1. What can you learn from examining sample assessment items?                                                                                          By examining sample assessment items, you can learn the depth of knowledge required in assessing the standard. To assess the knowledge and skills required for the students to master.

2. How can sample assessment items help you create your own questions?                                                                    By understanding the depth of knowledge required: Sample assessment items can also help you understand the depth of knowledge required by the standard. This refers to how deeply students need to understand the content in order to answer the questions correctly. 

3. How can you imagine using sample assessment items in your own teaching?  

Sample assessment items can also help you identify the additional knowledge and skills that students will need to be successful on the assessment. I can also imagine using sample assessment to develop more comprehensive learning targets and success criteria.

1.  By examining sample assessment items, I can ask what the students need to know to answer the item, understand what is being measured, and formulate how I would apply the text.  It allows me to align the standards with questions and activities given to the students.

2. Sample assessment items can be aligned with the lesson.  We can focus on what is actually being assessed.  

3.  I can imagine using sample assessment items in my teaching by clearly presenting the standard to the students, working through actual examles of what is being assessed, and allowing the students to develop their own questions  relative to the assessed standard.  

Sample assessment items can help teachers formulate questions and activites for their class. They provide a foundation and can be used as a base or starting point, which can be specified to their students.

1. I can learn from examining sample assessment items that it can give you an ideal of how to create, structure, and form questions that can provoke abstract thinking.
2. Sample assessment items can help create my own questions by aligning the questions to a specific standard or objective.
3. I can imagine using sample assessment items in my own teaching to navigate whether or not the student is approaching or mastering a certain standard of the skill. 

1. What can you learn from examining sample assessment items?  Examining sample assessment items is important because it gives you a tool to see what the student is expected to know prior to the assessment.  
2. How can sample assessment items help you create your own questions?  Sample assessment items can help you to create your own questions by being able to use it as a guide to create questions for that particular standard.
3. How can you imagine using sample assessment items in your own teaching?  I can imagine using sample assessment items to assist me in teaching what a student is expected to know.   Sample assessment items are also beneficial for me to  help teach the students not only how to understand the question that is being asked but also to teach them how to answer a question from their knowledge.  It is also beneficial for me to find out what they already know, and what they do not know so I can cover areas where knowledge is lacking.