New Mexico Public Education Department. Assessment Blueprint. Social Studies: New Mexico History End-of-Course (EoC) Exam

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1 New Mexico Public Education Department Assessment Blueprint Social Studies: New Mexico History End-of-Course (EoC) Exam Version 001 Updated 11/2013

2 Purpose Statement Social Studies: New Mexico History The New Mexico History EoC assessment is intended to measure student proficiency of the New Mexico Social Studies Standards. This course-level assessment is provided to all students who have completed New Mexico History (STARS code 2717) or related courses to measure student proficiency of the New Mexico state standards in social studies. In rare instances, it may also align with the curriculum for Grade 7 New Mexico History (STARS code 2700). Intended as a final exam for the course, this is a summative assessment covering a wide range of content, skills, and applications. Scores are reported to the teacher, school, district, and state levels for the purposes of student grades, curriculum review, student graduation requirements, and the optional use for the Educator Effectiveness System. New Mexico History EoC 2

3 Blueprint Table Social Studies: New Mexico History EoC Based on NM Social Studies Standards Grades 9 12 Standard/Content ID I-A I-A.1 I-A.2 I-A.3 I-A.4 I-A.5 III-A.6 II-D.3 II-E.1 II-E.4 Content Statement Analyze how people and events of New Mexico have influenced United States and world history since statehood. Compare and contrast the relationships over time of Native American tribes in New Mexico with other cultures. Analyze the geographic, economic, social and political factors of New Mexico that impact United States and world history. Analyze the role and impact of New Mexico and New Mexicans in World War II (e.g., Navajo code talkers, New Mexico national guard, internment camps, Manhattan project, Bataan death march). Analyze the impact of the arts, sciences and technology of New Mexico since World War II (e.g., artists, cultural artifacts, nuclear weapons, the arms race, technological advances, scientific developments, high-tech industries, federal laboratories). Explain how New Mexico history represents a framework of knowledge and skills within which to understand the compl0065ity of the human experience. Compare and contrast structures and powers of New Mexico s government as expressed in the New Mexico Constitution. Explain and analyze how water is a scare resource in New Mexico, both in quantity and quality. Analyze the factors influencing economic activities (e.g., mining, ranching, agriculture, tribal gaming, tourism, high tech) that have resulted in NewMexico s population growth. How cooperation and conflict are involved in shaping the distribution of political, social and economic factors in New Mexico, United States and throughout the world (e.g., land grants, border issues, United States territories, Israel and the middle east, the former Soviet Union, and Sub-Saharan Africa). New Mexico History EoC 3

4 Standard/Content ID III-A.6 III-B.4 IV-B.5 Content Statement Compare and contrast structures and powers of New Mexico s government as expressed in the New Mexico Constitution. Evaluate the role of New Mexico and United States symbols, icons, songs and traditions in providing continuity over time. Describe how changes in technology, transportation and communication affect the location and patterns of economic activities in New Mexico. New Mexico History EoC 4

5 NM History EoC Category Alignment Chart Standard Category #1 NM History EoC Category Alignment Chart DOK (Item # by DOK) DOK (Item # by DOK) Grand Total Standard Category #5 Grand Total I.A.5 #1, #3 #2, #4 4 1.A4 #29 1 Category #2 I.A.2b #5 #6, # A5 #28 1 #7, #9, #12 II.D.3 #8, #10 2 Category # I.A1 #13 1 I.A2A Category #4 #14, #15, #16, #18 6 # A3 #19 1 I.A3 #21, #23, #24 #20, #22, #25 #26, #27 8 I.A.4 #36, #37 2 #33, #34, II.E.1 #35 #32 #31 5 III.A.6 #38 1 III.B4 #30 1 Category # I.A.2b #41 1 I.A.2D #45 1 I.A.2E #40 #39 2 III.A.6 #43 1 III.A III-A.6 #42 1 Grand Total New Mexico History EoC 5

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