Test Item Analysis: 7th Grade TCAP Mrs. Michele Glover

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Test Item Analysis7th Grade TCAPMrs. Michele
Glover

• Grade Level 7th Grade
• Content Area Life Science
• Source 2005 TCAP Sampler

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• Item Analysis
• Standardized Test Item
• Test Item Type
• Test Item Structure
• Embedded Content and Skills

• Standards Correlation
• Content Clarification
• Strand Map (Science)

• Instructional Alignment
• Next Generation Tools

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Standardized Test Item

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Characterize the Test Item

• Enhanced Multiple Choice

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Test Item Structure

• Stem Consists of a question relating to the
  equation of cellular respiration.
• Diagram Shows the equation of cellular
  respiration with a missing reactant and product.
• Distractors A is a product but it is already
  listed as a product. B is a reactant. D is a
  type of energy needed for photosynthesis and not
  a product of respiration.
• Correct answer choice C
• What makes this the correct choice?
• This is one of the products of cellular
  respiration, whereas the others are already
  listed in the diagram.

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Embedded Concepts Process Skills

• Concepts and Ideas
• Chemical Formulas Respiration
• Chemical Reactions Cell Organelles
• Major skill requirements
• Interpreting a respiration formula
• Webbs Knowledge Levels
• Recall

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Connection to TN Standards

• Content Standard 3.0 Food Production and Energy
  for Life
• The student will study the basic parts of plants,
  investigate how plants produce food, and discover
  that plants and animals use food to sustain life.
• Learning Expectations
• 3.2 Distinguish between photosynthesis and
  respiration.
• 3.3 Describe the movement of oxygen and carbon
  dioxide between living things and the
  environment.
• Performance Indicators State
• at Level 1, the student is able to
• 7.3.spi.2 identify photosynthesis as the food
  making process in plants.
• at Level 2, the student is able to
• 7.3.spi.5 select the illustration that depicts
  the movement of oxygen and carbon dioxide between
  living things and their environment.
• 7.3.spi.6 identify the reactants and products of
  photosynthesis and respiration.
• at Level 3, the student is able to
• 7.3.spi.8 interpret a diagram depicting the
  oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle.

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Connection to Standards NSES

• Students in grades K-8 should have developed a
  foundational understanding of life sciences.
  (9-12)

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Connection to StandardsBenchmarks

• (6-8) Food provides molecules that serve as fuel
  and building material for all organisms. Plants
  use the energy in light to make sugars out of
  carbon dioxide and water. This food can be used
  immediately for fuel or materials or it may be
  stored for later use. Organisms that eat plants
  break down the plant structures to produce the
  materials and energy they need to survive. Then
  they are consumed by other organisms.

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Content Clarification

• Content Clarification

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Strand Map Flow of Matter in Ecosystems
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Instructional Plan

• Fact Finding.ppt

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