PreACT Secure: Wisconsin
Important Dates
Your Schedule of Events contains all dates and deadlines for your test event. Check it frequently to ensure you're on track for a successful administration.
- Testing Window: March 18 - April 26, 2024 (weekday testing only)
- Material Ordering Window: February 26 - April 5, 2024
- Answer Document Return Deadline: May 10, 2024
Documents will be replaced as they become available for spring 2024 testing.
Learn about Test Formats and Policies
Resources:
Select Test Staff and Set Up Accounts
Websites:
Resources:
- Test Coordinator Information Manual, Staff Requirements, Roles, and Responsibilities - (web content)
- PearsonAccessnext User Guide, Managing Contact and User Account Information section (manual section) (web content)
Tip: When the district test coordinator changes the school test coordinator in PearsonAccessnext, remember to deactivate the existing test coordinator's user account. Updates need to be completed in two places: the manage contacts screen and creating a new user account.
Verify Enrollment Counts
Dates:
January 29 - April 25, 2024
Websites:
Resources:
- PearsonAccessnext User Guide, Managing Test Materials, Accessing Reports, and Submit a Request to Enroll or Unenroll an Examinee sections (manual sections) (web content)
- PearsonAccessnext Operational Reports Layout (pdf)
Complete Site Readiness for Online Testing
Dates:
January 29 - April 26, 2024
Websites:
Resources:
- Technical Coordinator Checklist (pdf)
- Technical Requirements for the PreACT Secure Test Taken Online (web content)
- PreACT Secure Online Technical Guide (web content)
- Mock Administration Guide (web content)
- PreACT Secure Technical Readiness Training (webinar)
- PreACT Secure Technical Readiness Training (pdf)
- Wisconsin Proctor Caching Policy (pdf)
ACT Online Technical Readiness Training Tutorials
- PreACT Secure Online Technical Readiness 1: Overview (video)
- PreACT Secure Online Technical Readiness 2: TestNav (video)
- PreACT Secure Online Technical Readiness 3: Mock Administration (video)
Learn about Accessibility Supports
Resources:
- Accessibility Supports Guide for PreACT Secure (web content)
- FAQ Sunsetting English Braille American Edition (pdf)
Set Up Accommodations and/or English Learner (EL) Supports in PearsonAccessnext
Dates:
January 29 - April 5, 2024
Website:
Resources:
- PreACT Secure Online Administration Manual, Testing with Accessibility Supports section (web content)
- PreACT Secure Paper Administration Manual, Testing with Accessibility Supports section (web content)
- PearsonAccessnext User Guide, Assigning Accommodations and Supports section (web content)
- Student Personal Needs Profile File Layout (pdf)
Tip: Administering PreACT Secure with accommodations or English learner supports does not require prior approval from ACT. You will order alternate format test materials for English learners through PearsonAccessnext
Order Test Materials
Dates:
February 26 - April 5, 2024
Websites:
Resources:
- PearsonAccessnext User Guide, Managing Test Materials section - manual section (web content)
- Address Change Request Form (webform)
Tip: You can track test materials shipments using Orders & Shipment Tracking. See the View Status and Shipment Information section in the PearsonAccessnext User Guide.
Provide Examinees Test Prep Information
Websites:
- Information for Examinees (act.org)
Resources:
- Preparing for the PreACT Secure (pdf)
- Taking the PreACT Secure (pdf)
- TestNav Practice Tests (includes TestNav Tutorial)
- PreACT Secure Paper Practice Test (pdf)
- Practice Test Scoring Guide (pdf)
Tip: TestNav Practice Tests can be found on the TestNav Site without logging in by clicking on the "practice Tests" link at the bottom of the sign in window.
Prepare Your Facility, Staff, and Test Materials
Resources:
- PreACT Secure Test Coordinator Information Manual, Test Facilities section (web content)
- PreACT Secure Test Coordinator Information Manual, Test Staff section (web content)
- PreACT Secure Test Coordinator Information Manual, Test Materials section (web content)
- PreACT Secure Online Administration Manual, Test Administration section (web content)
- Instructions for Completing Your Answer Document (pdf)
Training:
- PreACT Secure Test Administration #1 (webinar)
- PreACT Secure Test Administration #1 slides (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Test Administration #2 (webinar)
- PreACT Secure Test Administration #2 slides (pdf)
Update Examinee Information
Dates:
January 29 - April 25, 2024
Website:
Resource:
Create Online Test Sessions
Dates:
January 26 - April 26, 2024
Websites:
Resources:
Administer the Test
Testing Dates:
March 18 - April 26, 2024 (weekday testing only)
Resources:
Forms
- PreACT Secure Test Administration Form - Accommodations Paper (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Test Administration Form - Online Standard Time (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Test Administration Form - Online Accommodations (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Readers Agreement Form (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Sign Language Interpreter's Agreement Form (pdf)
- PreACT Secure Scribe's Agreement Form (pdf)
Administration Manuals
Supplements
Tip: If you are testing an examinee authorized for English learner supports, have the ACT-Authorized Bilingual Word-to-Word Dictionaries list handy to verify at check in that the examinee’s dictionary can be used for testing.
Return Test Materials
Dates:
Receipt Deadline: May 10, 2024
Resources:
- PreACT Secure Test Coordinator Information Manual, Collecting, Packing, and Returning Test Materials section (web content)
- Secure Storage and Transport of Test Materials Form (pdf)
Tip: Do not return unused paper accommodations answer documents from initial testing. Use those for makeup testing and refer to the Test Coordinator Information Manual to properly manage unused materials at the end of the testing window.
Tip: Return answer documents following testing so they arrive at ACT by the receipt deadline listed on the Schedule of Events and can be scored.
Tip: Return all accommodations materials after all testing (accommodated and non-accommodated) has been completed.
Access and Understand Score Reports
Dates:
May 30, 2024
Websites:
Resources:
- PreACT Secure Interpretive Guide for Students and Aggregate Reports (pdf)
- ACT Online Reporting User Guide (pdf)
- ACT Wisconsin Office Hours - Trusted Agent and Online Reporting (pdf)
- ACT Profile Reports - ACT Online Reporting Crosswalk (pdf)
Share Reporting Information with Examinees
Resources: