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Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3	School Fair The School Fair task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a poster. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a video recording on laptop computer, an answer booklet, and a cartoon card. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3, 7	Shoes The Shoes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compare and summarize information to inform decision making. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, and a picture. This task is a part of the Thinking About and Using Information task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3	Spiders The Spiders task allows students to demonstrate their ability to plan information gathering and appropriate questions. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a recording sheet, two instruction cards, two answer sheets, and a highlighter pen. This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2005. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 7	Splash Planet The Splash Planet task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information via the internet. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program, a laptop computer, and a prompt card. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2005 by NEMP.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3, 7	Stop Look Think The Stop Look Think task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret visual information. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a road traffic picture. This task is a part of the Analyzing and Using Information task series from 2001. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3, 7	Sushi The Sushi task allows students to demonstrate their ability to sort and sequence a process. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, a set of eight cards, and an answer booklet. This task is a part of the Thinking About and Using Information task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Australia) Subject Interdisciplinary, Interpersonal Development, English Language Arts, Technology, Communication, Information Skills Grade Level K	Tools The Tools unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 8 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources. Unit description from source: Students will listen to short texts about tools and explore how tools work, what tools are, what they are used for, and how they developed over time. Following an investigation of simple tools used in the classroom, home and workplace, students design and construct their own tool. They develop skills in working with others, and write texts describing different tools. Students are introduced to the relationship between work and technology and develop an understanding of what work is and tools that are used for different jobs.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 7	Transportation The Transportation task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information in an encyclopedia. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are the Oxford Children’s Pocket Book of Knowledge and a recording book. This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2001. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 7	Treaty Search The Treaty Search task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use a computer encyclopedia to find information. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a laptop computer, the New Zealand Encyclopedia software, a cue card, and a timer. This task is a part of the Finding and Using Information from Non-Book Resources task series from 1997 by NEMP.
Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand) Subject Information Skills Grade Level 3, 7	Water The Water task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use book covers to identify an appropriate book, find the appropriate page numbers using the indexes, and use the tables of content to identify which chapters to look in. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are book covers, tables of contents and indexes for three books, and a card listing questions. This task is a part of the Identifying Appropriate Sources of Information task series from 1997 by NEMP.

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Task

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3

School Fair

The School Fair task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify information needs for a poster. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a video recording on laptop computer, an answer booklet, and a cartoon card.

This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3, 7

Shoes

The Shoes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compare and summarize information to inform decision making. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, and a picture.

This task is a part of the Thinking About and Using Information task series from 2009. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3

Spiders

The Spiders task allows students to demonstrate their ability to plan information gathering and appropriate questions. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are a recording sheet, two instruction cards, two answer sheets, and a highlighter pen.

This task is a part of the Clarifying Information Needs task series from 2005. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
7

Splash Planet

The Splash Planet task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information via the internet. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program, a laptop computer, and a prompt card.

This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2005 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3, 7

Stop Look Think

The Stop Look Think task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret visual information. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a road traffic picture.

This task is a part of the Analyzing and Using Information task series from 2001. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3, 7

Sushi

The Sushi task allows students to demonstrate their ability to sort and sequence a process. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a video recording, a laptop computer, a set of eight cards, and an answer booklet.

Source
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Australia)

Subject
Interdisciplinary, Interpersonal Development, English Language Arts, Technology, Communication, Information Skills

Grade Level
K

Tools

The Tools unit includes an introduction, the learning focus, 8 teaching and learning activities, assessment criteria, and resources.

Unit description from source: Students will listen to short texts about tools and explore how tools work, what tools are, what they are used for, and how they developed over time. Following an investigation of simple tools used in the classroom, home and workplace, students design and construct their own tool. They develop skills in working with others, and write texts describing different tools. Students are introduced to the relationship between work and technology and develop an understanding of what work is and tools that are used for different jobs.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
7

Transportation

The Transportation task allows students to demonstrate their ability to find information in an encyclopedia. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are the Oxford Children’s Pocket Book of Knowledge and a recording book.

This task is a part of the Finding and Gathering Information task series from 2001. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
7

Treaty Search

The Treaty Search task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use a computer encyclopedia to find information. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a laptop computer, the New Zealand Encyclopedia software, a cue card, and a timer.

This task is a part of the Finding and Using Information from Non-Book Resources task series from 1997 by NEMP.

Source
National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)

Subject
Information Skills

Grade Level
3, 7

Water

The Water task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use book covers to identify an appropriate book, find the appropriate page numbers using the indexes, and use the tables of content to identify which chapters to look in. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are book covers, tables of contents and indexes for three books, and a card listing questions.

This task is a part of the Identifying Appropriate Sources of Information task series from 1997 by NEMP.

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