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Assessment Office Seeks Thousands of Student Responses for New Writing Benchmarks
Summary
The assessment office asked districts to participate in a large field test of updated writing benchmark prompts and rubrics; staff said they need about 5,000 student responses per prompt and that responses will not be scored for participating LEAs this year.
Assessment staff asked districts to sign up for a field test of new writing benchmarks and rubrics for grades 3–8, stressing the program needs large participation to produce automated scoring and norms.
The staff member said the office needs roughly 5,000 student responses for each benchmark prompt and urged LEAs to volunteer students for the February–March field-test window. "We need 5,000 signal responses for each benchmark, field test responses in order…
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