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Welcome to the NEW Home for the Performance Assessments of Social Studies Thinking (PASST) Assessments!
The PASST Project was born during the 2012-13 school year when teachers from around the state, working through the Intermediate School District level, worked collaboratively to build rigorous assessments that didn’t rely just on rote memorization and knowledge acquisition, but also moved into higher levels of cognitive rigor to really get to the heart of both content and skills acquisition.
Teams worked dilligently all the way through the revision to the content standards in 2019. The end product? Over 800 items spread across the 3rd-HS level, organized into smaller “Testlets” which teachers can use in their classroom free of charge.
About the PASST Assessments:
The PASST Proejct utilizes multiple item types to determine how deeply students understand the content and skills they’re learning about in class. While you’ll see traditional multiple choice items as part of the assessment, you’ll also come across constructed response, and technology enhanced items (for online adminsitrations). While a technology enhanced item type is only available in certain formats (though you’re free to import the assessments into your own LMS!) the paper/pencil versions of the test tweak each of these questions slightly to become hybrid matching and extended response items.
All of these item types together assess students at levels of DOK ranging from 1-3. All levels are important for ensuring students can reach mastery.
The maps above show the United States both before and after the Louisiana Purchase. Which answer choice most closely summarizes the impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
Using the table you just created above, compare and contrast the North and the South by filling in the Venn diagram below.
Cloth a major export
Major railroad usage
Cotton a major export
Fewer citizens
Reliant on natural resources
Diverse class systems existed
How To Access the PASST Assessments Now
We would love to put these assessments front and center on the website - unfortunately, students are savvy consumers of search engines and we want to ensure the hard work we put into these tests don’t make it into student hands before you’re ready to administer them.
Simply send an e-mail to david.johnson[at]wmisd.org and indicate which grade level you’d like the test booklets for and we’ll have them to you in a jiffy! (Use PASST ASSESSMENT REQUEST) in the subject line to help speed things up!