MCAS
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assesment System: MCAS
The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a set of statewide standardized tests. Students in grades 3-8 and 10 take MCAS tests in English language arts and mathematics; students in grades 5, 8, and one high school grade (usually grade 9 or 10) take a science MCAS test. Students in grade 8 take a civics MCAS test. State law requires that high school students meet the Competency Determination (CD) standard in order to graduate, which is usually done by earning a passing score on MCAS tests.
Resources for MCAS information and practice:
| The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s MCAS website | All official MCAS materials from the DESE |
| myMCAS.com | MCAS practice tests using released/older MCAS questions; corrects your answers and provides links (some broken) for each question. |
| TestNav Tutorial and Practice | TestNav is the testing client that students use to take the real MCAS. This site allows you to learn how to use TestNav and practice using it. |
| MCAS Student Tutorial & Practice Tests | Official practice tests and tutorial from Pearson. |
| Jeopardy Labs MCAS Games | MCAS questions in a Jeopardy style game |
| Factile | Online quiz board game |
| OpenEd Resources | Choose your Grade, Resource Type (video, game, interactive, assessment, lesson plan, homework, audio, or other), and the Common Core Standard you want to learn about. (Only math and ELA though – no science) |
| JogNog | Offers a free trial for 30 days and has free study games for math, science, and ELA. When you click on the ‘quizzes’ tab, it offers a range of grades (2-college), subjects, quizzes, and it will match up to the state standards. Teachers can also create their own quizzes! |