2015 Released Items: Grade 9 Performance-Based Assessment

Research Simulation Task

The Research Simulation Task requires students to analyze an informational topic through several articles or multimedia stimuli. Students read and respond to a series of questions and synthesize information from multiple sources in order to write an analytic essay.

The 2015 blueprint for PARCC’s grade 9 Research Simulation Task includes nine Evidence-Based Selected Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. This document includes a complete Research Simulation task from an online summative assessment form.

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• Answer key and standards alignment• PDFs of each item with the associated text(s)

Additional related materials not included in this document:

• Sample scored student responses with practice papers• PARCC Scoring Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Items• Guide to English Language Arts/Literacy Released Items: Understanding Scoring• PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment: General Scoring Rules for the 2015 Summative Assessment

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PARCC Release Items Answer and Alignment Document ELA/Literacy Grade 9

Research Simulation Task

Task: Research Simulation Task (RST) Passage(s): Passage "First Notes" from The Great Animal Orchestra, "Sound as My Mentor" from The Great Animal Orchestra; and Excerpt from "Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See"

Item Code Answer(s) Standards/Evidence Statement Alignment

VF645584 Item Type: EBSR Part A: B Part B: C

RI 9.1.2 L 9.4.1

VF645604 Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: C

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.3.2 RI 9.5.1

VF645621 Item Type: EBSR Part A: A Part B: D

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.6.2

VH010459 Item Type: EBSR Part A: C Part B: A

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.6.2 RI 9.5.1

VF645675 Item Type: EBSR Part A: A Part B: C

RI 9.1.2 L 9.4.1

VF645678 Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: C

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.6.2

VF647823 Item Type: TECR

RST 9.1.2 RST 9.2.5

VF645689 Item Type: EBSR Part A: D Part B: D

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.4.1

VF647939 Item Type: EBSR Part A: C Part B: C

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.2.2 RI 9.6.1

VF645764 Item Type: PCR Refer to Grade 6-11 Scoring Rubric

RI 9.1.2 RI 9.2.2 RI 9.5.1 RI 9.6.2 W 9.2 W 9.4—W9.10

VF645584

VF645604

VF645621

VH010459

VF645675

VF645678

VF647823

VF645689

VF647939

VF645764