An effective comprehensive system for assessing students' performance and progress towards the academic content standards is comprised of both state and local or classroom-level assessments.

Overview of Ohio's Comprehensive Standards-Based Assessment system

• What does Ohio's comprehensive standards-based assessment system look like?

Click on the "Statewide Assessment System" button to read more about Ohio's statewide assessment system or click on the "Classroom Assessment System" button to learn how to more effectively develop and use classroom assessments.

If you are trying to find assessment items for a particular set of standards, benchmarks, and indicators, click on the "Select Content and Aligned Assessment Items" button.

This link allows you to access annotations for the Spring 05 OGT Writing prompts. It also includes student samples.
Writing Rubrics and Scoring Guides Spring 05

This link allows you to access annotations for the Spring 05 Grade Four Achievement Writing prompts. It also includes student samples.
Grade 4 Achievement Test - Answer Key

If you would like to access annotations for the Spring 05 Grade Four Achievement Writing multiple choice questions or for the Spring 05 OGT Writing multiple choice questions and for the one short answer question, please use the IMS search located in the upper right portion of this page.