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Connecticut Academic Performance Test - Second Generation, Science Handbook, 2001 (143 pp.)

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Individual Chapters in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Front Cover, Inside Front Cover, Inside Back Cover (3 pp.)
  
  
• Title Page, Contents, Foreward, Preface, Acknowledgements (8 pp.)
  
  
• Part I: Background, Introduction, The Nature of Science, Overview of Student Testing Program, Why teach Open-ended, Problem-Solving Activities, Open-Ended, Problem-Solving Activities: A Description (10 pp.)
  
  
• Part II: CAPT Second Generation, CAPT Overview, The Science Assessment, The CAPT Science Framework, Curriculum Alignment Issues, Instructional Strategies (18 pp.)
  
  
• Part III: Sample Items, Sample Items [Introduction], A Framework for the Second Generation of the CAPT Science Assessment, Ecosystems (7 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Ecosystems (continued)(4 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Genetics and Evolution, Cells, Human Biology (14 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Structure of Matter, Reactions and Interactions (11 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Forces and Motion, Energy Sources and Transformations (10 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Astronomy (5 pp.)
• Sample Items (continued), Earth's Natural Resources, Meteorology, Earth History and Dynamics (11 pp.)
  
  
• Part IV: 2000 Science Performance Task, 2000 Science Performance Task [Introduction], 200 CAPT Performance Task: Apple Juice, Directions for Writing your Laboratory Report, CAPT Experimentation Questions: Apple Juice, Apple Juice Items 1-4, Scoring Rubric for Open-Ended Items (10 pp.)
• Sample Student Responses for Experimentation Questions: "Apple Juice" (10 pp.)
  • "Apple Juice" (continued) (5 pp.)
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  • "Apple Juice" (continued) ( 5 pp.)