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Computer-Based Sample Test Scoring Guide

Grade 7 ELA AzMERIT

Updated January 24, 2017 Prepared by the Arizona Department of Education and the American Institutes for Research®

Sample Test Scoring Guide-Grade 7 ELA Spring 2017

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About the Sample Test Scoring Guide The AzMERIT Sample Test Scoring Guides provide details about the items, student response types, correct responses, and related scoring considerations for AzMERIT Sample Test items. Within this guide, each item is presented with the following information:

Item number

Strand

Cluster

Content Standard

Depth of Knowledge (DOK)

Static presentation of the item

Static presentation of student response field (when appropriate)

Answer key, rubric or exemplar

Applicable score point(s) for each item The items included in this guide are representative of the kinds of items that students can expect to experience when taking the computer-based test for AzMERIT Grade 7 ELA.


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Grade 7 ELA–Writing Sample Test

Passage(s):

Action-Packed Video Games a Sight for Sore Eyes

Video Games and Physical Health

Teens’ Sleep Cut Short by High-Tech Toys

Heart Group Backs Video Games in Obesity Campaign

Item Number

Strand Cluster Content Standard

DOK

1 Writing Text Types and Purposes W.7.1a 4


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Grades 7–8 Argumentative Essay Writing Guide

Purpose, Focus, and Organization

Evidence and Elaboration Conventions

The response is fully sustained and consistently focused within the purpose, audience, and task; and it has a clear claim and effective organizational structure creating coherence and completeness. The response includes most of the following:

Strongly maintained claim with little or no loosely related material

Clearly addressed alternate or opposing claims

Skillful use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify the relationships between and among ideas

Logical progression of ideas from beginning to end with a satisfying introduction and conclusion

Appropriate style and tone established and maintained

The response provides thorough, convincing, and credible support, citing evidence for the writer’s claim that includes the effective use of sources, facts, and details. The response includes most of the following:

Smoothly integrated, thorough, and relevant evidence, including precise references to sources

Effective use of a variety of elaborative techniques to support the claim, demonstrating an understanding of the topic and text

Clear and effective expression of ideas, using precise language

Academic and domain-specific vocabulary clearly appropriate for the audience and purpose

Varied sentence structure, demonstrating language facility

The response demonstrates an adequate command of basic conventions. The response may include the following:

Some minor errors in usage but no patterns of errors

Adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, sentence formation, and spelling

References and Citations

When referring to evidence and information from passages, students should use paraphrasing and short quotations. To credit sources, students should use informal, in-text citations (e.g., MLA author or title tags).


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Grade 7 ELA–Reading Sample Test

Passage(s):

The Not-So-Simple Life

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

1 Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Use L.7.5a 2


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(1 Point) Student selected both correct options.

Item Number


DOK

2 Reading for

Informational Text Key Ideas and Details RI.7.1 2


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

3 Reading for

Informational Text Craft and Structure RI.7.5 2


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

4 Reading for



9

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

5 Reading for



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(1 Point) Student selected both correct options.

Item Number


DOK

6 Reading for

Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RI.7.8 2


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(1 Point) Student selected correct answer(s) for each part.

Item Number


DOK

7 Reading for



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(1 Point)

Student’s response includes one or more of the following:

An explanation of how everyday things are more complicated in Antarctica.

An explanation that supplies can only be brought in at specific times.

Showed examples of the ways that people plan for life in Antarctica.

Item Number


DOK

8 Reading for

Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RI.7.8 3


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

9 Reading for



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Passage(s):

from Sister Carrie

Lucy Larcom: Mill Girl Poet

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

10 Reading for Literature

Craft and Structure RL.7.4 2


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(1 point) Student selected both correct options.

Item Number


DOK


Key Ideas and Details RL.7.3 3


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(1 point)

Item Number


DOK




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(1 Point) Student selected the correct impact for each interaction.

Item Number


DOK




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(1 Point) Student selected both correct sentences.

Item Number


DOK




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(1 Point) Student selected correct answer for each part.

Item Number


DOK




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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RL.7.9 2


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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK




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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RL.7.9 2


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Passage(s):

El Camino Real

Take a Journey Along El Camino Real (listening passage)

(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

19 Listening

Comprehension (Informational)

Comprehension and Collaboration SL.7.3 2


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(1 Point) Student selected correct answer for each part.

Item Number


DOK

20 Listening




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(1 Point)

Item Number


DOK

21 Listening




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(1 point)

Item Number


DOK

22 Listening




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Passage(s):

Mariana Trench (editing task)

(1 point)

Item Number


DOK

23 Language Conventions of Standard English L.7.2a 1


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(1 point for each correct answer)

Item Number


DOK

24 Language Conventions of Standard English L.7.2a 1


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(1 point)

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Item Number


DOK

25 Language Conventions of Standard English L.7.1b 1


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(1 point)

Item Number


DOK

26 Language Conventions of Standard English L.7.1b 1

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