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Knowledge Hub:  An A-Z List of Using Your ACT Results


Knowledge and Skills Map  The ACT Knowledge and Skills Map can be used to learn more about ACT's approach to measuring college and career readiness. Each subject area provides a grade-by-grade overview of knowledge and skills that research suggests a student should master on the path to college and career readiness. For a quick introduction to the ACT Knowledge and Skills Map read ACT Knowledge and Skills - Quick Start Guide.

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Performance Level Descriptors: Performance Level Descriptors outline the knowledge, skills, and practices that students performing at any given level achieve in each content area at each grade level. They indicate if the students are academically prepared to engage successfully in further studies in each content area, the next grade’s material and, eventually at the high school level to verify that they are college and career ready.


ACT Aspire Exemplar Items


ACT Aspire Reporting Resources


Periodic Technical Manual


ACT Building College Readiness Skills