and Math grades 3-8 and 11
O Science portfolio for grades 5, 7 and 10
O Training invitations have been sent
O RSVP by September 10th even if you are not attending
O Traditional portfolio
O Optional online collection and storage
ELPA21OEnglish Language Proficiency
Assessment
OAll EL students not exited from ESL
OGrades K-12 yearly
OReading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
OComputer-based only
OTesting WindowO February 1- March 11
IOWA Assessment
O Grades 1 and 2 only
O Window April 4th – 15th
O Grade cohort must test at the same time
O Will include Math Computation
O Adds 25 minutes overall
O Schools will receive CCSS domain scores
QELI
OFinal ship date is Friday, September 25th
OReturn material are located in the Return Kit
Things to RememberO Science portfolios will be completed only by those qualify to take
NCSC
O Students that do not qualify for NCSC will take ACT Aspire in grades
3-10
O Schools set their own schedules for Computer Based Testing
O Use of COGNOS will be required
O Clean data is a MUST
O All students test by grade enrolled at the time of testing
O Teachers teach the CCSS
Additional InformationO DTC Advisory Panel
O Contact the Office of Student AssessmentO Hope.Allen@arkansas.gov DirectorO Susan.Gray@arkansas.gov Test
AdministrationO Alex.Pritchett@arkansas.gov Periodic
Assessments
O Jared.Hogue@arkansas.gov Accommodations
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