STC/AzMERIT – Th
ASCUS General Session
February 13, 2015
Lori Ventura
AELAS Outreach Manager
AzMERIT Overview
• Arizona’s new statewide achievement test
– Spring 2014 was last administration of AIMS for reading,
writing and mathematics
– Aligns to new ELA and math standards adopted in 2010
– Measures whether students are on track for college and/or
career upon graduation from high school
• Still in place
– High school students graduating AFTER December 31, 2016
will not be required to pass AIMS to graduate
– AZ Science standards did not change, so students will in
Grades 4, 8 and high school will still take AIMS Science
AzMERIT Overview
• Arizona public school students grades 3 – high
school
– Students in grades 3 – 8 will take grade level AzMERIT
test for English and math
– Students taking a high school level English and math
will take End-of-Course (EOC) assessments
• Middle school students enrolled in high school level course
work will take both their grade level AzMERIT tests and the
appropriate EOC test
– Grade 8 and Algebra I
Testing administration
• EOC Tests
– EOC Math (Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II)
– ELA (ELA 9, ELA 10, ELA 11)
• Computer-based or paper-based
• Windows
– Computer-based – March 30 - May 8, 2015
– Paper-based – April 13 – 24, 2015
• District Test Coordinators (DTC) are communicated
with from Assessment division on a weekly basis
STC/AzMERIT – The Connection
• STC data is the only source of course information
collected by ADE and AzMERIT includes EOC
assessments
• ADE is capitalizing on this submission and using it
to lessen the load on DTCs to order testing
materials
Student File
Initial
Intermediate
Final
LEA deadline for SAIS and STC
January 15, 2015
February 11, 2015
February 25, 2015
Date visible in TIDE
January 28, 2015
February 17, 2015
March 2, 2015
STC/AzMERIT – The Connection
• Pesky rule 727 & code mapping changes
– Need to change a course code to ensure EOC course
materials are ordered?
• No problem - Warning issued instead of error
• 100th day date ranges
– To provide the most up-to-date information to TIDE,
consider pulling a date range from day 41 – “today’s
date”
– Count this as 100th day STC submission
– EOY STC date range should be “today’s date” – EOY date
AzMERIT Checklist from STC
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Curriculum/Assessment coordinator(s) should view the EOC course mappings by
downloading the 9 – 12 AZ State Course Catalog, (available on ADE’s website)
– The AZ state course catalog course descriptions have been updated to include the
statement “This course is mapped to End-of-Course assessment XXXX.”
STC coordinator should run a 100th-day STC report from the Student Information System
(SIS) and provide these files to the Curriculum/Assessment coordinator(s).
– Note: to ensure that the most up to date information is presented, consider pulling
an STC 100th day that extends beyond the 100th day. You will not be required to
redo a 100th day STC report for the sake of 100th day report.
Curriculum/Assessment coordinator should make any changes to current course
mappings to ensure the right test is administered to the right student. These changes
should be made available to the STC coordinator.
Once the STC coordinator has received final confirmation from Curriculum/Assessment
coordinator, please submit and certify the new 100th day STC file within SRM.
ADE will pull STC data to create the AzMERIT student registrations for EOC testing.
Assessment coordinator will be able to view AzMERIT student registrations in TIDE, the
computer system that supports the AzMERIT test.
AzMERIT Portal
• Working with Student Information
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Retrieving student records
Viewing and editing students
Adding students
Moving students between schools
Adding, editing and submitting students thru file
uploads
• Let’s check it out…
http://azmeritportal.org/
The future of STC and AzMERIT
• Goal is to not create another submission
“opportunity” for LEAs
– STC will roll into AzEDS, thus ADE will already have data
for TIDE application
– Coordination of submission requirements will be
effectively communicated in a timely manner
• State course catalog will undergo changes to
adapt to the new standards and testing
requirements
100th day STC status
• 73% have certified a 100th day file!
• 77% of top 100 high school LEAs by student
population have certified a 100th day file!
Thank you
Lori.ventura@azed.gov
AELAS@azed.gov
www.azed.gov/aelas
602-364-2345