Education
AIMS
Description: Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test is an assessment that measures whether or not a student is meeting academic content standards developed by the state of Arizona. Beginning in 2000, three core subject areas were assessed: mathematics, reading, and writing. Starting in school year 2007-08 science was added to the test in grades 4, 8 and 10. There are four performance levels for the AIMS: Falls Far Below the Standards (FFB); Approaches the Standards (A); Meets the Standards (M), and Exceeds the Standards (E). Students must pass writing, reading, and mathematics content areas of AIMS HS to graduate from high school (meet or exceed in each area), but science is not included in the graduation requirement. Beginning with the class of 2006, students were given the option to use high school grades to augment their AIMS scores in order to graduate.
Data Source: Arizona Department of Education http://www.ade.az.gov/AIMS/students.asp
