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=Introduction=

Welcome to Adams County Science. This wiki is the result of a collaboration opportunity held June 11 and 12, 2009 at the Conewago Valley School District.

Our goal was to develop a strategy to assess student readiness for the Science PSSA as 4Sight does for Math and Reading. This page will serve as a reference to the sources we have used and the products we have compiled.

=Data Files=

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[|Adams County Summer 2009 Starter Bank.bnk] -Contains questions selected from the Virginia DOE 2008 Chemistry Test======

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[|Summary of Results of Virginia DOE 2008.xlsx] -Statistics of Adams County Summer 2009 Starter Bank as related by Eligible Content====== [|Bio Final Gettysburg.bnk]- First 30 questions 2009, This was done with version 6, you must upgrade to version 6 or higher to read it. All others are in version 5.1. [|pssa earth sci question bank.bnk]- Earth Science questions, California released exams =What’s Next?=

The next stage of the process is for teacher around the county to add to the test question data bank. Questions that are added should be aligned to the level of eligible content. Whenever possible the original source of the question should be provided in the test question information screen. In the long term, each of the 83 eligible content standards for grade 11 should have multiple options of questions so that each item may be assessed more than once.

Additionally the idea of the Science Scenario must be developed further to give students practice at using multiple pages worth of data to draw conclusions.An arsenal of scenarios would be ideal to practice three to four times with Juniors before they see the PSSA.

//SAMPLE SCIENCE SCENARIO:: [|Science Scenario 2005-2006.bnk] -This is formated from 2005-2006 PSSA released samples. The format here can be followed to pull new scenarios for students to pursure.//