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Georgia Milestones Grades 3-5 Parent Presentation March 3, 2015 Shandra Harrison, Principal Ashley Bagwell, Assistant Principal Georgia Milestones Georgia Milestones will replace the CRCT and the o 3 rd & 5 th Grade Writing Assessments
Shandra Harrison, Principal Ashley Bagwell, Assistant Principal
Parent Presentation March 3, 2015
3rd & 5th Grade Writing Assessments
assessment.
Math
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referenced and norm-referenced items.
will drop during this testing cycle.
[constructed-response items require hand scoring]
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Will transition to Online Year 1 – 30% Year 3 – 80% Year 5 – 100% Paper/pencil versions will serve as
back-up until transition is complete.
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Selected Response
Constructed Response
Extended Response
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Which fraction is largest?
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A B C D
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12 inches George Ana 9 inches 12 inches George 12 inches Carlos
For this item, the students are asked to read a poem entitled, “Healthy Cookies.” The poem is about a girl whose mom purchased a healthy cookie snack in an attempt to replace the daughter’s preferred sugary cookie. The daughter was initially reluctant to try the healthy cookie, but eventually tasted the new cookie and decided it wasn’t that bad.
ELACC3RL1, ELACC3W2, ELACC3L1 and ELACC3L2
Explain why the speaker believes that the healthy cookies will taste bad. Write your explanation in a paragraph that includes many supporting details from the text.
Answer with complete sentences, and use correct punctuation and grammar.
Score Designation Description
4 Thoroughly Demonstrated The student demonstrates a thorough understanding of the question and the text by completely explaining why the reader expects the healthy cookies to taste bad using details from the poem as support. The student’s response uses complete sentences and correct punctuation and grammar. 3 Clearly Demonstrated The student demonstrates a clear understanding of the question and the text by providing an explanation of why the reader expects the healthy cookies to taste bad and uses some details from the poem as support. The student’s response uses mostly complete sentences and mostly correct punctuation and grammar. 2 Basically Demonstrated The student demonstrates a basic understanding of the question and the text by providing a general explanation about why the speaker expects the healthy cookies to taste bad. However, the student offers little support from the
correct punctuation and grammar. 1 Minimally Demonstrated The student demonstrates a weak understanding of the question and provides a minimal explanation of why the speaker expects the healthy cookies to taste bad OR the student provides no details from the poem for support. The student’s response uses mostly incomplete sentences and mostly incorrect punctuation and grammar. Incorrect or Irrelevant The response is incorrect or irrelevant.
ELA MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES SECTIONS 3 2 2 2 SELECTED RESPONSE 40 50 55 55 CONSTRUCTED QUESTIONS 3 2 EXTENDED QUESTIONS 1
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Each section will be approximately 70 minutes.
– All students will encounter a constructed-response item within
the first or second section of the test.
passage and comparing/contrasting between the two passages
conclusions, claims, etc.
Warning: Students who simply rewrite excerpts from the passage(s) to illustrate their point(s) will not receive favorable scores.
Genres
Writing prompts will be informative or opinion depending on the grade
encounter either genre.
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Sample questions created by PARCC
http://practice.parcc.testnav.com/#
Parent Guide
http://www.pta.org/advocacy/content.cfm?ItemNu
mber=3816 A demo of CTB’s online platform can be accessed at this link –
http://learnoas.ctb.com/GA/
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