Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2008 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School Chemistry

Question 12: Bonding and Reactions

Question 23: Properties of Matter and Thermochemistry

Question 32: Solutions, Equilibrium, and Acid-Base Theory

Question 44: Bonding and Reactions

Question 45: Atomic Structure and Periodicity

NOTES:

1. The sample responses provided here are selections of actual student work from the MCAS tests administered in 2008. 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, there are two sample student responses provided at the highest score point and one example of a response at all other score points. Please remember that each sample student response represents an 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

  High School Chemistry of the Release of Spring 2008 MCAS Test Items

Chemistry Formula and Constants Sheet/Perdiodic Table

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