The Test:
You are going to complete a practice SBAC computer based test as a "guest". Unfortunately, this means that you won't get results back, but it will be a good experience for you to experience the types of questions that you might be asked to complete. You are also going to complete an assignment based on the questions that you have to respond to. The link for the test is available here. From this link select "sign in". On the next page, select guest and grade 11. You will do the G11 ELA Practice Test. (not the performance task) Please make sure you log in as a guest and that you select the 11th grade test. I used Chrome as my browser and had no problems.
The assignment:
Number your paper for each question (1-30) and create three columns which will be labeled TEXT, QUESTION TYPE, MY REACTION. Your reactions could be done as a simple ranking like "hard, medium, easy." For example, you might have things like:
Text/ Question Type/ Reaction
1. Read about clothing/ Select sentence/ pretty easy
12. Listen about frogs/ Short response/ hard
15. Read sample text/ Revise for organization/ medium
(My apologies that I don't have time to make my chart example look like an actual chart)
When you are done with the chart, please jot down ideas for the following question.
What do I feel that we need to practice most before the actual SBAC test?
This task will take you a while to complete. If you need to break it up into different sessions, when you sign back in you may just want to click past the questions you have already answered by providing fake answers.
