School Improvement in Maryland
Biology-Assessment
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Instructional Strategies.Assessment.Support Resources.
Content Standards.Core Learning Goals.MSDE HSA Team
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What are the guidelines for writing good assessment items?
.Item Writing Strategies
  .Guidelines for Writing Constructed Response Items
  .Guidelines for Writing Selected Response Items
  .Creating a Science Task
  .Item Sets
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 .Evolution of an Item
 .Understanding Assessment Limits - At Least
 .Matching the Skills and Processes Goal to the Other Four Core Learning Goals
 
What was learned from the Protoype Items in Biology?
 .General Prototype Analysis
 .Distractor Prototype Analysis
 
How can rubrics be used in assessment?
 .Science Rubric
 .Scoring Criteria for Graphs
 .Science Graphs Scoring Worksheet
 .Practice Scoring the Assessment
 
View student responses to Prototype Constructed Response
How does MSDE assess Biology on HSA?
 .High School Assessments