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Item Specifications
The release of the updated FSA Test Item Specifications is intended to provide greater specificity for item writers in
developing items to be field tested in 2016. The revisions in the specifications will NOT affect the Spring 2015
Florida Standards Assessments. The enhanced explanations, clarifications, and sample items should assist item
writers and other stakeholders in understanding the Florida Standards and the various types of test items that can
be developed to measure student proficiency in the applicable content areas for 2016 and beyond.
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Mathematical Practices:
The Mathematical Practices are a part of each course description for Grades 3-8, Algebra 1,
Geometry, and Algebra 2. These practices are an important part of the curriculum. The
Mathematical Practices will be assessed throughout.
MAFS.K12.MP.1.1:
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9. Table Item The student types numeric values into a given table. The student
may complete the entire table or portions of the table depending on what is
being asked. For paper-based assessments, this item type may be replaced
with another item type that assesses the same standard and can be scanned
and scored electronically.
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Calculators:
General Designations:
Calculator:
Items only appear on Calculator Sessions.
Calculator Neutral:
Items appear on Calculator and No Calculator Sessions.
No Calculator:
Items only appear on No Calculator Sessions.
Types of Calculators:
Grades 36
No calculator permitted for paper-based or computer-based tests.
Grades 78
Online scientific calculator provided in the CBT platform for Sessions 2 and 3 of the Grades 7 and 8
FSA Mathematics tests.
Online calculator may be accessed in the FSA Portal for use in the classroom.
CBT students may request and use a handheld scientific calculator during Sessions 2 and 3. See
below for a list of prohibited functionalities for handheld scientific calculators. Calculators that
allow these prohibited functionalities may not be used.
Students with paper-based accommodations must be provided a handheld scientific calculator for
Sessions 2 and 3. See below for a list of prohibited functionalities for handheld scientific calculators.
Calculators that allow these prohibited functionalities may not be used.
End-of-Course (EOC)
Online scientific calculator provided in the CBT platform for Session 2 of the Algebra 1, Algebra 2,
and Geometry tests.
Online calculator may be accessed in the FSA Portal for use in the classroom.
CBT students may request and use a handheld scientific calculator during Session 2. See below for
a list of prohibited functionalities for handheld scientific calculators. Calculators that allow these
prohibited functionalities may not be used.
Students with paper-based accommodations must be provided a handheld scientific calculator for
Session 2. See below for a list of prohibited functionalities for handheld scientific calculators.
Calculators that allow these prohibited functionalities may not be used.
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Calculator Functionality:
Students will need access to the following calculator functions:
x2
Square root ()
x 3 or x y for Grade 8 and EOCs
e x for Algebra 1 and Algebra 2
Trigonometric functions for Geometry and Algebra 2
log and/or ln for Algebra 2
Students may not use a handheld calculator that has ANY of the following prohibited
functionalities:
CAS (an ability to solve algebraically) or a solver of any kind
regression capabilities
a table
unit conversion other than conversions between degrees and radians (e.g., feet to inches)
ability to simplify radicals
graphing capability
matrices
a display of more than one line
text-editing functionality (edit, copy, cut, and paste)
the ability to perform operations with complex numbers
the ability to perform prime factorization
the ability to find gcd or lcm
wireless or Bluetooth capability or Internet accessibility
QWERTY keyboard or keypad
need for an electrical outlet
calculator peripherals
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Reference Sheets:
Reference sheets and z-tables will be available as online references (in a pop-up window). A paper
version will be available for paper-based tests.
Reference sheets with conversions will be provided for FSA Mathematics assessments in Grades
48 and EOC Mathematics assessments.
There is no reference sheet for Grade 3.
For Grades 4, 6, and 7, Geometry, and Algebra 2, some formulas will be provided on the reference
sheet.
For Grade 5 and Algebra 1, some formulas may be included with the test item if needed to meet
the intent of the standard being assessed.
For Grade 8, no formulas will be provided; however, conversions will be available on a reference
sheet.
For Algebra 2, a z-table will be available.
Grade
3
4
5
6
7
8
Algebra 1
Algebra 2
Geometry
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Conversions
No
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
Some Formulas
No
On Reference Sheet
With Item
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
No
With Item
On Reference Sheet
On Reference Sheet
z-table
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Item Types
Identify and describe relationships among inscribed angles, radii, and chords.
Include the relationship between central, inscribed, and circumscribed
angles; inscribed angles on a diameter are right angles; the radius of a circle
is perpendicular to the tangent where the radius intersects the circle.
Equation Editor May require creating numeric values or expressions.
GRID May require creating circles with specific features.
Multiple Choice May require selecting a value or an expression from a list.
Multiselect May require selecting responses.
Clarification
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Calculator
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Item Type
GRID Hot Spot
Item Types
Derive using similarity the fact that the length of the arc intercepted by an
angle is proportional to the radius, and define the radian measure of the
angle as the constant of proportionality; derive the formula for the area of a
sector.
Editing Task Choice May require choosing a step in a derivation.
Equation Editor May require creating numerical values, expressions, or
equations.
GRID May require creating circles or completing a proof.
Hot Text May require dragging text to complete a proof or ordering steps in
a derivation.
Multiple Choice May require selecting a value or an expression from a list.
Multiselect May require selecting responses.
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Students will use the formula for the area of a sector to solve problems.
The center of dilation must be given.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of measure.
Neutral
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Know precise definitions of angle, circle, perpendicular line, parallel line, and
line segment, based on the undefined notions of point, line, distance along a
line, and distance around a circular arc.
Editing Task Choice May require choosing a definition from an informal
argument.
GRID May require drawing a figure.
Hot Text May require dragging text to complete a justification.
Matching Item May require choosing precise definitions.
Multiple Choice May require selecting a definition.
Multiselect May require selecting responses.
Clarification
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Items may require the student to use properties of rotations, reflections, and
translations as steps to a formal definition.
Neutral
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Item Type
Open Response
Also assesses
MAFS.912.G-CO.1.4
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
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Stimulus Attributes
Response Attributes
Items may ask the student to determine if steps that are given can be used to
develop a definition of an angle, a circle, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, or
line segments by using rotations, reflections, and translations.
Items may require the student to give a coordinate of a transformed figure.
Items may require the student to use a function, e.g., y = k ( f ( x + a )) + b ,
to describe a transformation.
Items may require the student to determine if a verbal description of a
definition is valid.
Items may require the student to determine any flaws in a verbal description
of a definition.
Items may require the student to be familiar with slope-intercept form of a
line, standard form of a line, and point-slope form of a line.
Items may require the student to give a line of reflection and/or a degree of
rotation that carries a figure onto itself.
Calculator
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Item Type
Editing Task Choice
Also assesses
MAFS.912.G-CO.1.3
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Students will describe rotations and reflections that carry a geometric figure
onto itself.
Items should not require the student to find the distance between points.
Items may require the student to be familiar with using the algebraic
description ( x, y ) ( x + a, y + b) for a translation, and ( x, y ) (kx, ky )
for a dilation when given the center of dilation. Items may require the
student to be familiar with the algebraic description for a 90-degree rotation
about the origin, ( x, y ) ( y, x) , for a 180-degree rotation about the
origin, ( x, y ) ( x, y ) , and for a 270-degree rotation about the origin,
( x, y ) ( y, x) . Items that use more than one transformation may ask the
student to write a series of algebraic descriptions.
Items must not use matrices to describe transformations.
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Stimulus Attributes
In items in which the line of reflection is given, any form of a line may be
used. If the line is not a vertical line or a horizontal line, then the line of
reflection must be graphed as a dotted line.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to provide a sequence of transformations.
Response Attributes
Calculator
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Items may require the student to give a degree of rotation that will carry a
figure onto itself.
Neutral
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Item Type
Multiselect
Also assesses
MAFS.912.G-CO.2.7
Also assesses
MAFS.912.G-CO.2.8
Item Types
Clarifications
Open Response May require justifying why two figures are congruent.
Students will use rigid motions to transform figures.
Students will predict the effect of a given rigid motion on a given figure.
Students will use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions to
determine if two figures are congruent.
Students will explain triangle congruence using the definition of congruence
in terms of rigid motions.
Students will apply congruence to solve problems.
Assessment Limits
Students will use congruence to justify steps within the context of a proof.
Items may require the student to justify congruence using the properties of
rigid motion.
In items in which the line of reflection is given, any form of the line may be
used. If the line is not a vertical line or a horizontal line, then the line of
reflection should be graphed as a dotted line.
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Response Attributes
Items may require the student to determine the rigid motions that show that
two triangles are congruent.
Items may ask the student to name corresponding angles and/or sides.
Items may require the student to use a function, e.g., y = k ( f ( x + a )) + b ,
to describe a transformation.
In items in which the student must write the line of reflection, any line may
be used.
Items may require the student to be familiar with slope-intercept form of a
line, standard form of a line, and point-slope form of a line.
Items may require the student to name corresponding angles or sides.
Items may require the student to determine the transformations required to
show a given congruence.
Items may require the student to list sufficient conditions to prove triangles
are congruent.
Items may require the student to determine if given information is sufficient
for congruence.
Calculator
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Items may require the student to give statements to complete formal and
informal proofs.
Neutral
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Item Type
Multiple Choice
Item Types
Prove theorems about lines and angles; use theorems about lines and angles
to solve problems. Theorems include: vertical angles are congruent; when a
transversal crosses parallel lines, alternate interior angles are congruent and
corresponding angles are congruent; points on a perpendicular bisector of a
line segment are exactly those equidistant from the segments endpoints.
Editing Task Choice May require choosing a statement in a narrative proof.
Equation Editor May require creating numerical values, expressions, or
equations.
GRID May require completing a proof as a diagram, such as a flowchart.
Hot Text May require completing a proof by selecting statements.
Matching Item May require choosing true statements about lines and
angles in a diagram.
Multiselect May require identifying statements or values.
Multiple Choice May require selecting from choices.
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
In items that require the student to justify, the student should not be
required to recall from memory the formal name of a theorem.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to give statements and/or justifications to
complete formal and informal proofs.
Items may require the student to justify a conclusion from a construction.
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Neutral
Sample Item
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Item Type
Hot Text Drag and Drop
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Calculator
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In items that require the student to justify, the student should not be
required to recall from memory the formal name of a theorem.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to give statements and/or justifications to
complete formal and informal proofs.
Items may require the student to justify a conclusion from a construction.
Neutral
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Item Type
Hot Text Drag and Drop
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
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In items that require the student to justify, the student should not be
required to recall from memory the formal name of a theorem.
Items may be set in real-world or mathematical context.
March 24, 2015
Calculator
Sample Item
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Item Type
Hot Text Drag and Drop
Also assesses
MAFS.912.G-CO.4.13
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Items should not ask student to find values or use properties of the
geometric figure that is constructed.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to justify why a construction results in the
geometric figure.
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of measure.
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiple Choice
Item Types
Clarification
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiselect
Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve
problems.
Equation Editor May require expressing a numeric value or creating an
expression.
Multiple Choice May require selecting from choices.
Multiselect May require identifying a value or a statement.
Clarification
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attributes
Items may require the student to find a dimension when the volume is
changed.
Items must be set in a real-world context.
Response Attributes
Items may require the student to apply the basic modeling cycle.
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of measure.
Calculator
Items may require the student to apply the basic modeling cycle.
Neutral
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiple Choice
Derive the equation of a circle of given center and radius using the
Pythagorean Theorem; complete the square to find the center and
radius of a circle given by an equation.
Editing Task Choice May require choosing steps in completing the
square of the standard form of a circle expression or in the derivation
of an equation of a circle using the Pythagorean theorem.
Equation Editor May require constructing an equation of a circle.
GRID May require creating circles.
Hot Text May require reordering steps of a derivation.
Multiple Choice May require selecting from choices.
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
Sample Item
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Item Type
Editing Task Choice
Item Types
Clarification
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Items may require the student to use coordinate geometry to provide steps
to a proof of a geometric theorem.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to determine if the algebraic proof is correct.
Neutral
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Item Type
Editing Task Choice
Item Types
Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and use
them to solve geometric problems (e.g., find the equation of a line
parallel or perpendicular to a given line that passes through a given
point).
Equation Editor May require constructing an equation.
Multiple Choice May require selecting from choices.
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Students will find equations of lines using the slope criteria for
parallel and perpendicular lines.
Lines may include horizontal and vertical lines.
Calculator
Items may not ask the student to provide only the slope of a parallel
or perpendicular line.
Items may be set in a real-world or mathematical context.
Items may require the student to be familiar with slope-intercept
form of a line, standard form of a line, and point-slope form of a
line.
Neutral
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Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points
that partitions the segment in a given ratio.
Equation Editor May require identifying a ratio.
GRID May require constructing a graph.
Multiple Choice May require selecting from choices.
Clarification
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Calculator
Sample Item
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
In items that require the student to find the area, the polygon must
be able to be divided into triangles and rectangles.
Items must be set in a real-world context.
Items may require the student to apply the basic modeling cycle.
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of
measure.
Calculator
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Clarifications
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Calculator
Items may require the student to apply the basic modeling cycle.
Neutral
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Item Type
Matching Item
Clarifications
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Calculator
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of
measure.
Neutral
Assessment Limit
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Clarification
Assessment Limits
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attributes
Items that use volume should not also assess G-GMD.1.3 or G-MG.1.1.
Items must be set in a real-world context.
Items may require the student to interpret the results of a solution within
the context of the modeling situation.
Items may require the student to apply the basic modeling cycle.
Calculator
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Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of measure.
Neutral
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Item Type
Equation Editor
Item Types
Clarifications
Table Item May require generating tables and creating dilations based on
scale factor input values.
When dilating a line that does not pass through the center of dilation,
students will verify that the dilated line is parallel.
When dilating a line that passes through the center of dilation, students will
verify that the line is unchanged.
Assessment Limits
When dilating a line segment, students will verify that the dilated line
segment is longer or shorter with respect to the scale factor.
Items may use line segments of a geometric figure.
The center of dilation and scale factor must be given.
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiselect
Item Types
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiselect
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Multiple Choice
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attribute
Response Attribute
Calculator
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Item Type
Editing Task Choice
Clarifications
Assessment Limit
Stimulus Attributes
Response Attributes
For G-SRT.3.8, items may require the student to apply the basic modeling
cycle.
Items may require the student to find equivalent ratios.
Items may require the student to use or choose the correct unit of measure.
Multiple-choice options may be written as a trigonometric equation.
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Calculator
Equation Editor items may require the student to use the inverse
trigonometric function to write an expression.
Neutral
Sample Item
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Item Type
Equation Editor
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opposite
hypotenuse
adjacent
hypotenuse
opposite
adjacent
1
V = Bh
3
4
V = 3
3
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