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Download full textDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2002
The Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) is designed to assess progress toward the Delaware Content Standards. Every year a certain number of items are removed from the test and then selected for public release. This booklet contains items released from the 2001 administration of the DSTP Science tests for grades 8 and 11. It contains examples…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Sciences, Secondary Education, State Programs
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. Assessment and Accountability Branch. – 2003
This guide contains materials to help Delaware educators understand and use reports from the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP). The DSTP tests are tied to the Delaware content standards that define the knowledge and skills required for students to progress beyond high school. In spring 2003, the DSTP reading, writing, and mathematics tests…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Scores, State Programs, Teachers
Zhang, Yanling – 2002
A study was conducted to investigate how differential item functioning (DIF) is associated with student characteristics such as gender and ethnicity for the total group and to understand the pattern and nature of existing group differences by conducting DIF analyses separately within gender and ethnicity. The research is unique in that it…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity, Item Bias
Zhang, Liru – 2000
A study investigated possible reasons for the low performance in 2000 on the writing portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) by students, especially in grades 3 and 5. The study also investigated ways to improve classroom instruction in writing. A panel of teachers reviewed the anchor papers and the process of testing. Panel members…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Test Content
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2002
The Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) is designed to assess progress toward the Delaware Content Standards. Every year a certain number of items are removed from the test and then selected for public release. This booklet contains multiple-choice and short-answer (constructed response) items released from the 2000 or 2001 administration of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 11, Grade 8, Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. – 1999
The purpose of this writing sampler is to familiarize Delaware teachers and students with the major writing portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program. Included for each grade level (3, 5, 8, and 10) are the original prompt and an example of exemplary student work. Although the intent was to include student work for each of the rubric score…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Student Evaluation
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2001
The purpose of this document is to familiarize educators and parents with the text-based portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) writing assessment for third grade. The DSTP writing assessment consists of one "stand-alone" writing prompt (representing 2/3 of the overall writing score) and one "text-based" prompt…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 3, Primary Education, State Standards
Delaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2002
The Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) is designed to assess progress toward the Delaware Content Standards. Every year a certain number of items are removed from the test and then selected for public release. This booklet contains items released from the 1998 administration of the DSTP mathematics component tests. Taken as a whole, these…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Mathematics Tests
PDF pending restorationDelaware State Dept. of Education, Dover. – 2001
The purpose of this writing sampler is to provide teachers and students with work representing each of the rubric score points for the stand alone writing prompt on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program. The student papers included in this document are part of the "anchor sets" (collections of scored student work "anchored"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Student Evaluation
Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. – 1999
The purpose of this reading sampler is to familiarize Delaware teachers and students with the reading comprehension portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program. Included is information about the reading tests for grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. This sampler contains the following examples for each grade level: a reading passage; a multiple choice…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
