The Assessment Anchors are one of the many tools the Pennsylvania Department of Education has developed to better align curriculum, instruction and assessment practices throughout the state.  PDE first released the Assessment Anchors for Mathematics and Reading in the spring of 2004.  The Assessment Anchors, like the Standards, are dynamic documents and will be adjusted periodically. 

• Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content
• Adopt an Anchor Toolkit

The following PDE document will provide you will the cut scores for each PSSA exam and the "blueprint" of each assessment:

• PSSA Homepage as found on PDE's website
• 2009-2010 Blueprint

Please use data found in Performance Tracker and the 4Sight Success for All Center as the basis of discussion and collaboration. You will also need to refer to the 4Sight Administration manuals and the blueprint found in the section above.

• 4Sight Data Analysis Questions- Proficiency Report- use the 2008-2009 PSSA resultss and this year's 4Sight exams.*
• Guiding Questions- base this on 4Sight data.*
• Grade Level or Department Data Analysis*
• Analyzing Low Performance*
• Analyzing Low Performance Chart*
• Class Level Data Analysis
• Areas of Growth

• Reading Trends
• Math Trends