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A Teacher’s Guide: Getting Acquainted with the 2014 GED® Test The Eight-Week Program
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• For each week, you’ll find the following components: – Focus: the content area you’ll be concentrating on – Read: the required reading assignment and (if you
can devote extra time) bonus reading – Engage: Webinars and/or other multi-media content – Discuss: questions to prompt conversations about
the material – Practice: practical (and occasionally immediate)
applications for your growing knowledge – Reflect: time to integrate your learning
How the program is organized
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Component • Focus • Read • Engage Part I • Engage Part II • Discuss • Practice • Reflect
Time Commitment • < 5 minutes • 15-30 minutes • 60 minutes (webinars) • 60-90 minutes (Samplers) • 30-60 minutes (or more) • 90-120 minutes • Take as much time as you
think you need
Timing
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Total time per week: ~ 4-6 hours Total course time: 35-50+ hours
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A MINI OVERVIEW
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• 7 Hours of testing time – Reasoning through Language Arts: 150 minutes
(including 10 minute break) – Mathematical reasoning: 90 minutes – Science: 90 minutes – Social Studies: 90 minutes
• Standardized delivery on computer, in a secure testing center
What will the 2014 GED® test look like?
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The new content areas & focus
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• Applying social studies reasoning skills to content drawn from the four domains of Civics and Government, United States History, Economics, and Geography and the World.
• Analyzing source documents and interpreting data represented in a variety of social-studies-relevant ways, including maps, graphs and tables.
• Applying scientific reasoning skills to content drawn from the three domains of Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science.
• Understanding scientific content pertaining to two focusing themes: “health and the human body” and “energy.”
• Executing and applying core computations with precision and fluency.
• Applying both quantitative and algebraic reasoning skills to a broad range of real-life, workplace, and academic contexts.
• Reading closely and to critically understanding a range of increasingly complex texts taken from the workplace and literary contexts, with an emphasis on non-fiction.
• Marshaling evidence and analyzing arguments while also expressing oneself clearly and fluently in writing.
• Correctly applying basic grammar and usage conventions and also determining meanings of unfamiliar words from context.
Reasoning Through
Language Arts
Mathematical Reasoning
Social Studies Science
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THE FIRST FOUR WEEKS
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Program Overview
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Reasoning Through
Language Arts,
Weeks 1&2
Mathematical Reasoning, Weeks 3&4
Science, Weeks 5&6
Social Studies,
Weeks 7&8
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• You’ll start with your first two content areas – Reasoning through Language Arts (RLA) – Mathematical Reasoning
• Expect to spend about two weeks on each content area
• Keep your learning objectives in mind as you progress through the material
• Take extra time if (or when) you need it
What to expect
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WEEK 1
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Reasoning through Language Arts • An integrated approach • Reading closely • Writing about what is being read • Demonstrating command of English language
conventions
Week 1: Focus
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Reasoning through Language Arts
Focus: • 75% informational texts, 25% literature; • A range of text complexity, including texts at the
career-and-college readiness level; • Text length of 450 to 900 words • Vocabulary, with emphasis on words that appear
frequently in a wide variety of disciplines (e.g., relative, vary, formulate, specificity, accumulate, calibrate, itemize, periphery, misfortune, dignified, faltered, unabashedly)
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Reading • Draw specific comparisons
between two texts • Distinguish between valid
arguments and faulty reasoning
• Distinguish between supported and unsupported claims
• Make inferences based on assumptions made by the author
Writing • Draw relevant and sufficient
evidence from the text(s) • Produce a response that
– Includes specific evidence
– Uses an effective organizational structure
– Uses appropriate vocabulary
– Applies standard conventions of English
What students will need to do
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Reasoning through Language Arts – Reading • Read closely text that is
– more complex than in the 2002 Series – greater in length than in the 2002 Series
• Determine what is explicitly stated • Make logical inferences based on evidence • Make inferences about characters
What students will need to do
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Reasoning through Language Arts - Language • Demonstrate command of conventions of standard
English • Recognize the errors in the responses that are not
correct • Identify option that is grammatically correct • Edit to eliminate run-on sentences, fused sentences, or
sentence fragments
What students will need to do
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Reasoning through Language Arts – Writing • Provides real-world opportunity for test-takers to
develop an argument and support ideas with text-based evidence
• Integrates reading and writing skills • Responses are scored using a new multi-dimensional
rubric
What students will need to do
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• Argument – Creation of argument – Evidence – use of text citations to support created
argument of source text(s) • Validity
– Assessment of the argument in source text(s) – Analysis of the issue
• Integration – Integration of claims, explanations and textual evidence – Connection of purpose to prompt
Trait 1 Rubric Overview
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• Ideas – Development (reasoning) – Elaboration of ideas
• Progression – Progression (flow) of ideas – Connection of details to main ideas
• Organization – Structured to convey message – Transitional devices
• Words – Appropriate word choice – Advanced vocabulary application
• Awareness – Demonstrated to audience and purpose – Form of writing – objective rhetoric and persuasive
Trait 2 Rubric Overview
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• Conventions – Application of standard English (e.g., homonyms/contractions, subject-verb agreement, pronoun usage, placement of modifiers, capitalization, punctuation)
• Sentence Structure – Variety – Clarity – Fluency (e.g., correct subordination, avoidance of
wordiness, run-on sentences, awkwardness, usage of transition words, appropriate usage for formal structure
• Errors – Mechanics and conventions – Comprehension based on errors
Trait 3 Rubric Overview
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• Required reading: “The GED® Test: A Content Comparison Between 2002 and 2014,” (Appendix D of The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.67-2.73 [available as a separate document at http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/2487f6e1ca5659684cbe1f8b16f564d0.pdf ]
• Bonus: “What is Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model?” Chapter 2, pages 2.3-2.6 [link to Chapter 2: http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
Week 1: Read
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• View "Webb's Depth of Knowledge" webinar (December 5, 2012) http://www.gedtestingservice.com/exploring-the-2014-ged-test-webinar-archive
• Watch "Exploring Reasoning Through Language Arts (RLA) Module of the 2014 GED® Test" webinar (January 15, 2013) http://www.gedtestingservice.com/exploring-the-2014-ged-test-webinar-archive
Week 1: Engage
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• What conclusions did you reach after reviewing the Reasoning through Language Arts Content Specifications comparing the 2002 and 2014 GED® test?
• Were the similarities or differences those you were expecting?
• What implications could the similarities and differences have for how you think about preparing students?
Week 1: Discuss
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Instructions 1. Review all of the Reading Content Specifications. 2. Select up to seven that challenge or interest you. 3. Create a table like the one on the next slide that lists
of the content specifications you’ve selected. You’ll notice that there is a column to record what strategies you use now in the classroom and potential strategies you might use in the future.
4. Fill in the table for your selected Reading Content Specifications.
Week 1: Practice
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2002 Reading Content Specifications
Current Instructional Strategies
2014 Reading Content Specifications
Potential Instructional Strategies
Restate or paraphrase information
Comprehend explicit details & main ideas in a text
Summarize main ideas Summarize ideas and details in text
Explain the primary implications of the text
Infer implied main ideas in paragraphs or whole texts
Transfer concepts and principles from reading to a new context
Make evidence-based generalizations or hypotheses based on details in text including clarifications, extensions, or applications of main ideas to new situations
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Were you able to meet any of your learning objectives? • What enhanced your learning? • What obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 2, do you need to make any
adjustments?
Week 1: Reflection
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WEEK 2
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• Welcome—it’s Week 2! • This week, you’ll continue working with content from
Reasoning through Language Arts (RLA) by reading about the RLA Assessment Targets.
• You’ll have an opportunity to interact with the RLA Item Sampler which includes a range of item types.
Week 2: Focus
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• Required reading: “Reasoning through Language Arts Assessment Targets,” Chapter 2, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.11-2.20 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
• Bonus: “Item Types Across Content Areas,” Chapter 1, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 1.4-1.6 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/8e4e6907a5c28f750a55a092e2e1190b.pdf
Week 2: Read
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• Now, it’s time to put your knowledge to work and get some practice with RLA items.
• Access the RLA Item Sampler from http://www.gedtestingservice.com/itemsamplerrla/ or the copy that you downloaded and saved to your desktop.
• Use the interactive version to get a sense of the test-taker experience and how items display.
• Ask yourself – What cognitive skills (listing, organizing, inferring)
will test-takers be using?
Week 2: Engage
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• “The most valuable thing I learned in the last two weeks was…”
• “The easiest thing for me to grasp was…” • “The hardest thing for me to grasp was…” • “Now, I would like to know more about…”
Week 2: Discuss
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Instructions 1. Review all of the Language Content Specifications. 2. Select three to five that challenge or interest you. 3. Create a table like the one on the next slide that lists
of the content specifications you’ve selected. You’ll notice that there is a column to record what strategies you use now and potential strategies you could use.
4. Fill in the table for your selected Language Content Specifications.
Week 2: Practice
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Week 2: Practice (the template)
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2002 Language Content Specifications
Current Instructional Strategies
2014 Language Content Specifications
Potential Instructional Strategies
• Create effective text divisions (between or among paragraphs
• Combine paragraphs to form a more effective document
• Form new paragraphs within multi-paragraph documents
• Create topic sentences
• Edit to ensure effective use of transitional words, conjunctive adverbs, and other words and phrases that support logic and clarity
• Note that paragraph development and organizational skills are measured through the Extended Response Scoring Rubric
• Edit to eliminate sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices
• Edit to eliminate run-on sentences, fused sentences or sentence fragments
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BONUS MATERIAL
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• Assessment items that ask students to apply knowledge, skills, and critical thinking abilities
• Requires students to “construct” answers without the benefit of any suggestions or choices.
• Requires students to generate and intertwine ideas into a response that is directly related to the text(s)
• Short or extended
Key Concept: Constructed response
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1. Read the passage and question 2. Unpack the prompt (identify key words) 3. Rewrite the question in your own words and turn
the question into a topic sentence/ thesis statement
4. Collect relevant details from passage 5. Organize details into a logical order 6. Draft your answer 7. Re-read and edit/revise your answer making
sure all parts of the question are answered
Steps for Drafting Constructed Responses
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Extended Response Structure
Beginning • The introduction states the main idea or position. It begins with a topic
sentence/thesis statement. The beginning restates the question and sets the stage to answer the prompt.
Middle
• Answer the question first. • Provide important information the author stated and meant. This is where you
go to the text(s) and provide examples/evidence and important details to support the answer.
• Sample phrases to introduce each text reference include: … stated; in the text …; for example . . .
• Include background information as required through the prompt.
Ending • Write a closing that summarizes the position taken or restates the thesis
statement in a different way.
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Use a step-by-step approach, including how to: • unpack a prompt • set up a claim (thesis statement) • identify evidence in the to support
the claim
Use a Process
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 3, do you need to make any
adjustments?
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WEEK 3
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• Welcome to Week 3! • It’s time to introduce a new content area—
Mathematical Reasoning. • Your study plan for the next two weeks will follow the
same structure as the first two weeks. • You’ll begin by focusing on the comparison between
the 2002 and 2014 GED® test content specifications—both the similarities and differences.
Week 3
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Mathematical Reasoning • Executing and applying core computations with
precision and fluency. • Applying both quantitative and algebraic reasoning
skills to a broad range of real-life, workplace, and academic contexts.
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The new GED® test of mathematical reasoning Focus: Quantitative problem solving (45%) and
algebraic problem solving (55%) What’s tested: Some procedural skills and fluency as
well as problem solving • Use of an embedded calculator for most items
(TI-30XS Multiview on-screen scientific calculator)
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Mathematical Reasoning • Calculate measures of central tendency • Distinguish between median and mode • Complete a line plot given
– summary statistics – a partial data set
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Mathematical Reasoning – Algebraic Problem Solving • Read and locate information within a table • Distinguish between x-axis and y-axis of a coordinate
plane • Recognize order of coordinates, i.e., x-coordinate and
y-coordinate (1, 2) • Locate points in the coordinate plane
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• Required reading: “The GED® Test: A Content Comparison Between 2002 and 2014,” (Appendix D of The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.74-2.80 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/2487f6e1ca5659684cbe1f8b16f564d0.pdf
• Bonus: “What is Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model?” Chapter 2, page 2.72 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
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• View the "Exploring the Mathematical Reasoning Module of the 2014 GED® Test” webinar (February 5, 2013) http://www.gedtestingservice.com/exploring-the-2014-ged-test-webinar-archive
Week 3: Engage
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• What conclusions did you reach after reviewing the Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications comparing the 2002 and 2014 GED® test?
• Were the similarities or differences those you were expecting?
• What implications could the similarities and differences have for how you think about preparing students?
Week 3: Discuss
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Instructions 1. Review the Mathematical Reasoning Content
Specifications. 2. Create a table for yourself like the one on the next
slide that lists each of the content specifications. You’ll notice that there is a column to record what practices you use now and potential practices.
3. Fill in the table for all of the Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications.
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Week 3: Practice (the template)
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2002 Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications
Current Instructional Strategies
2014 Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications
Potential Instructional Strategies
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 4, do you need to make any
adjustments?
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WEEK 4
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• Welcome to Week 4! • This week, you’ll continue working with content from
Mathematical Reasoning. • By the end of this week, you will have reached the
halfway point in your work with the 2014 GED® content areas.
Week 4: Focus
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• Required reading: “Mathematical Reasoning Assessment Targets,” Chapter 2, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pp. 2.21-2.30 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
• Bonus: “Item Types Across Content Areas,” Chapter 1, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pp. 1.6-1.8 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/8e4e6907a5c28f750a55a092e2e1190b.pdf
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• Now, it’s time to put your knowledge to work and get some practice with Mathematical Reasoning items.
• Access the Mathematical Reasoning Item Sampler from http://www.gedtestingservice.com/itemsamplermath/ or the copy that you downloaded and saved to your desktop.
• Use the interactive version to get a sense of the test-taker experience and how items display.
• Ask yourself – What cognitive skills (listing, organizing, inferring) will
test-takers be using?
Week 4: Engage
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• “The most valuable thing I learned in the last two weeks was…”
• “The easiest thing for me to grasp was…” • “The hardest thing for me to grasp was…” • “Now, I would like to know more about…”
Week 4: Discuss
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• Use the template on the next slide to create a table that includes all of the new for 2014 Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications (see pp. 2.79-2.80).
• Consider both your current and potential portfolio of practices. What can you use, adapt, or create?
• As you do this work, you will find learning strategies that you’re already using that will apply to the new specifications and learning strategies that you may have to add.
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2014 Mathematical Reasoning Content Specifications: What’s New
Learning strategies that you already use or may need to develop
• Identify the absolute value of a rational number as its distance from 0 on the number line and determine the distance between two rational numbers on the number line, including using the absolute value of their difference
• Determine when a numerical expression is undefined
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 5, do you need to make any
adjustments?
Week 4 Reflection
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THE FINAL FOUR WEEKS
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Program Overview
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Reasoning Through
Language Arts,
Weeks 1&2
Mathematical Reasoning, Weeks 3&4
Science, Weeks 5&6
Social Studies,
Weeks 7&8
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In the last four weeks of the program, you’ll concentrate on the last two content areas
– Science
– Social Studies
The last four weeks
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WEEK 5
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• Welcome to Week 5! • This week, you’ll begin your work with content from
Science.
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Science • Applying scientific reasoning skills to content drawn
from the three domains of Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science.
• Understanding scientific content that pertains to two focusing themes: “health and the human body” and “energy.”
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The new GED® test of science
A focus on: • Life science (40%), physical science (40%), and
Earth and space science (20%) • Items will test textual analysis and understanding,
data representation and inference skills, as well as problem solving with science content, 50% in scenarios
• Each item aligned to both one Science Practice and one Content Topic
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• Read complex text • Identify precise details • Determine cause and effect • Identify evidence within the text that
– Supports inferences – Enables them to draw conclusions
• Understand science content – Disruption of ecosystems and extinction
• Produce a response that provides an explanation supported by evidence
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Short Answers in Science
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Science Test MC Item Science Test SA Item Identify which step (out of four listed) would produce a particular outcome in a scientific process?
Design an experiment to test the hypothesis (given in the stimulus). Be sure to include descriptions of your data collection process and data analysis in your response.
Advantages: SA items allow assessment of a higher level of cognitive complexity because they require test-takers to express a response in their own words.
Tasks that appear in short answer items more like problems test-takers encounter in their daily lives.
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• View the "Exploring the Science Module of the 2014 GED® Test” webinar (January 30, 2013) http://www.gedtestingservice.com/exploring-the-2014-ged-test-webinar-archive
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• What conclusions did you reach after reviewing the Science Content Specifications comparing the 2002 and 2014 GED® test?
• Were the similarities or differences those you were expecting?
• What implications could the similarities and differences have for how you think about preparing students?
Week 5: Discuss
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Instructions 1. Review the Science Practices (pages 2.81-2.82) as
well as the Science Topics (pages 2.83-2.85). 2. Select three to five that challenge or interest you. 3. Create a table like the one on the next slide that lists
of the content specifications you’ve selected. You’ll notice that there is a column to record current and potential strategies.
4. Fill in the table for your selected Science Practices or Content Topics.
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2002 Science Practices or Content Topics
Current Instructional Strategies
2014 Science Practices or Content Topics
Potential Instructional Strategies
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 6, do you need to make any
adjustments?
Week 5 Reflection
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WEEK 6
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• Welcome to Week 6! • This week, you’ll continue working with Science
content. • You have reached the three-quarter mark with your
work with the 2014 GED® content areas.
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• Required reading: “Science Assessment Targets,” Chapter 2, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.31-2.39 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
• Bonus: “Item Types Across Content Areas,” Chapter 1, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 1.8-1.10 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/8e4e6907a5c28f750a55a092e2e1190b.pdf
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2014 SS Extended Response Rubric
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• There is one extended response in the Social Studies module.
• A rubric has been developed for the Social Studies Extended Response as well.
• However, the traits are still: • Trait 1: Analysis of arguments and use of evidence
• Trait 2: Development of ideas and structure
• Trait 3: Clarity and command of standard English conventions
Key takeaways
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• On the Social Studies Extended Response – Trait 1 is scored from 0 – 2 – Trait 2 is scored 0 – 1 and – Trait 3 is scored 0 – 1
• Four (4) raw score points are possible for an extended response the Social Studies test.
• The Social Studies Extended Response item is also weighted in determining the final test score.
Key takeaways (con’t)
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• Now, it’s time to put your knowledge to work and get some practice with Science items.
• Access the Science Item Sampler from http://www.gedtestingservice.com/itemsamplerscience/ or the copy that you downloaded and saved to your desktop.
• Use the interactive version to get a sense of the test-taker experience and how items display.
• Ask yourself – What cognitive skills (listing, organizing, inferring)
will test-takers be using?
Week 6: Engage
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• “The most valuable thing I learned in the last two weeks was…”
• “The easiest thing for me to grasp was…” • “The hardest thing for me to grasp was…” • “Now, I would like to know more about…”
Week 6: Discuss
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• Use the template on the next slide to create a table that includes all the new for 2014 Science Practices and Content Topics (see page 2.84).
• Consider both your current and potential portfolio of practices. What can you use, adapt, or create?
• As you do this work, you will find learning strategies that you’re already using that will apply to the new specifications and learning strategies that you may have to add.
Week 6: Practice
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Week 6: Practice (the template)
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2014 Science Practices and Content Topics: What’s New
Learning strategies that you already use or may need to develop
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 7, do you need to make any
adjustments?
Week 6 Reflection
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WEEK 7
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• Welcome to Week 7! • This week, you’ll begin working with content from
Social Studies.
Week 7
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Social Studies • Applying social studies reasoning skills to content
drawn from the four domains of Civics and Government, United States History, Economics, and Geography and the World.
• Analyzing source documents and interpreting data represented in a variety of social-studies-relevant ways, including maps, graphs and tables.
Week 7: Focus
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The new GED® test of social studies Focus: Civics and government (50%); US history
(20%); economics (15%); and geography and the world (15%)
What’s tested: Textual analysis and understanding; data representation and inference skills; as well as problem solving with social studies content; 50% in scenarios
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Social Studies • Read complex text • Use prior knowledge about the concept in the text, i.e.,
sustainability • Interpret multiple graphs • Understand how qualitative data in text related to
quantitative data in chart • Determine which graphs illustrate concepts from the
text
What students will need to do
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• Required reading: “The GED® Test: A Content Comparison Between 2002 and 2014,” (Appendix D of The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.86-2.91 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/2487f6e1ca5659684cbe1f8b16f564d0.pdf
• Bonus: “What is Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Model?” Chapter 2, pages 1.10-1.12 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
Week 7: Read
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• View "Exploring the Social Studies Module of the 2014 GED® Test” webinar (January 22, 2013) http://www.gedtestingservice.com/exploring-the-2014-ged-test-webinar-archive
Week 7: Engage
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• What conclusions did you reach after reviewing the Social Studies Practices and Content Topics comparing the 2002 and 2014 GED® test?
• Were the similarities or differences those you were expecting?
• What implications could the similarities and differences have for how you think about preparing students?
Week 7: Discuss
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Instructions 1. Review the Social Studies Practices (pages
2.86-2.87) as well as the Social Studies Content Topics (pages 2.88-2.89).
2. Select three to five that challenge or interest you. 3. Create a table like the one on the next slide that lists
of the practices and content topics you’ve selected. You’ll notice that there is a column to record current and potential strategies.
4. Fill in the table for your selected Social Studies Practices or Social Studies Content Topics.
Week 7: Practice
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2002 Social Studies Practices or Content Topics
Current Instructional Strategies
2014 Social Studies Practices or Content Topics
Potential Instructional Strategies
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you move into Week 8, do you need to make any
adjustments?
Week 7 Reflection
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WEEK 8
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• Welcome to Week 8—the final week in the program! • This week, you’ll continue working with content from
Social Studies. • By the end of this week, you will have completed an
important phase of your work with the 2014 GED® content areas.
Week 8: Focus
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• Required reading: “Social Studies Assessment Targets,” Chapter 2, The Assessment Guide for Educators, November 2012 release, pages 2.31-2.32 http://www.gedtestingservice.com/uploads/files/01a5080ec229f44607e92ecbf01cc26f.pdf
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Week 8: Read
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• Now, it’s time to put your knowledge to work and get some practice with Social Studies items.
• Access the Social Studies Item Sampler from http://www.gedtestingservice.com/itemsamplerss/ or the copy that you downloaded and saved to your desktop.
• Use the interactive version to get a sense of the test-taker experience and how items display.
• Ask yourself – What cognitive skills (listing, organizing, inferring)
will test-takers be using?
Week 8: Engage
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• “The most valuable thing I learned in the last two weeks was…”
• “The easiest thing for me to grasp was…” • “The hardest thing for me to grasp was…” • “Now, I would like to know more about…”
Week 8: Discuss
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• Use the template on the next slide to create a table that includes all the new for 2014 Social Studies Practices and Content Topics (see page 2.84).
• Consider both your current and potential portfolio of practices. What can you use, adapt, or create?
• As you do this work, you will find learning strategies that you’re already using that will apply to the new specifications and learning strategies that you may have to add.
Week 8: Practice
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Week 8: Practice (the template)
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2014 Social Studies Practices and Content Topics: What’s New
Learning strategies that you already use or may need to develop
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• Take stock of this week’s work. • Did you achieve your learning objectives? • What activities enhanced your learning? • What if any obstacles did you encounter? • As you complete Week 8, how comfortable to you feel
with the content area information? How can you continue your self-directed learning?
Week 8 Reflection
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QUESTIONS? EMAIL
SUBJECT LINE: EDUCATORS’ SELF-STUDY GUIDE
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