The Office of Student Assessment, in collaboration with the Office of Elementary Education, has released NEW Writing Prompt documents using previously tested, retired writing prompts.
These documents will focus on student constructed responses for the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) Grade 3-8 and End-of-Course writing assessments. They will provide knowledge of the scoring process for local and/or regional professionals to help guide classroom instruction.
The purpose of these documents is to:
- provide a retired writing prompt and passage
- clarify scoring decisions as determined by the range-finding process
- suggest additional prompts to be used with each passage
Writing Prompt Release
Please note that due to test bank restrictions, all types of writing modes are not included in this release. Prompts from any writing standard could be selected for the spring assessments.
Please contact Melissa Beck at mbeck@mdek12.org with any questions.
MELISSA BECK K-3 Assessment Coordinator
Office of Student Assessment