MATHEMATICS SCORING POLICIES FOR 4^TH AND 8^TH GRADE

• If the question does not specifically direct students to show their work, teachers may not score any work that the student shows.

• If the question requires students to show their work and a student shows appropriate work and identifies a correct answer but fails to write that answer in the answer blank provided, the student should receive full credit.

• If the question requires students to show their work and a student shows appropriate work and arrives at the correct answer, but writes an incorrect answer in the answer blank, the student should not receive full credit.

• If the student gives one legible response, even if it is crossed out, teachers should score the response.

• If there are two or more responses with some crossed out, teachers should score only the response not crossed out.

• Always, whenever there is a place for two numerical answers, if there is one correct answer and no work – it is a 0. If there are two correct numerical answers and no work – it is a 1.

• Always, whenever there is a place for one numerical answer and work shown, one correct numerical answer with no work shown – it is a 1.