Grade Level: 7

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Test Item AnalysisScience/Math Grade 7Jolyn
Mitchell and Lani SkeithMerrol Hyde Magnet
SchoolHendersonville, TN

• Grade Level 7
• Content Area Life Science Embedded
  Inquiry/Math
• Source Indiana Department of Education
  http//www.doe.in.gov/publications.html

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Step I Standardized Test Item
Indiana DOE (p. 56)
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Step I Test Item Type

• What type of test item did you select?
• Multiple Choice

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Step I Test Item Structure

• For a Multiple Choice Test Item
• Stimulus Maria measured the height of a bean
  plant over a period of ten days. Her data are
  shown in the table a below.
• Stem Which of the following shows the best axis
  scales to use to graph the data?
• Diagram

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• Distractors Answer choices A, B, and C are
  distractors because they do not show the best
  axis scales.
• Correct answer choice The correct answer is D.
• What makes this the correct choice? The x-axis
  shows the correct scale for the days, and the
  y-axis shows the correct scale for the height of
  the plants.

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Step I Embedded Concepts Process Skills

• Concepts and Big Ideas
• Interpreting Data Organizing Data
• Process (Inquiry or problem solving) Skills
• Reading graphs Intervals Independent Variable
• Dependent Variables
• Webbs Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Levels
• Skill/Concept

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Step II Connections to State Curriculum
Framework

• Math Standard 5 Data Analysis,
  Statistics, and Probability
• GLE 0706.5.2 Select,
  create, and use appropriate graphical
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  representations of data.
• Science - Embedded Inquiry
• GLE 0707.INQ.2 Use appropriate
  tools and techniques to
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  gather, organize, analysis, and interpret
  
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  data.
• GLE 0707.4.3 Explain the
  relationship among genes,
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  chromosomes, and inherited traits.

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Step II Content Clarification or Topic Study

• GLE 0706.5.2 Select, create, and use appropriate
  graphical
• representations of data.
• National Standard Select and use appropriate
  statistical
• methods to
  analyze data.
• http//standards.nctm.org/document/chapter6/data.h
  tm
• GLE 0707.INQ.2 Use appropriate tools and
  techniques to
• gather, organize,
  analysis, and interpret
• data.
• math-content-clarification-1.doc
• sci-content-clarification-1.doc

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Step II Atlas of Science Literacy

• http//strandmaps.nsdl.org/?idSMS-MAP-1381

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Step III Instructional Alignment

• ActiveLearning.ppt

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