High+Emphasis+Assessment+Targets

= “**High-Emphasis” Assessment Targets** = The NECAP Science Assessment Committee utilized an extensive resource review to determine which assessment targets should receive //greater instructional emphasis//, and therefore receive greater assessment emphasis - meaning devoting more test items and/or more test score points to these targets, __when choices need to be made__. These high-emphasis targets, which represent about half of the total assessment targets per grade span, have been identified for //potential// multiple test score points (e.g., Constructed Response (CR) items, Extended Response (ER) items, or several Multiple Choice (MC) items). Table 1 lists the high-emphasis targets with their preliminary Depth Of Knowledge (DOK) ceiling levels.

1.2 (SAE) – DOK 2 || 1.1 (INQ+SAE) – DOK 3 1.2 (SAE+FAF) – DOK 2 || 1.1 (INQ+SAE+FAF) – DOK 3 1.2 (FAF+POC) – DOK 3 || 2.6 (SAE) – DOK 2 || 2.3 (INQ+SAE) – DOK 2 || 1.2 (INQ+POC) –DOK 2 1.4 (SAE+MAS) –DOK 2 || 1.3 (POC) –DOK 2 1.4 (MAS+FAF) –DOK 3 || 3.9 (POC)–DOK 2 3.10 (SAE)–DOK 2 || 1.2 (INQ) –DOK 3 1.4 (INQ+SAE) – DOK 2 1.5 (POC) –DOK 2 || 1.2 (INQ+POC)–DOK 2 1.3 (SAE) –DOK 2 1.5 (INQ+POC)–DOK 3 || 1.1 (POC+INQ) –DOK 3 1.3 (SAE+POC)–DOK 3 || 2.8 (SAE+POC) –DOK 3 ||  || 3.7 (SAE)–DOK 3 3.8 (POC+SAE)–DOK 2 ||
 * **Table 1 – High-Emphasis Assessment Targets with Unifying Themes and DOK Ceilings*** ||
 * **Science Domains by EK Statement** || **Grade 4**
 * Targets with DOK** || **Grade 8**
 * Targets with DOK** || **Grade 11**
 * Targets with DOK** ||
 * **LS1**Survival of organisms || 1.1 (INQ+POC) – DOK 2
 * **LS2**Matter and energy in ecosystems || 2.6 (SAE) – DOK 2 || 2.5 (INQ+SAE)– DOK 2
 * **LS3**Organisms change over time ||  || 3.8 (MAS+FAF)– DOK 2 || 3.8 (INQ+SAE+FAF) – DOK 3 ||
 * **LS4**Humans are similar, yet unique || 4.8 (FAF) – DOK 2 || 4.11 (INQ+POC) – DOK 2 ||  ||
 * **PS1**Properties and structure of matter || 1.1 (INQ) –DOK 3 || 1.1 (INQ) –DOK 2
 * **PS2**Energy ||  || 2.6 (SAE+POC) –DOK 3 ||
 * **PS3**Forces and motion || 3.7 (INQ+SAE) –DOK 2 || 3.8 (INQ+POC) –DOK 2 || 3.8 (POC+INQ) –DOK 3
 * **ESS1**Earth and earth materials || 1.1 (INQ) –DOK 2
 * **ESS2**Solar system ||  || 2.6 (MAS) –DOK 2
 * **ESS3**Universe and galaxies ||  ||   || 3.6 (NOS) –DOK 3
 * * When considering the highest DOK Level as the ceiling the assessment target has the //potential// to be assessed at the Depth-of-Knowledge Level ceiling, and up to the ceiling, depending upon the expectations of the assessment target. This means that a target that has, for example, a ceiling of 3 could have assessment items written to DOK levels of 1, 2, or 3 but NOT DOK Level 4 to assess the target.

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