| Dartmouth - GRADE 05 SCIENCE AND TECH/ENG |
| ITEM INFORMATION | | PERCENT OF DISTRICT'S POSSIBLE POINTS |
| ITEM | TYPE | REPORTING CATEGORY | STANDARD | ITEM DESC | | POSSIBLE POINTS | DARTMOUTH | STATE | DISTRICT-STATE DIFFERENCE |
| 1 | SR | PS | 5.PS.1.3 | Analyze data from an investigation to determine which substances were mixed together. | | 1 | 48% | 45% | 3 |
| 2 | SR | ES | 5.ESS.3.2 | Describe what observation students should make to determine how well a simple water filter works. | | 1 | 81% | 67% | 14 |
| 3 | SR | LS | 5.LS.1.1 | Describe how plants use energy from the Sun to convert air and water into sugar. | | 1 | 68% | 63% | 5 |
| 4 | SR | TE | 3.ETS.1.2 | Determine how a composter could be improved to break down waste more efficiently. | | 1 | 58% | 56% | 2 |
| 5 | SR | LS | 5.LS.2.1 | Identify bacteria as decomposers and identify the role of decomposers. | | 1 | 74% | 66% | 8 |
| 6 | CR | TE | 3.ETS.1.4 | Describe advantages of different representations of a design solution and, given a design solution, describe one disadvantage of it. | | 3 | 51% | 51% | 0 |
| 7 | SR | ES | 5.ESS.3.1 | Determine a way to reduce the amount of water used from a town's water supply. | | 1 | 75% | 75% | 0 |
| 8 | SR | LS | 3.LS.4.1 | Compare fossils in rock layers to determine which fossils are oldest and determine why scientists study fossils. | | 2 | 77% | 74% | 3 |
| 9 | SR | TE | 4.ETS.1.3 | Determine what should be measured to test how well a design solution meets a criterion of the design problem. | | 1 | 68% | 61% | 7 |
| 10 | SR | PS | 3.PS.2.3 | Determine the question that students were trying to answer during an investigation with magnets. | | 1 | 59% | 58% | 1 |
| 11 | SR | ES | 3.ESS.2.2 | Compare climate data from different regions and determine which region is a tropical rainforest. | | 1 | 79% | 74% | 5 |
| 12 | SR | LS | 3.LS.4.2 | Complete a model that shows how variations in characteristics among individuals in the same population may provide a survival advantage in a given environment. | | 1 | 73% | 70% | 3 |
| 13 | SR | PS | 4.PS.4.2 | Select a model that shows how a person sees an object. | | 1 | 56% | 57% | -1 |
| 14 | SR | LS | 3.LS.3.1 | Describe how plants have traits that are inherited, with variations in these traits existing within the population. | | 1 | 56% | 54% | 2 |
| 15 | SR | PS | 5.PS.2.1 | Determine the direction of the gravitational force exerted on objects located at different locations on Earth. | | 1 | 53% | 56% | -3 |
| 16 | SR | ES | 5.ESS.1.2 | Describe Earth's movement relative to the Sun at different times of year. | | 1 | 45% | 49% | -4 |
| 17 | CR | PS | 4.PS.3.2 | Describe how different types of energy are converted into other types of energy in a given setup. | | 3 | 24% | 25% | -1 |
| 18 | CR | ES | 5.ESS.2.2 | Distinguish between freshwater and saltwater sources and compare the relative amount of each. | | 2 | 39% | 41% | -2 |
| 19 | SR | LS | 3.LS.4.4 | Identify how a change in a habitat may affect the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce. | | 1 | 79% | 75% | 4 |
| 20 | SR | TE | 5.ETS.3.2 | Interpret a diagram to determine the function of part of a device. | | 1 | 59% | 56% | 3 |
| 21 | SR | TE | 3.ETS.1.4 | Identify the most helpful representation for a design solution. | | 1 | 96% | 93% | 3 |
| 22 | SR | PS | 5.PS.1.2 | Complete a model to show the mass of a substance after a phase change. | | 1 | 60% | 61% | -1 |
| 23 | SR | TE | 5.ETS.3.1 | Distinguish between an innovation and an invention given descriptions of two technologies. | | 1 | 52% | 50% | 2 |
| 24 | CR | LS | 5.LS.2.1 | Analyze a food web to describe how matter moves through the food web and how changes to one population would affect another. | | 3 | 69% | 63% | 6 |
| 25 | CR | LS | 4.LS.1.1 | Identify a trait that helps provide camouflage to an organism and describe how another trait helps the organism survive in its environment. | | 2 | 76% | 69% | 7 |
| 26 | SR | ES | 4.ESS.3.1 | Describe how humans use energy and fuels and distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. | | 2 | 57% | 51% | 6 |
| 27 | SR | TE | 4.ETS.1.5 | Analyze a design and identify the property that is most important to consider for the design. | | 1 | 79% | 76% | 3 |
| 28 | SR | PS | 4.PS.3.3 | Analyze data to determine which conditions will produce a louder sound during a collision. | | 1 | 80% | 76% | 4 |
| 29 | SR | PS | 5.PS.1.1 | Identify the cause of ice melting at room temperature. | | 1 | 36% | 44% | -8 |
| 30 | SR | PS | 4.PS.3.4 | Identify how a device can be changed to test how stored energy affects the motion of the device. | | 1 | 62% | 54% | 8 |
| 31 | SR | ES | 4.ESS.1.1 | Describe how features of a given landscape provide evidence about the role of deposition in the landscape's formation. | | 1 | 44% | 48% | -4 |
| 32 | SR | ES | 5.ESS.2.1 | Complete a model of the water cycle by labeling different parts of the model. | | 1 | 77% | 67% | 10 |
| 33 | SR | ES | 4.ESS.2.1 | Identify evidence of rocks being broken into smaller pieces through weathering. | | 1 | 56% | 50% | 6 |
| 34 | CR | ES | 3.ESS.2.1 | Make claims about seasonal weather in an area and support the claims with evidence from given data tables. | | 3 | 42% | 38% | 4 |
| 35 | SR | TE | 3.ESS.3.1 | Determine what should be considered when designing a solution to reduce damage caused by flooding. | | 1 | 76% | 74% | 2 |
| 36 | SR | TE | 4.ESS.3.2 | Determine which design solution will work best for a given situation. | | 1 | 68% | 65% | 3 |
| 37 | SR | PS | 3.PS.2.1 | Determine which diagrams show balanced and unbalanced forces acting on an object and identify what occurs when forces acting on an object are balanced. | | 2 | 75% | 75% | 0 |
| 38 | SR | LS | 3.LS.1.1 | Determine when a plant and an animal are going through the same life cycle stage. | | 1 | 68% | 65% | 3 |
| 39 | SR | PS | 4.PS.4.1 | Determine the type of energy transferred by water waves. | | 1 | 83% | 74% | 9 |
| 40 | SR | TE | 3.ETS.1.1 | Determine the problem a given structure was designed to solve. | | 1 | 58% | 57% | 1 |
| 41 | SR | LS | 5.PS.3.1 | Determine which activity a scientist should study to learn how animals get energy for life processes. | | 1 | 60% | 54% | 6 |
