Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) Michigan Merit Exam (MME)

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Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
Michigan Merit Exam (MME)

• English Language Arts Update

10/25/06
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Grade 3 Reading Assessment

• Measuring state-assessable reading GLCE for K-2
• Paired reading selections
• Text 1 (8 m.c. items) Text 2 (8 m.c. items)
• 5 cross-text m.c. items
• 6-point Response to Reading (2 pages max)
• Independent reading selection
• Text 3 8 m.c. items
• Total 35 reading points

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Grades 4-8 Reading Assessments

• Measuring state-assessable reading GLCE
• Paired reading selections
• Text 1 (8 m.c. items) Text 2 (8 m.c. items)
• 5 cross-text m.c. items
• 6-point Response to Reading (2 pages max)
• Independent reading selection
• Text 3 8 m.c. items
• Linking text from previous grade 8 m.c. items
• Total 43 reading points

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Grades 4-8 Linking Reading Texts

• Linking texts Text 1, 2, or 3 from previous
  grade with the associated 8 m.c. items
• Approved for and field-tested in lower grade
• Not a mistake
• To study growth for groups of students
• Linking items are scored, and reported, but do
  not count toward the students scale scores or
  proficiency levels

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Grades 3-8 Reading Items/Domains

• Grade 3 35 total points across 3 texts
• 29 m.c. items WS NT IT CM CS
• 6-point Response to Reading (CM)
• Grades 4-8 43 total points across 4 texts
• 37 m.c. items WS NT IT CM CS
• 6-point Response to Reading (CM)
• GLCE code

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Writing Grades 3-8

• Writing from Knowledge and Experience
• 6-point holistic rubric
• Students choose genre, format of response
• Two pages max
• No resources
• Scored as first draft, not polished response
• Student writing sample
• Peer response (4-point rubric)
• Five multiple-choice (m.c.) editing and revising
  items

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S07 HSTs in Reading and Writing

• Seniors get one last shot at MEAP
• Reading
• Texts 1 and 2 with nine associated m.c. items
  each
• Cross-text 7 m.c. items, plus one response
• Writing
• Writing from Knowledge and Experience
• Reporting and Reflecting

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MME Reading Components
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ACT Reading

• 4 texts, 40 questions, 35 minutes
• Literary
• Social science
• Humanities
• Natural science

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ACT Reading Items

• Items ask students to
• determine main ideas and significant details
• understand sequence of events
• make comparisons
• comprehend cause-effect relationships
• determine meaning in context of words, phrases,
  statements
• draw generalizations
• analyze author's/narrator's voice/method

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ACT WorkKeys Reading for Information

• 33 items, 45 minutes
• measures skills used when reading and using
  written text to do a job
• memos, letters, directions, signs, notices,
  bulletins, policies, regulations
• not necessarily well-written or targeted to
  appropriate audience
• all text, no graphics

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MME Writing Components
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ACT Writing

• Persuasive writing
• Given issue
• Given two perspectives on issue
• 6-pt. rubric
• Scored by two ACT scorers

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ACT English

• 75 multiple-choice items, 45 minutes
• Includes items that ask students
• to be aware of writing style
• about specific portions of underlined text and
  elements of writing, such as tone or emphasis, in
  that portion
• about whole sections or whole passages with no
  underlined parts
• about more than one aspect of writing

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Double-scoring the Social Studies Response How
Does It Work?

• For MME Social Studies
• Scored by two independent MME scorers, using
  standard MEAP social studies 5-pt. rubric
• Scored for social studies content
• Contributes to MME social studies total score

• For MME Writing
• Scored by two independent MME scorers, using new
  MME 6-pt. persuasive writing rubric
• Scored for persuasive writing
• Contributes to MME total writing score

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Tips for Improvement

• Teach your curriculum year-round!
• Dont limit yourselves to teaching the assessable
  content.
• Dont drill and kill just before the test!
• Watch for Released Items on our website
  (www.michigan.gov/meap)
• Compare scoring guides to the rumors about how
  you, too, can raise your MEAP scores.
• Call us to check on rumors. Rumor control is a
  big part of our job!

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Contact Information

• Jane Faulds
• English Language Arts Assessment Consultant,
  MDE/MEAP
• fauldsj_at_michigan.gov
• For more information
• about MEAP, go to www.michigan.gov/meap
• about MME, go to www.michigan.gov/oeaa
• about ACT, go to www.act.org