Build one open-ended prompt from a randomly selected standard
The advice. “Develop an assessment where Pearson/OEE randomly select a standard and use this as a prompt for open-ended questions.”
Why. The most developed of the four alternatives, and the one that preserves a constructed-response format at a fraction of the cost. Rather than building nine bespoke CRI tests, one mechanism generates prompts from the standards themselves.
The committee worked through the detail in the room:
- Social studies standards “aren’t all written as questions,” so the task would evaluate the skill of developing an argument rather than recall.
- That skill “could apply to any of the four fields” — one instrument serves civics, economics, geography, and history.
- Scoring is the obstacle: “There would be an issue with finding someone able to score these, but a rubric could be developed.”
- Pearson / Evaluation Systems “already has rubrics developed for other CRI items.”
- Asked how the cut would be established: from the rubric.
A variant not pursued. “Could they be performance items vs. CRI (example: develop a lesson plan)?” — raised and not taken up.
Status. Open.