2013 Educator's Manual for MCAS-Alt - Massachusetts Department ...

Grade 5
ELA Required Portfolio Evidence
Language
(ELA General
Standard #4)
Reading and
Literature
(ELA General
Standard #8)
One data chart measuring the student’s performance on at least eight different
dates of a targeted skill based on GS #4 (i.e., Learning Standard 4.xx)
Two additional pieces of primary evidence showing the student’s performance of
the one targeted skill identified on the data chart
One data chart measuring performance on at least eight different dates of a
targeted skill based on GS #8 (i.e., Learning Standard 8.xx)
Two additional pieces of primary evidence showing the student’s performance of
the one targeted skill identified on the data chart
Mathematics Required Portfolio Evidence
Number and
Operations in
Base Ten
(2011 curriculum
frameworks)
Number and
Operations-
Fractions
(2011 curriculum
frameworks)
Science and
Technology/
Engineering
Any three of the
four Science and
Technology/
Engineering
strands
One data chart measuring the student’s performance on at least eight different
dates of a targeted skill based on one learning standard in the Number and
Operations in Base Ten domain
Two additional pieces of primary evidence showing the student’s performance of
the one targeted skill identified on the data chart
One data chart measuring the student’s performance on at least eight different
dates of a targeted skill based on one learning standard in the Number and
Operations-Fractions domain
Two additional pieces of primary evidence showing the student’s performance of
the one targeted skill identified on the data chart
Required Portfolio Evidence
Evidence may be compiled over two consecutive school years (7/1/11–3/31/13)
in this subject.
In each of the three selected strands:
One data chart measuring the student’s performance on at least eight different
dates of a targeted skill based on one learning standard in the selected Science
and Technology/Engineering strand
Two additional pieces of primary evidence showing the student’s performance of
the one targeted skill identified on the data chart
MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
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