Alabama | No | - | - |
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Alaska | Yes | 2021 | No |
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Arizona | Yes | 2020 | No | |
Arkansas | No | - | - | We are working with the Center for Assessment to develop science competencies for assessment and eventually performance tasks. |
California | Yes | 2019 | Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Kentucky, and other CCSSO member states | California Science Test (CAST) will be operational in 2019 and California Alternate Assessment (CAA) for Science will be operational in 2020. We have been sharing item development ideas with Washington State. |
Colorado | No | - | - | |
Connecticut | Yes | 2018-2019 | WA, UT, HI, WV | CT plans to administer NGSS-aligned assessments in spring 2019. |
Delaware | Yes | 2019 | No | We are working to develop an assessment SYSTEM not a single assessment as has been done in the past. This is still in development stage. |
District of Columbia | Yes | 2019 | No | Currently planning on the development of a new science assessment system. |
Florida | No | - | - | No current plans to develop new state Science assessments. |
Georgia | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
Hawaii | Yes | 2019 | DE, CT, OR, WA, WV, others to some extent | Test and item specifications being developed; blueprints to be developed within the coming year. |
Idaho | Yes | 2021 | CT, UT, HA, RI, OR, WV, WY, VT | |
Illinois | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
Indiana | Yes | 2019 | No | |
Iowa | Yes | 2019 | No | In March 2018, the Iowa legislature determined that state tests for ELA, math, and science will be developed by Iowa Testing Programs and administered by a vendor of their choice. These new assessments will be administered for the first time in spring of 2019. |
Kansas | Yes | 2017 | Not reported | Continual improvements to the 2017 assessment created for our 2013 Kansas Curricular Standards for Science Education. |
Kentucky | Yes | 2018 | No | We are using a system of science assessments to include classroom-embedded, through-course and state summative, as defined the BOTA report. The statewide science assessments at grade 4 and 7 were operational in spring 2018 with a field test administered at high school. The statewide science assessment for high school is scheduled to be operational in spring 2019. |
Louisiana | Yes | 2019 | No | [In reference to collaboration with other states:] We are collaborating in the thinking of science assessment design. Nothing further at this time. |
Maine | Yes | 2021 | No | We have had some discussions with RI, NH, VT, but will likely not collaborate out of the gate. We have a long-standing and positive rapport with Measured Progress and have been creating some NGSS-like items for several years now. This year (2017) some NGSS clusters will field test. |
Maryland | Yes | 2019 | No | 2018 was a field test year for our high school science assessment. |
Massachusetts | Yes | Not reported | No | Grade 5 and 8: April-May 2019; Tentative High School date: June 2020 |
Michigan | Yes | 2020 | No | |
Minnesota | Yes | 2022 | No | |
Mississippi | Yes | 2018 | No | |
Missouri | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
Montana | Yes | 2021 | Nebraska, Wyoming | We are a member state of SCILLSS. |
Nebraska | Yes | 2021 | EAG with Wyoming and Montana; SCASS states (MI in particular) | Working on system of assessments. |
Nevada | Yes | 2017 | No | |
New Hampshire | Yes | 2019 | We were...but are now issuing our own RFP | We include the science in with math and ELA. |
New Jersey | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
New Mexico | Yes | 2020 | We are talking with many states, including Louisiana, Rhode Island, and Kentucky | |
New York | No | - | - | Plans for new assessments are not yet finalized. |
North Carolina | No | - | - | |
North Dakota | Yes | 2020 | No | |
Ohio | No | - | - | State assessments will be realigned to revised standards when they are adopted by our State Board of Education. |
Oklahoma | Yes | 2017 | No | 2017-2018 Grade 11 CCRA was a field test that incorporated physical science and life science standards for the first time in Oklahoma. Cluster based format assessing individual performance expectations, some technology enhanced items and paired multiple choice items are used. |
Oregon | Yes | 2019 | WV, RI, VT, UT, HI, WY, CT, ID | The 2018-2019 Science Assessment is currently scheduled to be an operational field test. |
Pennsylvania | No | - | - | |
Rhode Island | Yes | 2019 | CT, HI, ID, OR, UT, VT,WV, WY | |
South Carolina | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
South Dakota | Yes | 2019 | No | This assessment phases in items that align with our transitional blue prints. |
Tennessee | Yes | 2018 | We are part of the SPA-LC learning collaborative through CCSSO. | We will be field testing in all grades in 2018-19 and be operational in 2019-20 |
Texas | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | |
Utah | Yes | 2020 | CT, WV, HI, VT, RI, OR, ID, WY | Utah has developed cluster based assessment for grades 6 - 8. The collaborating states are part of a cluster sharing agreement and we work together to make sure our clusters can be shared and aligned to each states' standards. |
Vermont | Yes | 2018 | Rhode Island | Test is being field tested |
Virginia | Yes | 2022 | No | |
Washington | Yes | 2018 | West Virginia, Hawaii, Connecticut | WA plans to administer comprehensive science assessments in Grade 5 (3-5 band of standards), Grade 8 (middle school band of standards) and High School (high school band of standards). |
West Virginia | No | - | Hawaii, Washington, Connecticut, Utah, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, Oregon | |
Wisconsin | Yes | 2019 | No | The transition to a new state science assessment is a gradual process with new items being field tested each year. By 2019 we expect to have all items on the exam aligned to the new standards. |
Wyoming | Yes | 2021 | CT, HI, ID, NH, OR, RI, UT, VT, WV | |