Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2004 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 8 Mathematics

Question 9: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Question 22: Patterns, Relations, and Algebra

Question 28: Number Sense and Operations

Question 29: Measurement

Question 39: Measurement

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.

Related Links:

Information on how these questions were scored

Grade 8 Mathematics of the Release of Spring 2004 Test Items

Grade 8 Mathematics Reference Sheet

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