Available Now: Formative Item Bank in OAS
Purpose of the Formative Item Bank
To provide teachers with assessment and instructional resources that are aligned to CCGPS and reflect its rigor
To provide items and tasks for teachers to use in order to assess students’ knowledge while they are learning the curriculum
To assess students’ conceptual and skill-level understanding
To provide items and tasks that require students to
Apply the content they know to real world problems
Express logical reasoning by writing, showing their work and/or explaining their answer
To balance the use of formative and summative assessments in the classroom
Contents of the Formative Item Bank (Current Content in the Formative Item Bank: November 2012)
About 750+ Formative Classroom Assessment Items
Grades 3 through High School
Math and ELA
Open-ended
Scaffolded
Extended Responses
Selected Response
Focused more on Depth of Knowledge levels 3 and 4
How to Access the Formative Item Bank
Items may be searched in two ways:
Items are housed in the OAS and may be accessed by using the “build a test” function in the OAS. This function allows teachers to “shop” for items by subject area, grade, and primary standard.
Many of the constructed-response items are aligned to multiple standards. To assist teachers in locating items that reflect multiple standards, an external item search tool has been created that will allow teachers to search for items by a specific standard. Item ID then can be entered into the OAS and the item can be directly located. Click on "Download Item Search Tool" to install the tool to your desktop.