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Assessment items
Assessment items
The Life Zones Task is a set of assessment items to administer to students. This task asks students to intertwine disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts and science and engineering practices consistent with modern science learning standards.
Answer Key
Answer Key
The answer key indicates correct answers for the assessment items. The key also tells you the target level for each question: the level within either the Argumentation, Natural Resources & Human Impacts, and Patterns learning progression that a correct answer indicates.
Learning progressions
Learning progressions
There are descriptions of the Argumentation, Natural Resources & Human Impacts and Patterns learning progressions. Each progression is broken down into levels 0 through 3 (least to most sophisticated). By using the assessment items and answer key to locate a student on the construct map, you can better understand the student’s level of conceptual mastery.
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