Spring 2025 MCAS Test Administration Resources for Grades 3–8 and High School

Go to the MCAS Resource Center for the following:

• resources to prepare students, including a student tutorial, practice tests, and equation editor guides and reference sheets for Mathematics and STE
• training modules for staff and recordings of previously offered training sessions
• CBT technology guides and user guides

Test Administration Manuals — coming in winter 2025

Test Administration Sample Forms and Materials — coming in winter 2025

Additional Policies/Resources

• Crosswalk of Terminology for MCAS Tests Beginning in 2025

• Spring 2025 MCAS Test Administration FAQs — coming in winter 2025

• Schools' Sample Materials for Coordinating MCAS Test Administration

• Complete List of Test Materials (For Use When Inventorying Shipments for PBT) — coming in winter 2025

• Slide Template for Training Test Administrators — coming in winter 2025

• MCAS Student Questionnaire (Views of Climate and Learning [VOCAL] Student Survey Project)

• Procedures for Students with Diabetes Who Use a Cell Phone to Control a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) or an Insulin Pump

Technology-Related Resources for Computer-Based Testing (CBT)

CBT Resources

• Computer-based Testing Device Planner

Cybersecurity Resources

• Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats, from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the federal Department of Homeland Security

• MA Office of Municipal and School Technology
  • Cybersecurity Roadmap
  
  

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework

Grade 8 Civics Test

• State-level Performance Task Topic for Spring 2025: Topic 4: Rights and responsibilities of citizens.

• Grade 8 Civics Topic Assignment and Resources for Schools (October 30 Student Assessment Update)

• Sample Letter to Grade 8 Parents/Guardians about the New Spring 2025 MCAS Civics Test

• Frequently Asked Questions about the Grade 8 Civics MCAS Assessment

High School Participation Guidelines

• MCAS Participation Guidelines for Adams and Koplik Scholarship Award Eligibility

Last Updated: November 13, 2024