DATE:
Thursday, August 1, 2024
TO:
Elementary School Administrators
FROM:
Carolyn Gough, Administrator of Teaching and Learning
Ben Jameson, Director of Evaluation, Research and Accountability
SUBJECT:
Summative Testing Changes for 2024-25
Principals are asked to share the following information with their Utah Aspire Plus and RISE tested teachers.
With the change in the ELA core approved by the Utah State Board of Education in recent months, the state’s summative assessments will need to reflect those changes. The changes to RISE are highlighted below:
RISE
- The ELA RISE assessment and the RISE Writing assessment (5th and 8th grades only) will also be revised according to the new ELA core. We do not expect scores for these assessments to be available due to the necessity of a standard setting process. No grade incentive will be possible for the 2024-25 school year for these two assessments, though an incentive may still be used for RISE Math and Science.
- RISE Writing benchmarks will also be suspended for just the 2024-25 school year. USBE is working to field test new RISE Writing benchmarks, but they will not be available until the 2025-26 school year.
- The Listening and Editing benchmarks will be permanently removed from the RISE system beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
For questions about these changes, please contact Ben Jameson in Assessment, Research & Accountability.
