Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

Assessment / Testing

The Office of Curriculum, Technology and Assessment provides technical advice on testing issues, test interpretation and guidance for the implementation of the state testing program.

• ACCESS/W-APT (ELL Testing Information)
• Achievement Series
• ACT - The ACT is one of two commonly used college entrance exams. It includes four subject-area tests in English, math, reading and science. The ACT is scored on a scale of 1 to 36. Click the link below for South Dakota's composite scores.
  
  
  • 2008 ACT Scores (by district)
    
  • 2007 ACT Scores (by district)
  • 2006 ACT Scores (by district)
  • 2005 ACT Scores (by district)
    
    
• Alternate Assessment
• AMO's can be found on page 18 at: www.doe.sd.gov/nclb/docs/Workbook 2007 final.pdf
• Assessment Terminology Brochure
• DACS - Dakota Assessment of Content Standards
• Dakota Step
• End of Course Exams
• Home Language Survey Questions
• NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress
  • Upcoming NAEP Activities
• Overview of the South Dakota Assessment System
• Dakota Writing Assessment (Stanford 9)
• Stanford 10 Abbreviated
• Instructions For Preparing and Shipping for SAT10.
  • Home school order form
• State Assessment All Grades
• State Assessment Report

January 2009 DSTEP-Alt and ACCESS Testing Coordinator’s Workshop:

• Pearson's Dakota STEP Alt- information
• Pearson's SchoolHouse presentation
• Pearson's SchoolHouse Users Guide
• MetriTech's ACCESS presentation
• STEP-A Training PowerPoint 2009
• Practice Scoring PowerPoint 2009 (This PowerPoint is located on the secure anchor sets page.)