Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seasonal Change
In this task, students will determine patterns of seasonal growth by examining previous students' data.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) by MARS: Shell Center, University of Nottingham & UC Berkeley
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Security Camera
This task requires students to determine the most optimal security camera placement in a store to prevent shoplifting and provides a diagram with people throughout the store in order to give a quantatative visual.
This task includes:
1. A task description
2. A scoring rubric
3. Scored Student Work
4. Unscored Student Work
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Source Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) by MARS: Shell Center, University of Nottingham & UC Berkeley
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seeing Structure in Expressions
In this task, students must answer five short questions.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Scoring Rubric
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seven Years' War
This task assesses whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine an 1870s image of French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and then determine which fact can help them evaluate the reliability of the drawing as evidence of what happened at Fort William Henry. Strong students will be able to explain how prevailing attitudes about Native Americans (Fact 1) could affect how an artist depicts the past.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seville Quran
This task assesses students' knowledge of the time period of Muslim presence in Europe (1200’s)—but rather than measure rote recall of decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected.
Students with a strong understanding of the past will explain that the fact the featured source—the Quran—was made in Seville, points to the Islamic presence in the city in 1226. As an Islamic city in Iberia, it was the target of the Reconquista, which was raging at the time this Quran was completed. A strong response to the second question in this task might explain that in the 8th century, the Umayyad Caliphate expanded to Seville and beyond, establishing Islam as the dominant religion in Seville for centuries to come.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors.
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Humanities, Mathematics, Multimedia, Science, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 9 |
Shock and Awe: Projectile Motion in the Crusades
In this task, students will take place in a four week project that will ask them to practice math, write research papers, and develop flash movies relating to the Crusades.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Work: 1 example
3. Additional Resources: A handout, rubric, reflection, learning goals, CA state standards, about the author, teacher reflection
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Source Washington State Classroom- Based Assessments
Subject Health and Physical Education
Grade Level 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Shop, Eat, Move
In Shop, Eat, Move students will compare nutritional labels, identify positive and negative nutritional components, and identify additional foods that would compensate a healthy meal.
This task includes:
- Directions for Administration
- Recommendation for Time Management
- Teacher Worksheet
- Student Work Sheet
- Rubrics
- Resourses
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Source Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) by MARS: Shell Center, University of Nottingham & UC Berkeley
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Sidewalk Patterns
In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern. Similar to Sidewalk Stones, but with more guidance.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Scoring Rubric
3. Scored Student Work
4. Unscored Student Work
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Source Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP) by MARS: Shell Center, University of Nottingham & UC Berkeley
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Sidewalk Stones
In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Scoring Rubric
3. Scored Student Work
4. Unscored Student Work
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Signing of the Mayflower Compact
This task measures students’ ability to source a document. When historians interpret a document, they first look to find out who wrote it and when. This information presents important clues about whether the document provides reliable evidence about the past. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced and the event that it depicts.
Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that this painting offers limited evidence to historians who wish to understand the signing of the Mayflower Compact because it was produced over 200 years after the event.
The task includes a range of supplementary materials, all accessible and available for download with the creation of a free account through the site:
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