Tier 1 Instructional Strategies To Improve K-4 Reading Comprehension
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
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Strengths
Explicitly designed as three-dimensional assessments that integrate disciplinary core ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts
Cautions
Often embedded within specific digital tasks and contexts, so student performance may reflect familiarity with the platform or task format rather than purely their underlying science understanding or practices.
The Next Generation Science Assessment elementary assessment tasks are a set of online, scenario-based performance assessments designed to measure students’ progress toward Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) performance expectations. These assessments are organized by grade band (3–5) and are delivered through an interactive digital platform.
Each task presents students with a real-world or phenomenon-based scenario and includes multiple components such as simulations, visual models, written responses, and data interpretation activities. Students are asked to explain observations, construct models, analyze evidence, and apply scientific reasoning across disciplinary core ideas, science and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
20 mins; 44 items
Administration
Computer
Access and Use
Price
No fee
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Item Type
Open response
