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Tips for Using the Social Studies Formative Item Pools
The Formative Item Pool is an integral part of QualityCore®. Each course has its own pool of 225 multiple-choice items and more than 20 constructed-response items, each aligned to QualityCore course objectives. The items are intended to help teachers measure student progress and determine whether a student or group of students needs additional instruction on particular skills or concepts.
The items are presented as a PDF to maintain the visual consistency of graphics, special characters, and symbols. Each item is on its own page and is “bookmarked” for easy navigation through the PDF. This allows the teacher to easily find and arrange items into a formative assessment, homework, or classroom assignment, without having to reformat any text.
The multiple-choice items are grouped by QualityCore Instructional Units. (See the QualityCore Instructional Unit Plans or the Course Outline to see how various objectives might be covered in each of the units.) Each set of items is introduced by a cover sheet displaying the item Identification Number (ID), the correct answer (Key), the cognitive level, and the alphanumeric code for each course objective covered by that item.
Each constructed-response item has a coversheet describing the item, the cognitive level, the alphanumeric code for the course objective(s) covered by the item, and the cognitive task type. The items are matched to the relevant unit in the QualityCore Course Outline. The scoring criteria and a scoring rubric follow each constructed-response item. Included in the pool are two items designed to emulate the items on the End-of-Course constructed-response assessment. Taken together, these two items provide students with a practice End-of-Course Assessment.
QualityCoreTM Formative Item Pool
. History Unit 1
The following pages contain items that can be used for formative assessments. The items provided in this document are intended to aid the teacher