Skip to content Dates when State Assessments will be administered may be located on the campus Parent Calendars (linked below).
Test given to students in the Dual Language Immersion program to check their proficiency of the target language.
An assessment that measures postsecondary readiness. The state-administered ACT includes English, reading, mathematics, science subtests.
A brief literacy test, given 3 times during the school year (Beginning, Middle, End).
A rubric based literacy skills test for students with significant cognitive disabilities, given 3 times during the school year (Beginning, Middle, End).
A brief numeracy test, given 3 times during the school year (Beginning, Middle, End).
A rubric based mathematics skills test for students with significant cognitive disabilities, given 3 times during the school year (Beginning, Middle, End).
Competency-based tests given to students when they complete a course in Career and Technical Education. Required for certification.
Tests given at the end of the school year to students with significant cognitive disabilities to measure proficiency on the Alternate Achievement Standards (Essential Elements/Extended Core Science Standards) and school accountability.
Tests given to students when they complete the General Financial Literacy course.
A locally administered civics exam with questions from the U.S. immigration and naturalization test. Students need to correctly answer 35 out of 50 questions (alternate option available for students with disabilities).
Required for graduation.
Tests given at the end of a course to measure students’ proficiency on Utah Core Standards and school accountability
Optional tests that schools may choose to give to check students’ proficiency before a course is completed. Similar to the RISE Summative assessments in length.
Optional productivity tools for teachers to use to help them get feedback on students’ learning of the Utah Core Standards at the Reporting Category level. These tools have approximately 8-13 questions.
Tests given at the end of the school year for all 9th and 10th graders, that include a combination of test questions from ACT Aspire and Utah’s item bank.
Optional productivity tools for teachers to use to help them get feedback on students’ learning of the Utah Core Standards at the Reporting Category level. These tools have approximately 8-13 questions.
Utah is a member state of the WIDA Consortium. WIDA advances academic language development and academic achievement for children and youth who are culturally and linguistically diverse through high-quality WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards, assessments, research, and professional learning for educators. Utah uses WIDA Screener for Kindergarten and WIDA Screener Online (Grades 1-12) to identify English Learners (ELs). ACCESS for English Language Learners (ELLs) is given to all EL students during the annual testing window to measure proficiency and growth toward academic language proficiency in English.
