SPB 10-1-2010
Achievement Scale – 2015
Content Area: Physical Science
Grade Level: 9
Unit: Electricity
Learning Goals:
Score 4: Student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications of the learning goal(s) and can reconstruct and apply
their knowledge from limited information:
The student:
 Can use Ohm’s Law (V = IR) to quantify the total current in series and parallel circuits.
 Can quantitatively state how voltage and current changes in 3 element (or less) series and parallel circuits.
 Can quantify the power consumed by resistors and light bulbs in circuits using the relationship P = VI.
Score 3: Student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the learning goal(s) that were explicitly taught:
The student:
 Is able to identify 3 element (or less) circuits as either series or parallel.
 Can qualitatively state how current and voltage change (or doesn’t) in series and parallel circuits.
 Can state that the resistance of a series circuit is equal to the sum of the individual resistances in that circuit.
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Score 2: The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes that support
the learning goal(s).
The student :
 Can define electric charge as is able to state what is moving in an electric circuit.
 Is able to define electric current as the movement of charge per second in a circuit whose unit of measure is the
Ampere (A).
 Is able to define electric voltage as the as the amount of Potential Energy a charge has in an electric circuit whose
unit is the Volt (V).
 Is able to define electrical resistance as the resistance to current flow of an element in an electric circuit whose
unit of measure is the Ohm ().
 Is able to qualitatively state how current and voltage change in a series circuit.
 Can identify when current will flow in a circuit (whether the circuit is open or closed).
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Score 1: With help (being given word banks, manipulated equations, retakes), the student demonstrates a partial
understanding of the simpler details and processes that support the learning goal(s).
Score 0: Even with help, no success
Academic Vocabulary:
 Circuit
 Electric Charge
 Open/Closed Circuit
 Current
 Series Circuit
 Voltage
 Parallel Circuit
 Resistance
 Power
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