A Tight Spot MSA Target 1 January 21, 2010

It’s Not The Questions… It’s THE ANSWERS… – Selected Responses – Student Produced Responses – Brief Constructed Responses

Making Your Mark Selected Responses #2 Pencil ONLY Bubbled – Clear – Heavy – Dark Erased completely if mistaken – No stray marks

Sample Math Question Selected Response

Sample Reading Questions Selected Response

Say What? Student Produced Responses MATH MSA – 7 th and 8 th graders #2 Pencil ONLY Written & Bubbled Clear Heavy Dark Fully justified

Sample Math Question Student Produced Response Write your whole number, decimal, or fraction here! Remember to bubble a decimal point or fraction bar if needed! Remember to bubble each number in your answer, too! Start all of the way to the left, and do NOT skip spaces!

Thinking INSIDE the Box Brief Constructed Responses Legible #2 Pencils ONLY Within the box Used as many lines as needed For Math… Complete Part A (your answer) Complete Part B (your explanation) – SHOW YOUR WORK!

Sample Math Question Brief Constructed Response (BCR)

Sample Reading Question Brief Constructed Response (BCR)

What’s the Big Deal? Easy to read… Easy to grade… ACCURATE SCORES!!

Get to the Point! Make Your Mark Say What? Think Inside the Box!!

Let’s Check Your Understanding

Credits Stacy Bryan – Mentor Teacher – PowerPoint Designer – Project Coordinator – Narrator Wendy Steo – Mathematics Department Chair & Teacher – Project Consultant Elizabeth Beser – Reading Specialist – Project Consultant Nancy Reynolds – Principal’s Mentor – Project Consultant No smiley faces were harmed in the production of this project.

Source Maryland State Department of Education. Public release items. Retrieved on-line from on January 08,