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EducAide Original

NC Math Standards (SCOS)

Grade Levels Elementary (K-5) Middle (6-8) High (9-12)    
Subjects Mathematics Science Social Studies ELA Other
Question Types Multiple-Choice Interactive Short Answer Free Response Passage-based
Features Paired Questions Ordered by Difficulty Spanish Translation    
Number of questions: 12,079
Originally published by: EducAide Software, the maker of Problem-Attic
Database organization: Grades, NSCOS Standards
Requires subscription: Yes

Design Highlights

  • All questions are hand-written by highly qualified teachers and curriculum specialists. (They are not algorithm-generated or “crowd-sourced”.) In addition, they are carefully aligned, edited and reviewed by EducAide Software, the maker of Problem-Attic, which has 20 years of experience developing questions for state standards.
  • The database is intended for both instruction and assessment. Alignment to the standards is as tight as possible while still allowing some flexibility for teaching, not just testing. While questions function very well for measuring student progress, in accordance with the standards, some questions are included for challenge, extra credit, and extending ideas.
  • Questions are aligned to only one standard. There is no duplication. For questions that can conceivably go with multiple standards, we went for the best fit. We also tried to keep similar questions together, so that it's not necessary to jump through multiple standards to find variations.
  • All questions are paired for easy pre- and post-testing, makeup tests, etc. You will not notice this on the sample documents, but if you visit the Play Area, it will be apparent that two questions in-a-row are always similar. This provides a nice balance between repetition and variety and also helps with test security, as the two questions, which are close in difficulty and style, can be assigned to different students and graded the same way.
  • Problem-Attic has an option called “parallel forms” that takes advantage of the paired questions. You can very quickly create pre- and post-tests, makeup tests, forms A and B, etc. More details are here.
  • The questions are rich with graphics and interesting scenarios, including real-world data. With the editor, you can use all of this as stimulus for new questions. The process is facilitated with a button in the editor labeled “Duplicate”. Also, Problem-Attic is smart enough not to repeat certain figures or text which is marked as an “intro”, if it appears in successive questions.

Notes

All the questions in this bank are original and included in a school subscription. The questions are aligned to the 2017 North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS).

The North Carolina Office of Academic Standards describes the NCSCOS as, “the appropriate content standards for each grade or proficiency level and each high school course to provide a uniform set of learning standards for every public school in North Carolina. These standards define what students are expected to know and be able to do by the end of each school year or course.” For more information about these standards, please visit this page.