Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2003 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 8 Mathematics

Question 9: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Question 22: Geometry

Question 28: Patterns, Relations, and Algebra

Question 29: Number Sense and Operations

Question 39: Measurement

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Information on how these questions were scored

Grade 8 Mathematics of the Release of Spring 2003 Test Items

Math Tool Kit

NOTE: The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS administered in Spring 2003. In order to protect individual students' privacy, all names and references of a personal nature have been altered or removed. The responses have been recopied exactly as the student wrote them.

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