| According
to the Maryland State Department of Education, all
students are required to take and pass the Maryland
High School Assessments as a graduation requirement. Students
will take the Maryland High School Assessment for Algebra and Data
Analysis when they take Algebra I. This could occur in grade 7,
8 or 9 depending on when the student takes the Algebra I course.
Students will also be required to take other Maryland High School
Assessments (Biology, Government, English, and Geometry) in high
school.
There are
prototypes
of Maryland High School Assessments available to view online.
These prototypes are actual problems that appeared on previous
HSA's. Previewing these prototypes will give you an idea of the
type of problems a student can expect when taking the HSA.
The Algebra
and Data Analysis Assessment has 4 types of questions: Selected
Response (multiple choice), Student Produced Response (grids),
Brief Constructed Responses (BCR), and Extended Constructed Responses
(ECR). The
Office of Mathematics at Baltimore County Public Schools is
helping to prepare you for this assessment by designing Benchmark
Assessments that follow the same format. You will be very familiar
with each type of problem by the time the HSA arrives.
Links
to prototype questions are provided for each
Baltimore County Algebra I Unit listed on this website.
It is recommended that you use these links to review for each
unit test
and to prepare yourself for the HSA.
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