The Office of Student Assessment is responsible for the coordination, development, and implementation of the state testing program. Our goal is to improve academic achievement for all Alabama students. This goal is accomplished by providing administrators, educators, parents, and the community the tools and information about student performance in the context of college and career readiness.
The ACT is the capstone of ACT College and Career Readiness Solutions, and it is aligned to Alabama’s College and Career Readiness Standards. The ACT with Writing is administered to all Grade 11 students enrolled in Alabama public high schools. The ACT
The ACT Individual High School Reports are excellent tools that can be used by counselors and teachers as they assist students in preparing for their futures. Educators will know the students’ educational strengths and weaknesses, areas of need, college plans, and career interests. Teachers and administrators will use the ACT Profile Report in intervention, curriculum review, course planning, collaboration, and professional development.
Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, the ACT with Writing became the accountability measure for high school assessments (math, English, and science). In school year 2020-2021, ACT with Writing Alabama Accountability Benchmarks shifted to reflect ELA, math and science as accountability measures.
ACCESS 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.
Primary Purposes:
Alternate ACCESS for ELLs is a performance-based assessment developed specifically for English learners (ELs) in Grades 1-12 with significant cognitive disabilities.
Participation Criteria:
ACCESS for ELLs – Kindergarten
ACCESS for ELLs – Online Accommodation Selection Checklist
ACCESS for ELLs – ALSDE Approval Required
Alternate ACCESS for ELLs Accommodation Selection Checklists
WIDA Screener Online Accommodation Checklist
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.
Accessibility Supports and Accommodations Policy for State Assessments
This information is for potential EL students who enroll in an Alabama school during a closure.
Alabama Resubmission to 2023-2024 Alabama One Percent Waiver Request to USDOE
District Justification for Exceeding the One Percent Cap 2023-2024
2023-2024 District Assurances
2023-2024 District Assurances
Alabama Sample Email to Superintendents Over the One Percent Cap Requirement Redacted
Alabama Timeline of Activities for the One Percent Cap Requirement 21-22
Alabama Justification for Exceeding One Percent Form 2021-2022
2020-2021 District Assurances
USDOE Letter to Approve the 1 Percent Cap Waiver 2021-2022
This document is intended to help guide IEP Teams to determine whether an alternate assessment program based on alternate academic achievement standards, is the most appropriate assessment for a student with the most significant cognitive disabilities.
2018-2019 LEA Alternative Participation Assurances
Alabama Alternative Assessment 2017-2018 State Participation Rate
Alabama Alternative Assessment 2016-2017 State Participation Rate
District IQ and IDEA Worksheet
1% Threshold District Student Information Worksheet
1% Threshold School Student Information Worksheet
Exceeding the 1% Threshold Justification Form 2018-2019
School IQ and IDEA Worksheet