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Overview and strategies for preparing students for open-ended PSSA math questions.
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Amanda Warfield
Wilkes University
EDIM510
• Students take 4 OE questions
• Students are scored on 3 OE questions
• OE questions are scored on 0 - 4 scale
• OE questions account for 17% of
a student’s total PSSA score
Information: Pennsylvania Department of Education
• Show or explain all your work.
• Show all your work. Explain why
you did each step.
• Explain why…
• Describe how…
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Information: Pennsylvania Department of Education
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• Sometimes students need guidance
• Model how you would tackle the
problem
• Give the students tips and
strategies
• Give the students a template to follow
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• Allow students to work together
• Students can communicate about the problem
• Students can learn from each other
• Students feel less threatened and
more willing to try
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• Have students post their solution to
a class blog or discussion board
• Increase motivation to do well
• Much harder to type math “work”
• Requires a thorough explanation
• Fun way to engage students
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• Have the students create an audio
recording of their solution
• Have the students post it to
a class website or wiki
• Increase motivation to do well
• Requires a thorough explanation
• Another fun way to engage students
Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Pennsylvania state assessments 2012
[PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/
server.pt/community/pennsylvania_
system_of_school_assessment
_(pssa)/8757/resource_materials/507610