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New Jersey PASS Test
New Jersey PASS TEST Grades 1
and 2
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GRADE LEVELS |
TEST
DATES
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Grade 1 & 2 |
May 20 - 22 |
What does “NJPASS” stand for?
- New Jersey Proficiency Assessment of State
Standards
What type of assessment is the NJPASS?
- Criterion-referenced with multiple test item
formats – multiple choice and open-ended writing tasks, and revise and edit
tasks.
What does the NJPASS measure?
- Student mastery toward meeting the New Jersey Core
Curriculum Content Standards
What content areas does the NJPASS
test?
- Language Arts and Mathematics
Why should administrators test
students with the NJPASS?
- To assess how students are progressing toward
meeting the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards by which they will
be measure on the NJASK.
How does the NJPASS help teachers?
- Identifies student strengths and weaknesses in
language arts and mathematics so that teachers can make classroom
instruction more effective
How does the NJPASS help students?
- Gives an authentic testing experience with test
content that is developmentally appropriate and closely aligned to the New
Jersey Core Curriculum and Content Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS
What do the language arts assessments
measure?
- Student mastery toward meeting the New Jersey Core
Curriculum Content Standards for Language Arts Literacy
- Student abilities in reading, writing, and
listening (listening only measure in grades 1 & 2)
- Working with the Passage – Students demonstrate the
ability to apply the particular reading skills associated with comprehending
and passage, such as recognizing the main idea, supporting details, and
organization of text; paraphrasing meaning; and getting information
- Analyzing the Passage – Students demonstrate the
ability to analyze and evaluate the passage using skills such as asking
question, predicting meaning, developing opinions, drawing conclusions, and
interpreting conventions of print
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Writing – Content, Development, and Language Conventions – Students
demonstrate the ability to respond to specific writing tasks by writing a
story or persuasive letter or essay. They also demonstrate the
ability to revise and edit a passage.
What kind of assessment activities are
students engaged in for the language arts sessions?
- Responding to a writing prompt based on a picture
- Responding to a writing prompt based on a poem
- Listening to a passage and answering questions
about what they have heard
- Answering questions (multiple-choice and
open-ended) about what they have read
What kinds of passages appear on the
language arts tests?
- All passages are taken from previously published
literature
- Fiction, non-fiction, essays, poetry – representing
a variety of literacy forms
- Passages reflecting high quality, multicultural and
gender diversity, grade-level appropriateness, and interest for students in
New Jersey
MATHEMATICS
What do the Mathematics assessments
measure?
- Student mastery toward meeting the New Jersey
Content Standards for Mathematics
- “Skills” form the framework for measuring student
progress in meeting the content Standards: Number Sense, Operations, and
Properties; Measurement; Spatial Sense and Geometry; Data Analysis,
Probability, and Discrete Mathematics; patterns and Algebra
What kind of assessment activities are
students engaged in for the Mathematics sessions?
- Open-ended questions require students to
demonstrate their knowledge of grade-level Mathematics content through
questions that ask them to show their work or explain their reasoning
- Students are asked to communicate mathematically,
by creating graphs or showing multi-step solutions
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