Computer-Based Sample Test Scoring Guide End-of...

Computer-Based Sample Test Scoring Guide

End-of-Course ELA 9 AzMERIT

Updated January 24, 2017 Prepared by the Arizona Department of Education and the American Institutes for Research®

Sample Test Scoring Guide-EOC ELA 9 Spring 2017

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About the Sample Test Scoring Guide The AzMERIT Sample Test Scoring Guides provide details about the items, student response types, correct responses, and related scoring considerations for AzMERIT Sample Test items. Within this guide, each item is presented with the following information:

Item number

Strand

Cluster

Content Standard

Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Static presentation of the item

Static presentation of student response field (when appropriate)

Answer key, rubric or exemplar

Applicable score point(s) for each item The items included in this guide are representative of the kinds of items that students can expect to experience when taking the computer-based test for AzMERIT End-of-Course ELA 9.


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EOC ELA 9–Writing Sample Test

Passage(s):

What is the Electoral College?

The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong

In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President

Item Number

Strand Cluster Content Standard

DOK

1 Writing Text Types and Purposes W.9-10.1a 4


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Grades 9–11 Argumentative Essay Writing Guide

Purpose, Focus, and Organization

Evidence and Elaboration Conventions

The response is fully sustained and consistently focused within the purpose, audience, and task; and it has a clear claim and effective organizational structure creating coherence and completeness. The response includes most of the following:

Strongly maintained claim with little or no loosely related material

Clearly addressed alternate or opposing claims

Skillful use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify the relationships between and among ideas

Logical progression of ideas from beginning to end with a satisfying introduction and conclusion

Appropriate style and tone established and maintained

The response provides thorough, convincing, and credible support, citing evidence for the writer’s claim that includes the effective use of sources, facts, and details. The response includes most of the following:

Smoothly integrated, thorough, and relevant evidence, including precise references to sources

Effective use of a variety of elaborative techniques to support the claim, demonstrating an understanding of the topic and text

Clear and effective expression of ideas, using precise language

Academic and domain-specific vocabulary clearly appropriate for the audience and purpose

Varied sentence structure, demonstrating language facility

The response demonstrates an adequate command of basic conventions. The response may include the following:

Some minor errors in usage but no patterns of errors

Adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling

References and Citations

When referring to evidence and information from passages, students should use paraphrasing and short quotations. To credit sources, students should use informal, in-text citations (e.g., MLA author or title tags).


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EOC ELA 9–Reading Sample Test

Passage(s):

Playing along with the Mozart effect

“Mozart Effect” Was Just What We Wanted To Hear (listening passage)

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

1 Reading for

Informational Text Craft and Structure RI.9-10.4 2


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

2 Reading for

Informational Text Key Ideas and Details RI.9-10.3 2


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(1 Point) Student selected the correct answer for each part.

Item Number


DOK

3 Reading for



8

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

4 Reading for



9

(1 Point) Student checks both correct options.

Item Number


DOK

5 Reading for



10


Item Number


DOK

6 Reading for



11

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

7 Listening

Comprehension (Informational)

Comprehension and Collaboration SL.9-10.3 2


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(1 Point) Student selected the correct passage option for each example.

Item Number


DOK

8 Listening




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(1 Point) Student selected the correct passage option for each detail.

Item Number


DOK

9 Reading for

Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RI.9-10.7 2


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Passage(s):

Apollo and Daphne

Daphne

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

10 Reading for Literature

Key Ideas and Details RL.9-10.2 2


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(1 point) Student selected the correct answer for Part A; student selected two of the three correct highlighted details for Part B.

Item Number


DOK




16

(1 point)

Item Number


DOK


Craft and Structure RL.9-10.4 2


17


Item Number


DOK




18

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK




19

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK


Craft and Structure RL.9-10.5 2


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Item Number


DOK


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RL.9-10.9 3


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RL.9-10.9 2


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Passage(s):

Invasive Plants

The Tower of Frequency: Ecology (listening passage)

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

18 Listening




23

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

19 Listening




24

(1 Point) Student selected both correct options.

Item Number


DOK

20 Listening




25

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

21 Listening




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Passage(s):

The Novel (editing task)

(1 point)

Item Number


DOK

22 Language Conventions of Standard English L.9-10.2b 1


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(1 point for each correct answer)

Item Number


DOK

23 Language Conventions of Standard English L.9-10.2a 1


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(1 point)

Item Number


DOK

24 Language Conventions of Standard English L.9-10.1b 1


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(1 point for each correct answer)

Item Number


DOK

25 Language Conventions of Standard English L.9-10.2a 1

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