Release of Spring 2017 Test Items
A partial release of items from the
spring 2017 Ohio State Mathematics Tests is now available in the Ohio’s State Test portal. These items give educators insight
into the kinds of questions students experienced, and they are a useful tool to
inform classroom instruction. Both teachers and parents may use this resource
to help students know what to expect.
Included with each item in this
release are the associated learning standard(s) and the scoring rubrics.
Examples of student responses also are available to illustrate actual work and
the corresponding points earned on the student examples.
Desmos Calculators*
Beginning
with the 2017-2018 school year, Ohio’s State Tests will use Desmos as the
online calculator. The Ohio version of the Desmos calculators are available in the test portal through the practice tests and as a direct link. These are the same
calculators students will have available to them during online testing.
The
calculators available for testing were modified with certain features disabled
or removed. The modifications were made either because removed functions a)
concerned content above the grade level of the test; or b) could have affected
the tests’ ability to measure a student’s understanding of grade-level content
in some areas of the standards.
Districts
can still choose to allow students to use handheld calculators on state tests
in addition to the calculator provided in the test platform. Find
information about the recommended and allowable calculators for the mathematics
tests at the links below.
Grades 3-8*
High School
* Only students who qualify for a calculator as an accommodation per their IEP or 504 plan are permitted to use a calculator in Grades 3-5 and on Part 1 of the Grades 6 and 7 tests.
Online Practice Tests Are Now Able To Be Scored
The half-length practice tests will
now feature real-time item-scoring to allow a student immediate feedback on
each item. The item score will show how many points the student earned for the response;
how many points are possible for the item; and information about why the
student’s response was correct or incorrect. The practice tests will not
provide test scores (e.g., no scale score, no performance level) or item
scoring information for test administrators.
To obtain scores on half-length
practice test items, users need to select the End Test icon on the top row
of the screen. This icon only appears on screen when the user reaches the last
question in the practice test session. Constructed response items are not
eligible for scoring by computer. A scoring rubric is available in the Item
Release Scoring Guide for each set of these practice items. For released
constructed response items, educators can use the scoring rubrics as tools for
providing feedback on written student responses.
New Item Types Available for Online Tests
A pair of new item types, Inline
Choice and Gap Match, are now available for online Ohio’s State Tests. These
new item types will be eligible to appear as field test items during the
2017-2018 school year. Field test items do not count for or against a student’s
overall score. To help teachers and students become familiar with these new
item types, the practice test for each grade level or high school course feature
an example of each new item type.
A video tutorial demonstrating the
functionality of each new item type is available in the test portal. Students can access tutorial videos
for each of the various item types, including the newly added Inline Choice and
Gap Match item types through the test portal any time before or after testing.
During testing, students can access the tutorial videos through the testing
platform.
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