Acadience Math was designed with efficiency and dependability in mind. You can now track mathematics skills for students in grades K–6 as accurately and easily as you track reading skills.

Acadience Math:

• provides universal screening
• detects when students need extra support
• is sensitive to effects of intervention

Acadience Reading helps teachers identify children at risk for reading difficulties and determine the skills to target for instructional support.

Acadience Reading K–6:

• provides universal screening
• detects when students need extra support
• is sensitive to effects of intervention
• supports the RtI/Multi-tiered model

The ACT is a summative assessment used by postsecondary institutions and employers to measure college and career readiness.

• The ACT, as administered through state-funded testing for all public high school juniors in Utah, consists of four multiple-choice subtests (English, mathematics, reading, and science) and participation in the writing test, as directed by the Utah State Board of Education.
• The development of academic skills necessary to be successful on the ACT extends across all grade levels.  

ACT Information for Students & Parents

The Utah Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) assessment is a statewide alternate assessment designed for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who cannot participate in general state assessments, even with accommodations. It is used to measure what these students know and can do in English language arts, mathematics, and science. 

Key Information for Parents:

• Purpose: DLM assessments offer a way for students with significant cognitive disabilities to demonstrate their learning and progress.
• Target Audience: DLM is for students with an IEP indicating that general state assessments are not appropriate for them.
• Content: DLM assessments are based on the DLM Essential Elements, which are statements of the knowledge and skills expected of students with significant cognitive disabilities. These elements are linked to general education grade-level expectations.
• Benefits: DLM assessments help parents and educators set high academic expectations, inform instruction, document academic growth, and identify student strengths and needs.
• Accessibility: DLM assessments are designed with accessibility in mind, allowing for multiple ways for students to demonstrate their knowledge and using supports like the DLM core vocabulary.
• Assessment Format: DLM assessments are delivered as short, instructionally relevant groups of items called "testlets," which typically take 5 to 15 minutes to complete.
• Resources for Parents:
  • DLM Parent Information (pdf)
  • Parent Interpretive Guide – YE
  • Examples of DLM testlets
• Student Access: Students take the DLM assessments on the Kite® Student Portal, a secure online platform.
• Eligibility: Students are eligible for the DLM assessment if they have a 1% flag checked in their active SCRAM file, indicating they are not eligible for other state assessments.

• Curriculum-based Assessments
• Sensory Processing Questionnaires
• Zones of Regulation Assessments

Individual classroom assessments might include:

• Quizzes
• Essays
• Presentations
• Projects
• Fluency Trackers
• Exit Tickets

• Academic Assessments
• Cognitive Assessments
• Occupational Therapy Assessments
• Speech and Language Assessments
• Behavior Rating Scales

The RISE assessment is a computer adaptive criterion referenced assessment system that includes summative tests for English Language Arts (ELAs), Mathematics, Science, and Writing. The summative tests are scheduled to be delivered to the following grades.

The Utah Aspire Plus assessment is a hybrid of ACT Aspire and Utah Core test items. It is a computer delivered, fixed form end-of-grade-level high school assessment for students in 9 and 10. Utah Aspire Plus includes four subtests:

• Reading
• Mathematics
• Science

Students receive predicted ACT score ranges for each subtest, as well as an overall predicted composite ACT score range. The assessment also provides proficiency scores for end-of-grade-level expectations for 9th and 10th grade students in Reading, Mathematics, and Science.

Utah uses WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA Screener Online (Grades 1-12) to identify English learners (ELs). WIDA Screener Paper is appropriate for recently arrived ELs and students with significant disabilities. WIDA MODEL is allowed for screening (acceptable for LEAs electing to fund this option). ACCESS for ELLs (Grades K-12) is given to all ELs during the annual testing window, which typically lasts from early January through early March. WIDA Alternate ACCESS is available for students with significant cognitive disabilities that qualify for Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM), but this must be determined by the LEA’s language and IEP teams. 

Summative Assessments

What are Summative Assessments?
Classroom summative assessments might include chapter tests, presentations, and/or final projects.

Summative Assessments are used to:

• Evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit
• Compare student learning against a standard or benchmark

Assessments: ACT, DLM, RISE, UtahApire Plus

Formative Assessments

What are Formative Assessments?
Formative Assessments are used during the learning process to provide feedback and guide instruction. They are not typically graded and focus on identifying areas where students need more support or practice, allowing for adjustments to teaching methods. 

Formative Assessments are used to:

• Monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback
• Compare data across grades
• Provide administration and teachers with useful information to make curriculum and instructional decisions
• Provide teachers with information to track progress on IEP goals
• Provide teachers with information to make weekly or bi-weekly decisions about instruction
• Allow students to track their progress

Assessments: Acadience Reading, Acadience Math, Others

Other Assessments

These assessments are given on an ‘as-needed’ basis.

Assessments: WIDA, Academic Assessments, Cognitive Assessments, Occupational Therapy Assessments, Speech and Language Assessments, Behavior Rating Scales