Assessment/Accountability MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

2008 MCAS Sample Student Work and Scoring Guides

Grade 5 Mathematics

Question 10: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Question 13: Geometry

Question 17: Patterns, Relations, and Algebra

Question 27: Measurement

Question 31: Number Sense and Operations

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

  Grade 5 Mathematics of the Release of Spring 2008 MCAS Test Items

    Grade 5 Mathematics Reference Sheet

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