Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2005 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 4 English Language Arts

Writing Prompt: Composition

NOTES:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in Spring 2005. In order to protect individual students' privacy, all names and references of a personal nature have been altered or removed. The responses appear 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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Information on how these questions were scored

Grade 4 English Language Arts of the Release of Spring 2005 Test Items

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