Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2008 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

High School U.S. History

Question 7: Civics and Government

Question 14: United States History II (to circa 1990)

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, 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

  High School U.S. History of the Release of Spring 2008 MCAS Test Items

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