Attachment E Math Assessment.xlsx

This is an assessment item specification document for South Carolina's Formative Assessment for ELA & Math K-8 contract opportunity. The document provides a detailed spreadsheet template for mathematics assessment items across grades kindergarten through 8, aligned with South Carolina College and Career Ready (SC CCR) indicators. Vendors are required to complete separate spreadsheets for mathematics and English Language Arts, with one sheet per grade level. The specification requires vendors to provide five items per indicator, except where otherwise specified, with items organized by grade-level-specific indicators such as Data and Probability with Statistics and Reasoning (DPSR), Measurement, Geometry, and Statistics with Reasoning (MGSR), Number and Reasoning (NR), and Patterns, Algebraic Thinking, and Functions with Reasoning (PAFR). Each completed submission must include a PDF document presenting all items in the exact order listed in the corresponding spreadsheet, with one item per page. Each item must be clearly identified with an item ID, grade level, proposed indicator alignment, and any corresponding passages for ELA items.

The mathematics assessment structure spans eight grade levels (K-8) with varying numbers of indicators per grade. Kindergarten requires items across six indicator categories, while higher grades contain increasingly complex indicator structures; for example, Grade 6 and Grade 8 include multiple sub-indicators within each category. Vendors are permitted to leave cells blank if they cannot provide the full allocation of items for a specific indicator or sub-indicator, but rows must not be deleted from the template. The file serves as a formatting and content guide for vendors submitting assessment items for state review and alignment decision, as indicated by the "SCDE Alignment Decision (Y/N)" column present in each grade-level sheet.