Designed to assist school jurisdictions in interpreting their achievement test results, this report describes the achievement testing program in Alberta, Canada, and indicates the conditions for student exemption from testing. It explains the Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement Test design and development, gives a description of the test itself, reports on its administration and scoring, and provides a guide to the interpretation of jurisdiction results. Scoring guides for the expressive writing section of the test define the various levels of performance on content, development, sentence structure, vocabulary, and conventions. Tables provide blueprints for the writing and reading sections of the test, distributions of scores, question response frequencies, and distribution of jurisdiction levels. A sample score sheet is also included. (SRT)