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2022-23 Exemplar Midterms and Finals
2022-23 Exemplar Midterms and Finals
The exams below were created for the 2022-23 year to help teachers begin to transition to the performance-based assessment demands of the NGSS.
Exemplar Midterm 2022-23
Grade 6: Student Version | Teacher Key
Grade 7: Student Version | Teacher Key
Grade 8: Student Version | Teacher Key
Exemplar Final Exams 2022-23
Grade 6: Student Version | Teacher Key
Grade 7: Student Version | Teacher Key
Grade 8: Student Version | Teacher Key
The NYS NGSS Assessment and Details
The NYS NGSS Assessment and Details
The 2024-25 will see the first instance of the Elementary (Grade 5) and Intermediate (Grade 8) Science Assessments. The Assessments also come with Required Investigations that you can access through the test portal.
To sign up for computer-based testing, click the link below:
The Required Investigations
The Required Investigations
With each assessment, there is a set of four investigations that need to be completed before the assessment. 15% of the computer-based assessments themselves will draw knowledge from the performance expectations explored in these investigations.Â
Linked to the right is how to access the investigations, the list of request materials, and frequently asked questions in regard to executing and grading the investigations.
ADNY x Discovery Kit Repurposing
ADNY x Discovery Kit Repurposing
Linked below and to the right is a document that shares how to repurpose your Discovery Education kit for the Required Investigations. You'll find materials that you'll need to purchase in red (with recommended vendors), materials not in the kits that are generally available around schools, and other guidance on where to locate each item.
*UPDATED* Elementary and Intermediate Practice Tests
*UPDATED* Elementary and Intermediate Practice Tests
Below are printable copies of the Practice Test that you can use with your students. A computer-based version of the test is available online.
Recommendations / Partial and Full Implementation Timelines
Recommendations / Partial and Full Implementation Timelines
One of the first things that you can do in your classroom is align your assessment structure with the Performance Level Descriptions below. They serve as a great way to assess students on warm ups, exit tickets, class responses, and other activities that you have yet to prescribe a scoring criteria to.
Below is a recommended visual timeline for implementing the NYS Elementary (3-5) and Intermediate (6-8) Science Tests. Below each visual timeline, you'll find a checklist format that your school site can make a copy of (File in the Top Left, Make a Copy) as well as a visual timeline for partial implementation
Preparing for the Biology or Earth & Space Science Regents
Preparing for the Biology or Earth & Space Science Regents
Schools opting to pursue the NYS Biology or Earth & Space Science Regents can still opt to do so. Please see the details on the right in order to waive the Intermediate (8th Grade) assessment. The Regents assessments have their own required investigations and performance level descriptors that you can find on the right.
For schools who are interested in learning more about how to explore topics on the NYS Biology or Earth & Space Science Regents, consult the New Visions / UC Boulder iHub / OpenSciEd Biology curriculums below.
Summer assignments as well as a parent letter have also been developed in order to communicate and prepare for the transition.
Coming Soon: Curriculum Timeline for ESS and LS Regents
Free NGSS Assessments to Practice
Free NGSS Assessments to Practice
High-quality NGSS tasks are available from the Task Annotation Project in Science. You can access a range of different tasks for Grade 3 - High School through the link to the right.
Stanford Graduate School of Education offers a range of free Short-Response, Short Performance, and Instructionally-Embedded Assessments to tackle the NGSS Performance Expectations for Grade 2 - High School.
The Tennessee District Science Network offers a range of NGSS Tasks for Grade 3 - High School.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction offers NGSS Assessments for Grade 2 - High School.
Concord Consortium offers a range of computer-based Science Tasks for students varying in length and difficulty for Grades 3 - Middle School.
CK-12 offers a range of MS and HS Quizzes for students to complete synchronously or asynchronously.
Non-Free Resources
Non-Free Resources
InnerOrbit has some great and editable NGSS Formative Assessments for Grade 3 - High School. Trial accounts are available for teachers to get a sense of how assessments might look like.
K-2 Specific-Resources
K-2 Specific-Resources
While there is still a drought in K-2 resources, teachers are encouraged to explore the PhD Science OER as well as the NGSS Quality Examples for Examples of Performance Expectation-Aligned Instruction
PhD Science K-2 is available as an open education resource. Sign up for a free downloadable Teacher Edition and Science Logbooks
The Quality Examples of Science Lessons and Units are a range of curated materials from Achieve to provide storylines and activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
Phased Out Resources
Phased Out Resources
Although phased out, some of the resources below may be helpful for K-2 teachers where resources are scarce. Their use is not endorsed,
Linked below are the Delaware Summative Assessments for Grades 1 to 5 as well as the page for Assessments as a whole.
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