HSA: High School Assessment Program

Online Courses for Teachers to help students prepare for HSA

Online Courses

Resources to Help Students Prepare for HSA

Teachers may want to direct students and/or their parents to the following resources available to help students prepare for HSA.

Web Resources about HSA
Preparing for HSA
Maryland High School Assessments

Motivational Resources
Cost of Living Game
Be What I Want to Be

Parents

• Find out how you can support your child on HSA

Practice Taking the HSA

Teachers can use the mini-assessments on the public release forms to help diagnose student strengths and needs. The mini-assessments are organized by the content standards identified in the table below. Items on the mini-assessments were on previous forms of the actual assessment and have been released to the public to illustrate how content might be assessed.

The mini-assessments include a combination of selected response, student produced-response and constructed response items. Correct answers are provided for the selected response and student produced response items. Scored student responses are available for the constructed responses.

After students complete the online mini-assessments, they will receive the results of their performance online by standard, expectation, and indicator assessed. Teachers must keep in mind and communicate to students that the items of these sample assessments represent varying difficulty levels, and each item represents only one way to assess an indicator. Therefore, scoring correctly on a particular item does not necessarily indicate proficiency on the indicator assessed.

Government
Government Structure, Functions, and Principles	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Protecting Rights and Maintaining Order	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Systems of Government and U.S. Foreign Policy	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Impact of Geography on Governmental Policy	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Economic Principles, Institutions and Processes	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Biology
Skills and Processes	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Biological Molecules	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Cells and Organisms	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Inheritance of Traits	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Evolutionary Change	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Interdependence of Organisms	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
English
Writing: Composing & Language Usage & Conventions A	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05
Writing: Composing & Language Usage & Conventions B	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05
Reading & Literature A	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05
Reading & Literature B	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05
Algebra/Data Analysis
Analyzing Patterns and Functions	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Modeling Real-World Situations	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Collecting, Organizing and Analyzing Data	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04
Using Data to Make Predictions	2009 • 08 • 07 • 06 • 05 • 04

Assessment taking tools are also available through Pearson Educational Measurement Solutions.