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Research shows that today and in the future, good jobs will require a greater level of knowledge and skills after high school. ACT® Aspire® can help all your learners measure their progress toward the readiness they will need for future success, whether they transition to college or career. ACT Aspire is the first digital, longitudinal assessment system to fully connect student performance with readiness benchmarks from the elementary grades through early high school.
Webb’s Depth of Knowledge was created by Norman Webb from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Webb’s definition of depth of knowledge is the degree or complexity of knowledge that the content curriculum standards and expectations require. Therefore, when reviewing items for depth of knowledge, the item is reviewed to determine whether or not it is as demanding cognitively as what the actual content curriculum standard expects.
Math Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs)
Math Performance Level Descriptors (PLDs)
Performance Level Descriptors outline the knowledge, skills, and practices that students performing at any given level achieve in each content area at each grade level. They indicate if the students are academically prepared to engage successfully in further studies in each content area, the next grade’s material and, eventually at the high school level to verify that they are college and career ready.
Mathematics Depth of Knowledge Resources
Mathematics Depth of Knowledge Resources
According to Norman L. Webb (“Depth of Knowledge Levels for Four Content Areas,” March 28, 2002), interpreting and assigning depth of knowledge levels to both objectives within standards and assessment items is an essential requirement of alignment analysis. Four Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels were developed by Norman Webb as an alignment method to examine the consistency between the cognitive demands of standards and the cognitive demands of assessments.
Aspire Exemplar Test Question Booklets
Aspire Exemplar Test Question Booklets
ACT Aspire has developed a booklet for each grade and subject that defines ACT Aspire reporting categories for each test. These booklets present at least one test question aligned to each of the reporting categories on a given test. Depth of Knowledge level (DOK), a description of the task presented by the test question, and a description of the correct response are also provided, along with Improvement Idea Statements to help students build on their current level of skill and knowledge.
Aspire Exemplar Booklets
Aspire Exemplar Booklets
Student Sandbox
Student Sandbox
(Test Nav8)
(Test Nav8)
The Student Sandbox provides students an opportunity to become familiar not only with ACT Aspire test questions, but also with navigating the TestNav test platform. The Student Sandbox will present at least one test question for each reporting category for a given test.The Student Sandbox should be accessed with a desktop or laptop computer rather than a tablet or smartphone.
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