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Prairie State Achievement Examination
The Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) measures student achievement at the high
school level relative to the Illinois Learning Standards. The results give parents, teachers, and
schools one measure of assessing student learning and school performance. Results are used by
the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to measure school and district adequate yearly
progress (AYP) as required by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Results are also used by
Chicago Public Schools to measure school progress under the district Performance
Policy. Additionally, the PSAE is a requirement for a regular high school
diploma.
PSAE is comprised of the ACT, WorkKeys tests in reading and mathematics, and a science test
developed by the Illinois State Board of Education with the assistance of Illinois
teachers. Grade 11 students must take PSAE as part of the graduation requirement in order to
receive a regular high school diploma.
With the exception of students with significant cognitive disabilities that will take the
Illinois Alternate Assessment (IAA),
ALL
students enrolled in a high school program operated by a public school district and
classified at the time of testing as being in grade 11
must take the PSAE,
including LEP students. Grade 11 LEP students take the PSAE
in addition to the ACCESS tests in reading, writing, speaking and listening. More
information is can be found in the document titled
Assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners - Guidance for 2011-2012,
which is available online at
www.isbe.net/assessment and is listed
below.
As with accommodations test materials for students with IEPs or Section 504 Plans,
accommodations materials for LEP students
must be requested by the deadlines listed in the
Checklist of Dates document listed below.
For additional information on PSAE, visit the
Illinois State Board of Education
website.
2012 PSAE Testing Window
The standard-time PSAE will be administered on April 24-25, 2012 to grade
11 students. Make-up testing will take place on May 8-9, 2012. The accommodations
test window will run from April 24-May 8, 2012 for Day 1 tests and and April 25-May 9, 2012
for Day 2 tests.
Ordering 2012 Materials
Schools order 2012 PSAE Day 2 standard time and accommodation test materials by logging
into Pearson’s PSAE TestSites Online website at
http://www.ncsschoolhouse.com. For assistance
with the website, contact Pearson at 1-800-553-2159 between 7:00 am and 5:30 pm central time. A
user ID and password were sent to principals only in late October 2011. Lost user IDs or passwords
may be requested by contacting Pearson or ACT at
PSAE@act.org.
Deadlines for ordering 2012 Day 1 and 2 standard time and accommodations materials can be
found in the
Checklist of Dates document below.
WorkKeys
WorkKeys is a standardized job skills assessment system developed by ACT that measures job
applicants’ applied skills with real world tasks that are common in the workplace.
Two WorkKeys assessments -
Reading for Information and
Applied Mathematics - comprise part of the PSAE Day 2 test administration.
The WorkKeys
Reading for Information test measures the skill people use when they
read and use written text in order to do a job. The written texts include memos, letters,
directions, signs, notices, bulletins, policies, and regulations. The WorkKeys
Applied Mathematics assessment measures the skills people use when they work with
workplace graphics. Examinees are asked to find information in a graphic or insert information into
a graphic, as well as compare, summarize, and analyze information found in related graphics.
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