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Understanding Your ACT Aspire Summative Results

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Understanding Your ACT Aspire Summative Results in Three Quick Steps

Your ACT? Aspire? student score report contains a lot of information about your skills that can help answer three important questions about you and your future.

1. Where do I stand right now? ACT Aspire shows your strengths and weaknesses in up to five subject areas: English, mathematics, reading, science, and writing. You can also see how you are doing in combined subject areas such as English Language Arts (ELA) and Science, Technology,Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Your report also shows how you performed in specific skill areas within each subject. Finally, you can see how your scores compare to those of other students who have taken ACT Aspire.

2. How can I make goals for the future? The scores you achieved on the ACT Aspire test(s) can help you decide what to do next. Looking at particular areas of strength and weakness can help you determine where you need help and where you may need to be challenged. This information can help you plan coursework and set goals.

3. Am I on target for college and a career? For most students, reaching their goals includes getting a college education. Preparing for college or workplace training means having access to quality instruction and putting forth your best effort. Your ACT Aspire score report references ACT Readiness Benchmarks, ACT Readiness Ranges, and, if you are in eighth grade or above, a Progress Toward Career Readiness indicator.

This guide will help you understand the information on your ACT Aspire student score report and how it can help you.

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What Your Scores Mean

For each of the four subject tests you took (English, reading, science, and mathematics) you will see a three-digit score. Just like your teachers turn your quizzes and test scores into grades, ACT Aspire takes the number of points you got right on each test and translates it into a score on the ACT Aspire scale.

Your score for each subject will fall into one of four levels: Exceeding, Ready, Close, or In Need of Support. The level your score falls into indicates how you did in meeting certain standards. Students with scores in the Exceeding or Ready levels are also classified as meeting the ACT Readiness Benchmarks. Your score for the combined scores (ELA and STEM) will fall into one of the two levels: Meets Benchmark and Below Benchmark. Table 1 shows the ACT Readiness Benchmarks for all grades and subjects. Students who score at or above these benchmarks are on target for college readiness when they take the ACT? test in eleventh grade.

Table 1. ACT Readiness Benchmarks

Tested Grade

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

English

413 417 419 420 421 422 426 428

Reading Mathematics Science

415

413

418

417

416

420

420

418

422

421

420

423

423

422

425

424

425

427

425

428

430

428

432

432

ELA

419 422 424 426 426 427 428 430

STEM

420 422 425 428 430 433 435 437

More specific information about how you performed in each subject is also available in the form of skill scores. Several skills (also called reporting categories) are measured for each subject. The score report includes the percent and number of points earned out of the total number of points possible in each skill. Student performance in each skill is also compared to an ACT Readiness Range, which indicates whether you appear to be on target or may need help.

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What Your Scores Mean

Student information

STUDENT NAME (ID#: XXXXX) Assessed: Sep 30, 2019 - Nov 22, 2019 HIGH SCHOOL (Code: XXX) Grade: 9

Subject, scale score, and readiness level

Report title Summative Student Report

ACT Aspire Composite Score

428 Your ACT Aspire Composite Score is

(Composite score is the average of your English, Reading, Science, and Math scores)

ENGLISH 436

460

EXCEEDING

READING 425 ELA 430* SCIENCE 423

READY

READY

IN NEED OF SUPPORT

MATH 427 STEM 425*

CLOSE

BELOW READY

450

440

436

Ready

430

Below

430

425

Ready

Below

423

427

Ready 425

STEM info

Longitudinal

Ready

progress graph

420

410

Report key and definitions

400 Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

9

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

ACT Readiness Benchmark

National Average

426

425

428

430

428

429

422

426

425

* Your ELA score represents your overall performance on the English, Reading, and Writing Tests.

Your STEM score represents your overall performance on the Science and Math Tests.

9 435

Exceeding Ready Close In Need of Support

ACT Readiness Benchmark: Students who score at or above the benchmark are on target to meet ACT College

Readiness Benchmark when they are in 11th grade.

Predicted Path: A projection of where scores will fall based

upon expected growth rates.

National Average: The mean score of all students

in the norm group.

ELA info

Your Predicted PreACT Composite Score Range is 17-21

The prediction assumes you take the PreACT in 10th grade and assumes typical growth in achievement.

17-21

COMPOSITE

17-23 ENGLISH

17-23 READING

14-20 SCIENCE

16-20 MATH

Predicted score ranges

Your Predicted ACT Composite Score Range is 19-22

The prediction assumes you take the ACT in 11th grade and assumes typical growth in achievement.

19-22

COMPOSITE

20-25 ENGLISH

18-23 READING

15-20 SCIENCE

17-21 MATH

SCALE SCORE RANGE

Test scores are estimates of your educational development. Think of your true achievement on this test as being likely within the Score Range.

SUBJECT

Composite English Reading ELA Science Math STEM

RANGE

426 - 430 432 - 440 422 - 428 428 - 432 420 - 426 424 - 430 423 - 427

Scale Score Range

Progress Toward Career Readiness

PROGRESS TOWARD CAREER READINESS

Progress Toward Career Readiness is an early indicator of your future level of achievement on the ACT National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). The ACT NCRC is an assessment-based credential that documents foundational work skills important for job success across industries and occupations.

Bronze

Silver Gold

Platinum

428

400

452

Students with this ACT Aspire Composite score are likely to obtain a Silver level on the ACT NCRC in 11th grade.

PROGRESS WITH TEXT COMPLEXITY

Below Proficient

Proficient

?

Students must read and understand increasingly complex texts to prepare for the reading demands of college and career. Examples of factors that contribute to text complexity are vocabulary level, sentence structure, and rhetorical structure. The reading test measures progress with text complexity by assessing understanding of texts from a range of complexity levels.

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Figure 1. ACT Aspire Individual Student Report, page 1

Figure 1 shows individual student score information.

YOUR NATIONAL PERCENTILE RANK

Composite English Reading ELA Science Math STEM

61st 75th 61st 67th 42nd 62nd 51st

Your National Percentile Rank

Progress with Text Complexity

3

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