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1.  Your Name or Title    (required)
2.  Your Email Address   
3.  School Name   (required)
4.  City or Post Office   (required)
5.  These comments concern        (required)
6.  Overall, how useful is the Department rating guide in training teachers to accurately score the Social Studies examination selected above? (required)
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7.  How useful are the specific content rubrics for the constructed response questions (Grades 5 and 8 Social Studies Tests only) or thematic essays (Regents examinations in Global History and Geography & U.S. History and Government only) in helping you to understand what is expected in a student response at each score point? (required)
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8.  How useful are the specific content rubrics for scoring the DBQ scaffold (short answer) section of the test? (required)
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9.  How useful are the specific content rubrics for the DBQ essays in helping you to understand what is expected of a student response at each score point? (required)
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10.  How useful are the scoring commentaries for the anchor papers in helping you to understand what is expected in a student response at each score point? (required)
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11.  How useful is the set of practice papers in the scoring process? (required)
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12.  How useful are the key ideas chart and outside information chart (in the DBQ portion of the guide) in helping you score student papers accurately? (required)
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13.  How useful are the scoring notes in helping you understand how to score student papers accurately? (required)
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14.  On average, approximately how much time is spent in scorer training on each part of the test before you begin to score actual student papers?
Constructed Response Questions (Grades 5 and 8 only)  
Thematic Essay (Global and USHG only)  
DBQ Scaffolding  
DBQ Essay  
15.  On average, how many teachers are involved in the scorer training and scoring of this test in your school?
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16.  Which part of the rating guide is most useful to you during the scoring process?
17.  Which part of the rating guide is least useful to you during the scoring process?
18.  What would you like to see changed in the format of the existing rating guide?
19.  How could the rating guide be improved?  Please be specific.
20.  Please provide any additional comments about the overall usefulness of the social studies rating guide?

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