SAT Question Analysis

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SAT Question Analysis by Mind Map: SAT Question Analysis

1. 1. Look at the question stem:

1.1. Would students not understand the question due to unfamiliar vocab, phrasing, or syntax?

1.2. Would students not be familiar with the topic or content of the question?

2. 2. Look at the distractors (wrong answer choices)

2.1. Are distractors similar to each other, asking students to finely discriminate between them and the right answer?

2.2. Do distractors require student understanding of specific skills/content to understand that they are wrong?

2.3. Have students practiced answering these types of SAT questions in class regularly throughout the year?

2.4. Have students practiced the cognitive skills needed to answer the question throughout the year (i.e., two-step math problems, inferring from a text, tracing an argument, using information in a graph to calculate something new rather than just finding information on the graph, etc.)

3. 3. Decide what changes in instruction/assessment need to happen during the school year.

3.1. Ideas: Include SAT-type math questions as openers and on classroom assessments; give one sample passage per week and review the questions and answers with students, change some classroom formative & summative assessment questions to have students practice the content and cognitive skills required by the SAT, change a lesson to require students to practice the cognitive skills required by the SAT...

3.2. The key to these changes is that they are INTENTIONAL and ONGOING based on the data you have!