The South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021 were officially approved by the State Board of Education and the Education Oversight Committee on June 14, 2021. This is a huge success for students of South Carolina, and we thank the many hours of over 500 SC science teachers, informal science educators, representatives of higher education, business and industry representatives, community members, parents, national science education leaders, as well as recent SC graduates who collaborated to revise our science standards for the students of SC.
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Performance Targets
These documents are intended as a guide for discerning and describing features of students and their work who have met the stated Performance Expectation (PE). This document is not intended to be read from cover to cover, but to be used, when needed, to support teacher professional learning and curriculum decisions.
Elementary
Kindergarten / First Grade / Second Grade / Third Grade /
Middle
Sixth Grade / Seventh Grade / Eighth Grade
High
Biology 1 / Biology 2 / Chemistry / Physics / Earth and Space Science / Anatomy & Physiology
Bundling Guides
These documents are intended to be a guide to provide examples of ways Performance Expectations (PEs) could be bundled. For this purpose, a bundle as defined by Pruit (2014), is, “a set of PEs that provide students with coherent connections among concepts within and across disciplines.”
Elementary
Kindergarten / First Grade / Second Grade / Third Grade /
Middle
Sixth Grade / Seventh Grade / Eighth Grade
High
Biology 1 / Biology 2 / Chemistry / Physics / Earth and Space Science / Anatomy & Physiology
The Office of Assessment and Standards convenes several meetings each year to review items, passages, and item data. Educators interested in serving on a committee should complete an application. More information on the various committees convened on a yearly and/or cyclical basis can be found in our Test Development Committee Descriptions document.
Teachers and District content specialists are invited to fill out this form to supply their information to the South Carolina Department of Education. We cannot offer a spot to all applicants. We will contact you by email if you are selected. Thank you for your willingness to participate in this important step in the test development process.