Assessment

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.

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. ​