Alabama Alternate Assessment
The Alabama Alternate Assessment(AAA) is a criterion-referenced state assessment administered as an alternate to the general education state assessment. The AAA is administered to students with significant cognitive disabilities working on the Alabama Extended Standards in the areas of reading, English language arts, mathematics and science.
The AAA is designed with four levels of complexity and three levels of assistance selected by the teacher based on the student's abilities to complete a task. During the school year, the teacher provides instruction on all extended standards for the subjects to be assessed according to the student's grade-level and collects pieces of evidence reflective of the student's performance. Three pieces of evidence per extended content standard are selected as the student's portfolio, and the evidence is scored using the AAA Rubric:
- Alignment to the extended standard
- Complexity of the extended content standard
- Level of assistance
- Mastery of content
Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State for English Language Learners - (ACCESS for ELLs 2.0)
ACCESS for ELLs is a secure large-scale English language proficiency assessment anchored in the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards and administered to students in Grades K-12 who have been identified as English language learners (ELs). It is given annually in Alabama and is used to monitor EL students' progress in acquiring academic English within the school context, as well as language associated with language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies across four domains of Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing.
ACT ASPIRE
Educators must measure what students know at a point early enough in their academic career to make adjustments and continue to measure their progress and what they learn over time. With the adoption of ACT Aspire, the Alabama State Department of Education is ensuring that our students are ready. ACT Aspire is a standards-based assessment system that gauges student progression from grades 3 through 10 in English, reading, writing, mathematics, and science. ACT Aspire is administered to all Grade 3-8 & 10 students in Alabama public schools.
ACT WorkKeys
All Grade 12 students in Alabama public schools will be assessed with ACT WorkKeys beginning Spring 2014. ACT WorkKeys assessments are research-based measures of foundational work skills required for success across industries and occupations. They have been used for more than two decades by job seekers, employees, employers, students, educators, administrators, and workforce and economic developers.
ACT WorkKeys assessments measure the cognitive and non-cognitive skills needed for success in the workforce.
School systems will test students in this cohort, as well as the eligible Grade 13 and Grade 14 students in earlier cohorts who need the AHSGE in order to meet their diploma requirements, during the fall, spring, and summer of the 2014-2015 academic year. The AHSGE will be administered for the last time in July 2015. Any student wishing to take the exam must contact the local high school or district no later than one week prior to the administration date.
National Assessment of Educational Progress
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation's students know and can do. NAEP is congressionally mandated, and was first administered in 1969 to measure student achievement nationally. NAEP is referred to as the Nation's Report Card because it tells us how students across the country, not just in one particular school or state, are performing.
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