How instructors use Automotive Student Testing
Here are some practical ways you can incorporate Automotive Student Testing into your weekly curriculum without adding a significant amount of preparation time:
Start Your Week with a Quick Assessment
Use a 10-question ASE Content Area Quiz as a Monday warm-up to see what your students already understand before you begin teaching a new topic.
Create a Simple Weekly Routine
One approach you can use is:
Monday: ASE Content Area Quiz
Tuesday–Thursday: Classroom instruction, terminology, videos, and hands-on activities
Friday: Quiz, practice test, or progress assessment
This gives you a consistent cycle of assess → teach → reinforce → reassess.
Use Quizzes as Bell Work
Assign a short quiz at the beginning of class. Since quizzes are organized by ASE content area, you can choose one that directly matches what you are teaching that week.
Use Quizzes as Exit Tickets
Give your students a 10-question quiz at the end of a lesson or week to see whether they understand the material before you move on.
Identify Knowledge Gaps Early
Use quiz and test results to pinpoint the specific ASE content areas where your students are struggling. This gives you the opportunity to reteach those concepts before small gaps become bigger problems.
Reinforce Your Lessons with Animated Videos
Incorporate our Animated System Videos into your classroom instruction to help students visualize system operation, component interaction, diagnosis, and repair concepts.
Make Electrical Instruction Easier to Understand
Use the Animated Schematic Videos when teaching electrical diagnosis. These can help your students better understand circuit operation and how to trace power, ground, opens, and other electrical conditions.
Build Your Students’ Oscilloscope Skills
Use our Oscilloscope Animations to reinforce concepts such as volts per division, time base, probe settings, waveform interpretation, CAN signals, and other scope fundamentals.
Introduce Key Terminology Before a New Topic
Have your students review Key Terminology before beginning a new ASE content area. You can also use terminology review as homework or reinforcement throughout the week.
Assign Practice Outside the Classroom
Automotive Student Testing is 100% online, so your students can practice from a smartphone, Chromebook, tablet, PC, or Mac at school or at home.
Use Untimed Tests as a Learning Tool
Start your students with Untimed Tests and encourage them to slow down, research unfamiliar concepts, and focus on understanding why an answer is correct.
Transition to Timed Tests as Students Improve
Once your students become more comfortable with the material, move them into Timed Tests to help develop their test-taking pace and prepare them for certification exams.
Benchmark Students Before You Teach a Unit
Give an assessment before instruction begins, then test again later. This allows you to see exactly how much your students have improved.
Use Standardized Tests for Periodic Benchmarks
Incorporate Standardized Tests at key points during the semester to measure overall competency and readiness in an ASE area.
Build ASE Entry-Level Preparation Into the Semester
Instead of waiting until just before certification testing, use ASE-aligned quizzes and assessments throughout the semester. Your students get repeated exposure to ASE-style material while you are teaching the corresponding content.
Let the Results Help Determine What You Teach Next
Instead of guessing which areas need more classroom time, use your students’ quiz and test performance to help guide your next lesson or review session.
Review Your Weekly Progress Reports
Your automated Weekly Progress Reports provide a quick overview of student activity and performance without requiring you to manually compile the information.
Use On-Demand Reports Whenever You Need More Detail
If you want to see how your students are performing between weekly reports, you can generate On-Demand Reports to review recent testing and quiz activity.
Spot Students Who May Be Falling Behind
Use the Snapshot page and threshold indicators to quickly identify low scores, limited activity, unusually fast test attempts, and other patterns that may indicate a student needs additional help.
Use the Data for One-on-One Student Coaching
Sit down with a student and review their quiz and test results together. You can quickly show them which ASE content areas are strong and which areas need more attention.
Allow Stronger Students to Work Ahead
Students who demonstrate competency can continue into additional quizzes, tests, terminology, or certification preparation while you spend more instructional time with students who need it.
Use the System for Homework Without Creating More Assignments
You already have ASE-aligned quizzes, tests, terminology, videos, and other resources available, giving you an easy way to assign additional practice without creating everything yourself.
Combine Online Assessment with Hands-On Shop Work
Use Automotive Student Testing to determine whether your students understand the theory, then use your hands-on activities to determine whether they can apply it. Together, the two give you a much better picture of student competency.
Measure Growth Throughout the Semester
Try not to focus on one individual test score. By using Automotive Student Testing consistently, you can compare early results with later performance and see whether each student is actually progressing.
Make It Part of Your Normal Teaching Routine
You do not need to completely change the way you teach to get value from Automotive Student Testing. The system is designed to complement what you are already doing.
Even using one or two Automotive Student Testing activities each week can help you identify what your students understand, determine what needs additional instruction, track their progress, and better prepare them for ASE Entry-Level Certification.
Instructor and student registration
- AST emails registration PDF top instructor
- Instructor registers with their school email
- Students register and begin accessing all resources
Standardized Tests
Use Standardized Tests when you want controlled-access exams for benchmarking, end-of-unit checks, or end-of-pathway readiness.
- Similar to ASE Entry-Level Certification tests.
- Test all students on the exact same test at the end of a section or term.
- Randomized to prevent students from cheating off their neighbor.
Locating and taking tests and quizzes
- All tests and quizzes are located by selecting the ALL TESTS menu.
- Each test page contains buttons for various tests and quizzes.
- Timed or untimed tests cover an entire ASE area.
- Timed or untimed quizzes cover a single content area of the overall ASE area.
- Students may use any device including smartphones to take tests and quizzes.
- Service is not tied to school network and can be accessed using any wi-fi or cellular connection.
Reporting
Reports help you quickly see who registered, who is participating, where scores are weak, and whether students are rushing through material.
- Our system sends automated reports every Monday morning during your active account period.
- On-demand reports can be initiated from the instructor ACCOUNT page. Select from one of the 5 buttons covering the same day to up to the 5 previous days.
- Each time a report is emailed, it will contain two PDF files. One PDF for Timed tests, and one for Untimed tests.
- Report will always generate an overview page, but will only contain subsequent pages for tests or quizzes taken during the reporting period.
- The report overview page will show all students who have registered their accounts. If a student is missing, they have yet to register their account.
Reporting – Standardized Tests
Standardized Tests on-demand report buttons can be found beneath the regular report buttons on your Account page.
- Standardized Test On-demand reports can be initiated from the instructor ACCOUNT page. Select from one of the 5 buttons covering the same day to up to the 5 previous days.
- Each time a report is emailed, it will contain a single PDF file.
- Report will always generate an overview page, but will only contain subsequent pages for standardized tests during the reporting period.
Locating key terminology
- Key terminology is located on each test page and covers A1-A8, A9 & G1.
Locating animated videos
- Animated videos are located on each test page and currently covers A1, A4, A5 & A6. Other areas coming soon.
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