Release of spring 2025 Ohio's State Tests and AASCD Test Items

8/5/2025

Ohio’s State Tests and Alternative Assessment for Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities are now available on the practice test site

The Practice Test Site is now updated with spring 2025 Ohio’s State Tests (OST) and Alternate Assessment for Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities (AASCD) released items. Item Release Scoring Guides for the OST test items and the AASCD test items are also available on the test portal.

Each of the scoring guides contains associated learning standards, answer keys, scoring rubrics, sample student responses, and notes on scoring with rationales that describe why response options are correct or incorrect. In addition, the scoring guides contain information about Depth of Knowledge (DOK) for mathematics, English language arts and social studies, Cognitive Demand (CD) for science, and Complexity Levels for AASCD. Released items from the spring 2025 test administration have also been added to the Assessment Authoring platform.

See the special back-to-school supplement edition of the Test Coordinator News for information about other new test portal and system enhancements for this school year.

Direct questions about the released test item materials and system enhancements to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's Office of Assessment at statetests@education.ohio.gov.