Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2004 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 5 Science and Technology/Engineering

Question 18: Earth and Space Science

Question 19: Technology/Engineering

Question 37: Life Science

Question 38: Technology/Engineering

Question 39: Life Science

NOTES:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS administered in Spring 2004. 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 students wrote them.
   
   
2. For each test question, please remember that each sample student response represents one example of a correct response and may not be the only valid approach to answering a question.

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Grade 5 Science and Technology/Engineering of the Release of Spring 2004 Test Items

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