1. You Can’t Afford to be Late!
ACT Aspire Resources
You Can’t Afford to be Late!

2. ACT Aspire Resources ACT Aspire Exemplars Knowledge and Skills Maps
Training Management System(TMS)
Technical Bulletin #1
Technical Bulletin #2
Interpretive Guide for ACT Aspire Summative Reports
Understanding Your ACT Aspire Results

3. ACT Aspire Alabama Site: Gateway to Resources www.act.org/aap/alabama
The ACT Aspire Alabama site provides the following:
Test Dates
Links to sites
Manuals and Supplements
Training
Score Reporting
Contact Information

4. ACT Aspire Exemplars Computer-Based Version
There is a specific Username and Password for each subject and grade level.

5. ACT Aspire Sandbox

6. Knowledge and Skills Mapping http://skillsmap. actlabs
Knowledge and Skills Mapping username: actlabs password: actlabs
Agree to the terms.
Includes interactive maps in all content areas in Grades 3-12.
Provides an overview of skills and knowledge that research suggests a student should master on the path to college and career readiness.
Assists educators with curriculum mapping, planning, development, implementation, and decision making.

7. Knowledge and Skills Maps
The maps use language that reflects state college and career readiness standards, as well as ACT’s own empirically derived College and Career Readiness Benchmarks.
The prototype ACT Knowledge and Skills tool is designed to help users identify at what level benchmarks are tested.
The maps use language that reflects state college and career readiness standards (including the Common Core State Standards), as well as ACT’s own empirically derived College and Career Readiness Standards.
The prototype ACT Knowledge and Skills tool is designed to help users make connections between ACT’s assessments and other key aspects of the overall assessment system.
There are 15 exemplar (sample) questions at each grade level and subject. Each sample question has an explanation of the question and an explanation of the standard. Within each set of approximately 15 questions, there is one item per reporting category.

8. Knowledge and Skills Maps
Choose a subject.

9. Knowledge and Skills Maps Reading
There are six levels of Text Complexity. Click the icon for more information.
Click the arrow to expand the section.

10. Knowledge and Skills Maps Reading
By clicking “complex,” the user is provided with a list of characteristics of Complex Literary Narratives and /or Informational Text.
Literary Narrative
Purpose/Levels of Meaning
Structure
Language
Abstractness
Density
Knowledge Demands

11. Knowledge and Skills Maps Math
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Math
Choose a grade span, Math only.

12. Knowledge and Skills Maps Math
Math 6-8 span
There are 15 exemplar questions at each grade level and subject. Within each set, there is one reporting category
Each category expands.

13. Knowledge and Skills Maps Math
Sample Description
Proportional relationships are multiplicative relationships between quantities and are the next step toward general linear relationships. Students coming into this grade band start with strong multiplication skills and expand the ways of working with ″how many times as much?″ comparisons, including ratios, rates, and percentages. They look at rate-of-change and connect unit rates with the slope of a graph, a pattern in a table, and a multiplier in an equation, using all forms of rational numbers. This builds to general understanding of function as input and output pairs and understanding of proportional functions and then linear functions. Functions are not tied to a specific representation: tables can show representative values, graphs can show behavior in a representative region, equations can represent some types of functions. Linear equations y = mx + b represent all linear functions. The Expressions and Equations domain provides ways of working with these equations. Linear functions are useful in modeling.
Description
Each category has a Description and related Citations.
Citations

14. Knowledge and Skills Maps Math
Sample question: Explain why f(x)=4 is or is NOT a function.
Explain why a graph is or isn’t a function. (Function Behavior)

15. Knowledge and Skills Maps Science
Choose a content level based on the grade level of significance, High/Moderate.
There are five levels on the Content Complexity Continuum.

16. Knowledge and Skills Maps Science
Context Level 4 scenarios are designed for middle and high school students. These scenarios are designed to be moderately complex for a high school student and are the most complex scenarios used to assess middle [school] students. The complexity that results from the combination of topic and tone, the presented data, and the embedded concepts may be viewed as challenging to a high school student who has not had consistent, rigorous, science instruction. A middle school student is likely to find aspects of the scenario challenging even if they have had consistent, rigorous, science instruction and will need to rely heavily on the presented information to gain understanding of the presented concepts in order to answer many of the questions.
Context Level 4

17. Knowledge and Skills Maps Science
Evaluation of Models, Inferences, and Experimental Results
The entire section has sample questions

18. Knowledge and Skills Maps Crosswalk for Mathematics and English Language Arts
The interactive guide in the center allows you to drill down to the knowledge and skills reporting categories.
Use “print screen” or copy/paste into a Word document to print information.
The interactive guide in the center allows you to drill down to the knowledge and skills reporting categories.
Skills on the left side of the bar are those assessed
The skills on the right side of the bar are the common core state standards.

19. Understanding Point of View and Bias
Knowledge and Skills Maps Crosswalk for Mathematics and English Language Arts
ELA
Skills on the left side of the bar are those that are assessed.
Skills on the right side of the bar are the Career- and College-Ready Standards.
Understanding Point of View and Bias
Reporting Categories

20. Knowledge and Skills Maps Crosswalk for Mathematics and English Language Arts
ELA includes reading, English, and writing.
ELA
Understanding Point of View and Bias
Click “Range of Reading and Text Complexity.”
Additional alignment information

21. Knowledge and Skills Maps Crosswalk for Mathematics and English Language Arts
ELA
Range of Reading and Text Complexity R10
List of matching skills found in the ACT Knowledge and Skills Maps

22. Training Management System(TMS) https://actaspire. tms. pearson
TMS provides videos on various topics related to ACT Aspire.
The site requires an address only.
There are modules for summative testing, formative testing, and enhancement demonstrations.

23. Training Management System(TMS) https://actaspire. tms. pearson

24. Training Management System(TMS) https://actaspire. tms. pearson

25. Training Management System(TMS) https://actaspire. tms. pearson
You are able to print a transcript of completed modules.
Click the icon attached to your name.
Click “View Transcript.”
Once the transcript is created, click “Print.”

26. Technical Bulletin #1 http://actaspire. avocet. pearson
Test Development and Specifications
ACT Aspire Scores
ACT Aspire and Standards
Claims, Interpretations, and Uses of ACT Aspire
ACT Aspire Test Development
ACT Aspire Assessments Content Description
Scoring Constructed-Response Tasks

27. Technical Bulletin #2 http://actaspire. avocet. pearson
Focus- Norms, Scoring, Scaling, and Psychometrics
Key Areas
ACT Aspire Score Scale
ACT Aspire Scores
ACT Benchmarks
ACT Aspire Growth
Progress toward Career Readiness
Reliability and Validity
Mode Comparability Study
ACT Aspire Equating
Tons of Tables

28. Interpretive Guide for ACT Aspire Summative Reports http://actaspire
The Interpretive Guide provides an overview of the ACT Aspire Program and the following reports:
State Reports
District Reports
Student Reports
Dynamic Reports

29. Understanding Your ACT Aspire Results http://actaspire.avocet.pearson.com/actaspire/home#11029
Understanding your ACT Aspire Results provides answers to three leading questions.
Where do I stand right now?
How can I make goals in the future?
Am I on target for high school, college, and career?

30. Old School Thinking

31. New World Order

32. Don’t “Sleep” on ACT Aspire Resources!

33. Contact Information