Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this task students will measure the temperatures of three cups of water in degrees Celsius, record temperatures in a chart and graph the results. Students then relate cooling and warming to surrounding temperature, and apply the concepts of cooling and warming to everyday events.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Students make observations then use their experience to make a prediction. The task assesses primary students' abilities to observe differences and similarities and make predictions.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The exercise is intended to show students how a compass can be affected by placing it near different objects. The students are given a penny and a bar magnet and asked to place these items, one at a time, in the center of a shaded rectangle.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Students observe, measure, and compare the lengths of the portion of a pencil that floats above the water surface in fresh water and salt water. They then determine if an unknown water sample is fresh water or salt water, and predict how the addition of more salt to the salt water would affect the floating pencil.... 535 Electrical Circuits and Switches Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: Students draw circuits and switches, explain how they work, then change their design for someone without hands to turn the switch on and off. The task assesses students' abilities to follow simple instructions to build a circuit, modify the design, and describe and diagram the changes made.... 536 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: River: Cory's main problem - pulling dog out Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 4 Professional Commentary: In this sample multiple choice test item, students are asked to identify the main problem faced by a character in the text. This question was used in a past National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) assessment (for more information, see About NAEP).... 537 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Add two 3-digit numbers Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Students add two 3-digit numbers. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 538 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Identify picture model of 3/4 Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to identify which of four pictures illustrates the fraction 3/4. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 539 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Identify heaviest object Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–4 Professional Commentary: Students must identify the heaviest object among four items whose weights are given in either pounds or ounces. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... 540 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 4: Reason about quadrilaterals Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This item essentially asks students to identify a quadrilateral that is not a rectangle. This multiple-choice question is a sample test item used in grades 4 and 8 in the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (see About NAEP).... |