It is that time of year again. The Missouri Assessment Program assesses students’ progress toward mastery of the Show-Me Standards which are the educational standards in Missouri. The Missouri Assessment Program includes assessments in the subject areas of communication arts (grades 3-8), mathematics (grades 3-8), and science (grades 5 and 8).
The grade-level assessments use three different types of questions or items:
*Multiple choice items are composed of selected response questions developed specifically for Missouri/or the survey portion of TerraNova, a nationally normed test.
*Constructed response items require students to supply an appropriate response rather than making a selection from a list of choices.
*Performance events are longer, more demanding tasks requiring students to work through problems, experiments, arguments, or extended pieces of writing.
You can find more information at this link:
http://www.pppctr.org/pages/uploaded_files/MAP%202008%20-%20FINAL%20%283%29.pdf