Each year students in our Catholic Schools and Religious Education Programs are required to participate in ARK.
ARK is Assessment for Religious Knowledge and is the testing resource for all students in our Catholic Schools and Religious Education Programs. ARK is administered to kids in grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.
ARK is administered during the Spring testing window, usually between March - May of each year.
All students in the above grades must be rostered on the ARK platform before testing can begin. Most students can be tested online; however, for an additional cost, students can be tested using paper/pencil.
To begin the process go to info@arktest.org or call them at 888-985-1324. Let them know you are a parish/school of the Archdiocese and you are the contact person for ARK.
The cost for the testing is $3.60 per student. If you do paper/pencil testing, it costs an additional $3.00 per student. You will test students in grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.
See the links below for further information from ARK:
1.Roster Students
2.Roster Teachers
3.Create Classes
4.Assign Students to Classes
5.Duplicate Classes as Testing Sections
Each step above contains a link to detailed instructions, and you can find more information here:Administrative Rostering.
For questions please contact ARK directly info@arktest.org or call them at 888-985-1324.
For help reading and interpreting various reports, check out the reporting section of our knowledge base: ARK Reporting
Center Administrator Reports Dashboard
The center admin Reports page is your starting place for analyzing ARK scores. This report will include average and aggregate scores from your whole school or parish, as well as student and faculty snapshots. To access, login to your ARK Center Admin account and go to Reports. You can find tips and guidance on reading this report here: Center Administrator Reports.
Classroom reports provide averages and aggregates based on each class in ARK. To view your class dashboards, follow these steps:
1. Go to the Classes menu.
2. For any class that is complete, click on the three dot menu
3. In the drop-down menu, select View Class Dashboard:
Teachers will follow the same approach, but can view their assigned classes by either clicking on the Reports menu or going to Classes and selecting the same three-dot menu and View Class Dashboard option.
From either the center admin Reports page or the Classroom Dashboard, individual student reports are available. Simply click the name of the student whose report you wish to view.
You can also go to Students and use the three-dot menu to find and view a specific student's report quickly.
To bulk export scores or examine specific data sets (such as scores for a specific domain, topic, grade level, demographic etc.) go to the Report Analyzer and select either Students, Topics, or Domains. From each of these categories, you can apply a filter and export scores as a csv.
