Alaska Developmental Profile Information

AK STAR Fact Sheet

Alaska Developmental Profile

 NAEP Assessment

2023-2024 Assessment Calendar

Amplify for Families

Standardized and classroom assessments provide students, teachers, and parents with information about how well a student is learning essential knowledge and skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and science. Data from these assessments also help teachers and administrators identify students who would benefit from additional or different learning opportunities, improve classroom instruction for students, identify areas of focus for school and district improvement efforts, and monitor progress toward the district goal of increasing academic achievement for every student.

The Alaska System of Academic Readiness is Alaska’s innovative assessment system. The AK STAR System connects MAP Growth interim assessments with the end-of-the-year AK STAR summative assessment for English language arts (ELA) and mathematics.

AK STAR intends to:

• produce more actionable data for teaching and learning

• recognize and celebrate students’ academic progress

• create a more efficient testing experience, thus maximizing classroom instruction time, capitalize on useful tools like MAP Growth, and

• streamline the student testing experience by reducing the number of tests students take to MAP Growth in fall and winter, and the AK STAR summative in spring (beginning in Spring 2023)