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12th Grade Government and Economics End-of-Year History Writing Task In the 12th Grade Government and Economics End-of-Year History Writing Task students will respond to the question "Should California raise the state minimum wage to $12.25 per hour?". They will write an essay using a variety of articles, cartoon, images, and charts as evidence to support their argument. This task includes resources to help students brainstorm, evaluate sources and evidence, plan their essay, organize their argument, and an argumentative writing checklist. This task also includes:
The Oakland Unified School Districted has designed this history assessment to support the literacy goals of the Common Core State Standards. |
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12th Grade Government and Economics Mid-Year History Writing Task In the 12th Grade Government and Economics Mid-Year History Writing Task students will respond to the question "Should the US continue to use the Electoral College as the way of electing our President?". They will write an essay using a variety of articles, editorial cartoon, maps, images, and charts as evidence to support their argument. This task includes resources to help students brainstorm, evaluate sources and evidence, plan their essay, organize their argument, and an argumentative writing checklist. This task also includes:
The Oakland Unified School Districted has designed this history assessment to support the literacy goals of the Common Core State Standards. |
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1877 Railroad Strike This task assesses students’ ability to to source and corroborate a document. Drawing on knowledge gained from sourcing an excerpt from an 1877 newspaper article about railroad strikes in Columbus, Ohio, students then evaluate it in several ways; Question 1 asks students to evaluate whether the excerpt provides enough evidence to draw conclusions about the broader railroad strike as a whole. To answer this question, students must source the document to determine whether the account can be regarded as conclusive evidence. Question 2 asks students to identify and evaluate whether additional documents or perspectives could be used to corroborate the account. Resources include PDF downloads of the assessment with source materials, and a rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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1995 TIMSS Advanced Mathematics Set The 1995 TIMSS Advanced Mathematics Set covers the content domains of geometry, algebra, and calculus, and the cognitive domains of knowing, reasoning, and applying. This task includes:
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1995 TIMSS Advanced Physics Set The 1995 TIMSS Advanced Physics Set covers the content domains of heat and temperature, electricity and magnetism, atomic and nuclear physics, and mechanics, and the cognitive domains of knowing, reasoning, and applying. This task includes:
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1995 TIMSS Grade 8 Mathematics Set The 1995 TIMSS Grade 8 Mathematics Set covers the content domains of measurement, estimation, and number sense, geometry, fractions and proportionality, whole numbers, patterns, relations, and functions, and data representation, analysis, and probability, and the cognitive domain of knowing, using complex procedures, performing routine procedures, and solving problems. This task includes:
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1999 TIMSS Grade 8 Mathematics Set The 1999 TIMSS Grade 8 Mathematics Set covers the content domains of algebra, measurement, geometry, fractions and number sense, and data representation, analysis, and probability, and the cognitive domain of knowing, using routine procedures, investigating and problem solving, mathematical reasoning, and communicating. This task includes:
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2001 PIRLS Assessment The 2001 PIRLS Assessment contains 4 reading passages and 49 test questions with their answers. Two of the reading passages were used to assess students’ reading for literary experience, and two were used to assess students' reading to acquired and use information.
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2003 TIMSS Grade 4 Mathematics Set The 2003 TIMSS Grade 4 Mathematics Set covers the content domains of patterns and relationships, geometry, data, measurement, and number, and cognitive domains of knowing facts and procedures, using concepts, solving routine problems, and reasoning. This task includes:
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2003 TIMSS Grade 4 Science Set The 2003 TIMSS Grade 4 Science Set covers the content domains of life science, physical science (chemistry and physics), and Earth science, and the cognitive domains of factual knowledge, conceptual understanding, and reasoning and analysis. This task includes:
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