Utah Aspire Plus – Grades 9 and 10

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Utah Aspire Plus is a hybrid assessment for 9th- and 10th-grade students created through collaboration with Utah educators, the Utah State Board of Education, and Pearson using ACT Aspire and Utah assessment questions. The use of both ACT Aspire questions and Utah assessment questions allow:

• Alignment to Utah Core Standards and calculation of student growth scores.

Predictive-scoring for Utah’s College and Career Readiness assessment (the ACT)                                                                                                                    ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Utah Aspire Plus Portal

Testing Date:  April 30, 2019

Testing Times:  All tests are timed and must be completed in the allotted time.*

• Math: 90 Minutes
• Science:  60 Minutes
• Reading: 90 Minutes
• English: 45 Minutes

*Tests are not divided into sections. Each test must be completed in one sitting (unless the student has an IEP or 504 accommodation for stop-the-clock breaks or for securely extending the test over multiple days).

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Testing Resources

Test Blueprints:

Math
Science
Reading
English

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Test Administration:

2019 (TAM)

Utah Compose

Utah Compose is a formative writing program. It was created by the same vendor as Utah Write so it has many of the same features including, graphic organizers, prompts with stimulus material, peer review, and the same PEG scoring system.

Utah Compose Guides

• Teacher User Guide
  
• Student User Guide