SURVEY+QUESTIONS+FOR+PRE-+POST-+TEST

Hi All, If you plan to include questions on this page, please note that they must measure skill gain. They are not to be perceptual. Multiple choice items are preferable as they pertain to the specific content area you are instructing.

Thanks, Polly and Greg

**__THESE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN REVISED__**

Section 1

1. What are College and Career Readiness standards?

A. Standards that are specific to individual grades levels and only exist in grades 6 - 12. B. Standards that are specific to individual grade levels and exist throughout all grades pre K - 12. C. Standards that are not grade level specific, but span only grades 6 - 12. (Answer on Page 4 in MCFELAL)
 * D. Standards that are not grade level specific and span grades pre K - 12. **

2. Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the anchor standards?

A. Each grade-specific standard is unique, bearing no connection to the same-numbered anchor standard. B. The anchor standards are all different, therefore the numbers associated with each standard are irrelevant. C. Only some grade-specific standards correspond to their same-numbered anchor standard, depending upon whether the grades are pre K - 5 or 6 - 12. (Answer on Page 10 in MCFELAL)
 * D. Each grade-specific standard corresponds to its same-numbered anchor standard and is tuned to the literacy requirements of its particular discipline(s). **

3. Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the Reading standards.

A. The Reading standards place less emphasis on the sophistication of what students read than the skill with which they read. C. The Reading standards place more emphasis on the sophistication of what students read than the skill with which they read. D. The Reading standards place no emphasis on the sophistication of what students read. (Answer on Page 10 of MCFELAL)
 * B. The Reading standards place equal emphasis on the sophistication of what students read and the skill with which they read. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. The new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy discusses using digital texts, including the Internet as:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. A separate curriculum component listed in the appendix for additional reference. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. The new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy do not mention the Internet. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. A content area skill that is introduced, with assistance in third grade. (Answer on Page 7, 9 in Guiding Principle 3 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. As a necessary component that needs to be embedded in all content areas. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. To become college and career ready, students must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations—as part of a whole class, in small groups, and with a partner—built around important content in various domains. They must be able to contribute appropriately to these conversations, to make comparisons and contrasts, and to analyze and synthesize a multitude of ideas in accordance with the standards of evidence appropriate to a particular discipline.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which digital tool can best help students and teachers reach outside the wall of the classroom to engage in “rich, structured conversation”.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Glogster <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Animoto <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Twitter (Answer on Page 7, Guiding Principle 5 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Blogger **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy recognizes that: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Students must convey messages in words and images using digital tools. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Students cannot effectively communicate with digital tools. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. That print resources are the cornerstone of a curriculum. (Answer inferred from Page 4 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Digital tools have not shifted the fundamentals of content area learning. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Please mark the following statement as true or false: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Each College and Career Readiness anchor standard has an accompanying grade-specific standard translating the broader anchor standard statement into grade-appropriate end-of-year expectations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">___ (Answer on Page 10 of MCFFELAL)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Please select the following Reading anchor standards that require students to recognize various forms of content, especially content not limited to print? (You may choose more than one response) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Key Ideas and Details: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Craft and Structure: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of text. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Integration of Ideas and Knowledge: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. (Answer on Page 13 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Integration of Ideas and Knowledge: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Which strand of the new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy requires students to use digital media to enhance presentations: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Reading: Text Complexity and the Growth of Comprehension <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Writing: Text Types, Responding to Reading, and Research <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Language: Conventions, Effective Use, and Vocabulary (Answer on Page 29 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Speaking and Listening: Flexible Communication and Collaboration **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. According to the new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy, what is a characteristic of a literate person in the 21st century? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Ability to pick through a large amount of information available today in print and digitally. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Has a command of over a half a million academic vocabulary words. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Attend to more informational than literary texts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Able to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate information. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. The new Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. consists entirely of the Common Core Standards. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. adopted the Common Core Standards, but have maintained more than 90% of our original standards. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. is completely different from the Common Core Standards. (Answer on Page 3 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. has adopted the Common Core Standards while maintaining a small percentage of the original learning standards that are unique from the Common Core Standards. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Consider anchor standard 8: “Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Which of the following tools would be best to use if a student were gathering information for a research paper?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. Prezi <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C. Glogster <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. VoiceThread (Answer on 23 of MCFFELAL)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. Showing Evidence **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Section 2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. I am confident in having my students demonstrate their writing skills and comprehension of text in ways other than written response. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. I could easily define a career and college readiness anchor standard to another teacher or peer. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. I understand how digital texts and tools align to the standards in the new MA Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. I am familiar with the structural changes to the new MA Curriculum Framework for ELA and Literacy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. I am nervous about my students collaborating with one another using online technology/tools for completing reading and writing activities. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. I can teach my students to use online resources to interact with other learners for the purpose of improving their literacy skills. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. I understand how digital texts enhance my ability to track knowledge gains. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. I am able to utilize collaborative writing assignments to improve writing instruction. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. I understand the unique skills and strategies required to read in online environments. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. I am hesitant to allow students to use the Internet to publish writing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. I can teach students to gather relevant materials from both print and digital sources. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. I can teach students to assess the credibility and accuracy of sources. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. I am able to utilize digital texts to explore the relationships between information and ideas.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strongly Disagree <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Disagree <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Neither Agree or Disagree <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Agree <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Strongly Agree