ACCESS is a large-scale English language proficiency assessment administered to students in kindergarten through twelth grade who have been identified as English learners (ELs). It is given annually to monitor students' progress in acquiring academic English. ACCESS is aligned with the WIDA English Language Development Standards and assesses each of the four language domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

The ACT measures what was learned in high school to determine students' academic readiness for college; the ACT is used for college admission.

ACT WorkKeys is used to measure foundational skills required for success in the workplace, particularly those skills that may imact job performance.

The ASVAB is a timed, multi-aptitude test and is developed and maintained by the Department of Defense. The test is voluntary to take and the scores are in four critical areas: arithmetic reasoning, word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, and mathematics knowledge. The ASVAB counts toward an Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) score, which determines if a student is qualified to enlist in the military.

CogAT measures reasoning and problem-solving skills in three different areas: verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal. Reasoning skills develop gradually throughout a person’s lifetime and at different rates for different individuals. CogAT does not measure such factors as effort, attention, motivation, or work habits, which also contribute to school achievement. This screening tool is used to identify students that need further testing for possible placement in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program.

FAST Bridge is a series of short, one-minute assessments on reading and math. Different sub-tests are given at different grade levels.

For reading, kindergarten and first grade are assessed on early reading skills (concepts of print, letter naming, letter sound, word segmenting, decodable word and sight words). First through fifth grade are evaluated on oral reading fluency (number of words correctly read in one minute). 

For math, kindergarten and first grade are assessed on early math skills (number sequence, match quantity, number identification, decomposing). First through fifth grade are evaluated on math computation skills and third through fifth grade are further asssed on math concepts and applications.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. NAEP provides results on subject-matter achievement, instructional experiences, and school environment for populations of students (e.g., all fourth-graders) and groups within those populations (e.g., female students, Hispanic students). NAEP does not provide scores for individual students or schools.

The North Dakota State Assessment (NDSA) is the statewide assessment that measures student performance against the state’s challenging content and achievement standards in reading and mathematics. The NDSA consists of general, criterion-referenced assessments and is an online computer assessment.

The North Dakota State Assessment (NDSA), the statewide assessments that measure student performance against the state’s challenging content and achievement standards in reading and mathematics. The NDSA consists of general, criterion-referenced assessments and is a paper pencil assessment.

The Preliminary SAT (PSAT) does not count towards college admissions applications, but it is the qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship. This is a voluntary assessment that can be used as practice for the SAT and/or ACT. The test is two hours and forty-fives minutes in length and assesses math and evidence-based reading and writing.

Star assessments are short tests that provide teachers with learning data. They are computer adaptive, which means they adjust to each answer provided by a student. This allows teachers to receive the most accurate student data in a short testing time. Early literacy questions focus on print concepts, phonemic awareness, phonics and word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, counting and cardinality, operations and algebraic thinking, and measurement data.

Star assessments are short tests that provide teachers with learning data. They are computer adaptive, which means they adjust to each answer provided by a student. This allows teachers to receive the most accurate student data in a short testing time. Math questions focus on counting, operations and algebraic thinking, ratios, and reasoning.

Star assessments are short tests that provide teachers with learning data. They are computer adaptive, which means they adjust to each answer provided by a student. This allows teachers to receive the most accurate student data in a short testing time. Reading questions focus on foundational skills, reading literature, informational text, and language.