Performance Levels
In an effort to help everyone become more comfortable and knowledgeable about the Ohio Achievement Performance Levels, we are going to be looking at them throughout our year together in world history. Regardless of the subject area/test, the levels remain the same, so it is important to become knowledgeable about what it takes to reach each level.
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Advanced
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A |
Students analyze effects of cultural, economic and geographic patterns, government systems, and citizens' rights and responsibilities in world history. Students recognize authors’ different styles and may see how the style can be used to convey ideas. Students organize their writing with a very clear purpose. They use correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and word choices with great consistency. |
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Accelerated |
B |
Students explain and analyze cultural, economic and geographic patterns, government systems, and citizens' rights and responsibilities in world history. Students understand what they read and notice some differences in style across authors or texts. Students organize their writing with a clear purpose. They use grammar, punctuation and spelling correctly and make correct word choices. |
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Proficient
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C
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Students describe cultural, economic and geographic patterns, governmental systems, and citizens' rights and responsibilities in world history. Students understand what they read. They compare and contrast different sources of information to draw conclusions about a topic. Students write with a general sense of purpose and can organize ideas and use some sentence variety and effective word choice. They show awareness of grammar, punctuation and spelling rules. |
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Basic |
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Students recall some cultural, economic and geographic patterns, governmental systems, and citizens' rights and responsibilities in world history. Students learn new words by reading and by looking them up. Students may not write with clear goals and organized ideas. Their word choices lack consistency. Their grammar, punctuation and spelling have errors. |
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Limited |
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Students recognize a few cultural, economic and geographic patterns, governmental systems, and citizens' rights and responsibilities in world history. Students may struggle with simple reading tasks. Students write without clear goals and organized ideas. They make poor word choices and many grammar, punctuation and capitalization errors.
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