3.5 Practice Assessments

Option #3: Performance Assessment Social Studies Thinking (Social Studies)

Michigan Social Studies teachers have been hard at work creating their own next generation assessment that mirrors what Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) has done for ELA and Math. the PASST project provides Social Studies teachers across the state with free classroom assessments that test the Social Studies Content Expectations, as well as the Common Core State Standards and C3 Framework. Available in Moodle and Data Director, students are able to take these assessments and receive feedback on their performance.

PASST completed 5th grade, 8th grade, and HS US History during the 2013-14 school year, and is hard at work developing assessments over the next two years for the remaining grade levels. Currently, you can take an elementary, middle school, and high school sample test online on their prototype test page, and download all available grade levels questions directly into your own school's Moodle server.

• Constructed response and essay questions are not graded automatically, which means that users will not receive feedback on these types of assessment items. Users can refer to the corresponding item specification form to review answer keys and rubrics.
• Requires freely available plugins listed on their Technology Components page

Explore at least one of the PASST assessments that best fits your grade level and content area. You do not need an enrollment key for the prototype test page, just an account on the Moodle server.

• PASST Links: http://passtmoodle.wmisd.org
• Prototype test page: http://passtmoodle.wmisd.org/course/view.php?id=2

You are now ready to move to the next activity: 3.6 Reflection of Practice Assessments