ACT Aspire
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Product Details
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ACT Aspire is a longitudinal summative and periodic assessment system for grades 3–10 designed to measure progress toward college and career readiness in English, mathematics, reading, science, and writing. It uses vertically articulated score reporting connected to ACT readiness constructs.
Schools or state programs may use Aspire for benchmark, program, growth, and readiness information; the exact available components, administration model, and current purchasing geography should be confirmed with ACT. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.
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Standardized administration
- Uses defined forms, directions, timing, scoring, norms, standards, or performance levels for comparable results.
- Administration requirements, accessibility supports, and score uses vary by assessment.
Results and governance- Provides individual and aggregate reports for placement, monitoring, readiness, or program decisions.
- Districts should apply qualification, security, consent, retention, and multiple-measures requirements.
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The goal of Aspire is to identify learning gaps early on to help students stay on track for college readiness, while also preparing students for the content on the ACT. To do that, Aspire will also track college readiness using the ACT’s benchmarks. The Aspire has five sections that align with the ACT Plus Writing subject areas: Reading, English, Math, Science, and Writing. Aspire includes a wide variety of question types. Aspire questions can be multiple choice, short answer, or long answer (including essays and narratives). The questions also make students rearrange lists, correct math problems, or pick multiple answers from a set of choices. So even though the content is similar to the ACT's, the Aspire as a test is quite different.
The goal of Aspire is to identify learning gaps early on to help students stay on track for college readiness, while also preparing students for the content on the ACT. To do that, Aspire will also track college readiness using the ACT’s benchmarks.
The Aspire has five sections that align with the ACT Plus Writing subject areas: Reading, English, Math, Science, and Writing. Aspire includes a wide variety of question types. Aspire questions can be multiple choice, short answer, or long answer (including essays and narratives). The questions also make students rearrange lists, correct math problems, or pick multiple answers from a set of choices. So even though the content is similar to the ACT's, the Aspire as a test is quite different.
The ACT still uses those scores to predict future ACT scores, based on when you took the test. For example, they would predict a higher future ACT score if an 8th grader earned a 410 versus a 10th grader, since an 8th grader has more time to learn and improve. However, the prediction is less straightforward than just adding a few ACT composite points. Furthermore, since the Aspire is so different, the prediction is not at all set in stone. (See Aspire to ACT Score Predictions article for more on Aspire scoring and ACT predictions.)
The Aspire has five sections that align with the ACT Plus Writing subject areas: Reading, English, Math, Science, and Writing. Aspire includes a wide variety of question types. Aspire questions can be multiple choice, short answer, or long answer (including essays and narratives). The questions also make students rearrange lists, correct math problems, or pick multiple answers from a set of choices. So even though the content is similar to the ACT's, the Aspire as a test is quite different.
The ACT still uses those scores to predict future ACT scores, based on when you took the test. For example, they would predict a higher future ACT score if an 8th grader earned a 410 versus a 10th grader, since an 8th grader has more time to learn and improve. However, the prediction is less straightforward than just adding a few ACT composite points. Furthermore, since the Aspire is so different, the prediction is not at all set in stone. (See Aspire to ACT Score Predictions article for more on Aspire scoring and ACT predictions.)
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