Reading 2009 - African American Communication and Collaboration ...

GRADE
4
Sample Question: Integrate and Interpret
This sample constructed-response question measures
fourth-graders’ performance in integrating and interpreting
the information they have read about bees and pollination.
Successful responses demonstrated understanding of a
causal relationship between bees helping plants to reproduce
and plants feeding animals. Student responses to this
question were rated using four scoring levels.
Extensive responses provided a text-based explanation
of why bees are important to both plants and animals.
Essential responses provided a text-based explanation
of why bees are important to either plants or animals.
Partial responses provided relevant information from
the article without using it to explain why bees are
important to plants or animals.
Unsatisfactory responses provided incorrect information
or irrelevant details.
The sample student responses shown on the right were
rated as “Extensive” and “Essential.” The response rated
“Extensive” connects the information about what bees
do in pollination to plant growth and to those plants
providing food for animals. Twenty percent of fourthgraders’
responses to this question received an “Extensive”
rating. The response rated “Essential” demonstrates understanding
that bees are important to plants because they
help them to grow, but the response does not explain why
helping plants grow is important to animals. The response
does not explain that plants are important to the survival
of animals.
SAMPLE QUESTION:
Explain why bees are important to both plants
and animals. Use information from the article to
support your answer.
Extensive response:
Essential response:
Percentage of fourth-grade students in each response category: 2009
Extensive Essential Partial Unsatisfactory Omitted
20 39 23 16 2
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because the percentage of responses rated as “Off-task” is not shown. Off-task
responses are those that do not provide any information related to the assessment task.
The table below shows the percentage of fourth-graders
within each achievement-level interval whose response
to this question was rated as “Extensive.” For example,
among the students assessed who answered this question,
17 percent of fourth-graders at the Basic level provided a
response rated as “Extensive.”
Percentage of answers rated as “Extensive” for fourth-grade
students at each achievement level: 2009
Overall Below Basic At Basic At Proficient At Advanced
20 5 17 31 51
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Reading Assessment.
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