91 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Radioactive dating Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: Students are given the half-life of carbon-14 and are asked to determine the age of a piece of wood that has 25 percent of the amount of carbon-14 that is found in living trees. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 92 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Cause of convection in atmosphere Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to select the option that best explains the atmosphere's continuous movement by convection. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 93 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Subduction and orogeny Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to examine a diagram that includes a continental crust, oceanic crust, and a mountain range and explain how the mountain range was formed. This constructed response question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 94 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Two river valleys Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to examine two diagrams of river valleys and determine which river valley represents a more mature river. Students are also required to identify two features in the diagrams that support their response.... 95 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Comparison of amounts of gas Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are given the volume of carbon dioxide gas and are asked to determine how many liters of oxygen gas there would be if there were the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 96 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Evolutionary trees Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to select the evolutionary tree that best represents the relationship between groups of vertebrates. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 97 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Darwin's theory of evolution Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to select the option that is not part of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 98 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: History of plants Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to select the type of plant that dominated land habitats when amphibians first appeared. This multiple choice question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 99 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Rate of argon leakage Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to predict whether equal volumes of argon and helium gases at the same temperature would leak out of a tank at the same rate. Students are also asked to explain their answer.... 100 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Finding density of ring Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to design a procedure for determining the density of a ring. This constructed response question is a sample test item used in past National Assessments of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... |