Performance expectationAnalyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints for solutions that account for societal needs and wants.
Every item written to HS-ETS1-1 has to assess all three dimensions together, not the content alone. This is the structural change that made older practice material stop matching the exam.
Asking Questions and Defining Problems
What a student at each level can do with HS-ETS1-1. These drive how a cluster spreads difficulty across its items.
Summarised by ScienceIQ from the NYSED Performance Level Descriptions for Physical Science: Chemistry. These are our wording, not the Department’s — the official descriptions are the authority.
Identify criteria or constraints for a solution to a major global challenge.
Describe qualitative or quantitative criteria or constraints for a given solution.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify criteria or constraints.
Analyze a major global challenge to specify qualitative and quantitative criteria and constraints.
Phenomenon stimulus, connected items across the required types, answer key, rubric and figures drawn deterministically from a structured spec — in the format your students will sit.