Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

Question 18: Technology/Engineering

Question 19: Earth and Space Science

Question 37: Life Science

Question 38: Physical Sciences

Question 39: Technology/Engineering

NOTES:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in 2006. In order to protect the privacy of individual students, all names and references of a personal nature have been altered or removed. Aside from these changes, 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.
   
   

Related Links:

  Information on how these questions were scored

  Grade 8 Science and Technology/Engineering of the Release of Spring 2006 Test Items

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