The New York City Department of Education （纽约市教育部门）.pdf

The New York City Department of Education Grade 4 English Language Arts (ELA) Benchmark Assessment Teacher Guide Fall 2012 November 26, 2012–January 11, 2013 2704059     Table of Contents Test Design and Instructional Purpose 3 Test Content 3 Passages 4 Standards Alignment 4 Rubrics for Scoring Short-Response Extended-Response/ Performance Task Items 6     Test Design and Instructional Purpose The English Language Arts (ELA) Benchmark Assessment is designed to help you collect some information about your students’ progress toward meeting the Common Core expectations for fourth grade. There are two ELA Benchmark Assessments available—one for the fall and one for the winter. The question types and complexity of the texts reflect what we anticipate will be on the Grade 4 Common Core Learning Standards-aligned New York State test over the next two years. The test contains the following item types: • Multiple choice • Short answer constructed response • Extended response/performance task These items are designed to provide evidence of students’ skills in reading comprehension, critical thinking, and answering text-dependent questions. The extended response/ performance task items require comparison, analysis, synthesis, and/or opinion or argumentation. These Benchmark Assessments provide an objective measure of your students’ performance on cognitively rich tasks based on complex grade-level texts without sc