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Link to Released Items

Last Updated on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 5:03 AM

Items from prior administrations of the Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT) are available in each content area and grade assessed.  These items reflect current assessment items and can be used to provide students practice with the format and type of items found in the KCCT.  The items are released to provide teachers and students examples of what to expect when taking the live KCCT each spring.

 

 

Released Items for 1997-1999

 

Alternate Portfolio Examples from 2007

 

 

Beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, the KCCT was replaced with the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP). The K-PREP assessment is a blended model of a Criterion-Referenced Test (CRT) and a Norm-Referenced Test (NRT) containing multiple-choice and constructed-response items.

Sample items for the K-PREP are available on the page below.

 

 

Sample Assessment Items for K-PREP
Kentucky begins a new public school assessment program beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. These assessments are collectively named the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) tests.   The new assessment for grades 3-8 is a blended model built with norm-referenced test (NRT) and criterion-referenced test (CRT) items which consist ... More


 

2009 KCCT Released Items
These Released Items from the KCCT pool of items were not used in the assessment. The annotated released booklets are dated Spring 2009 to reflect the date of the creation of their release. Not all content areas or grade levels are represented from this release, but the 2007 Released Items are still viable for ... More


 

2007 Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT) Released Items
Released items are representative of assessment items from the Spring 2007 Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT). Each content area and grade level released has a set of multiple choice questions and open response questions. The first phase of the item release included the assessment items, answer key and scoring guide, while ... More


 

On-Demand Writing Released Prompts
Sample released writing prompts with student responses and multiple choice items. Released items are from Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) for grades 5, 8 and 12.  


For more information contact:

Assessment Information
500 Mero Street, 18th Floor CPT
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 564-4394
Fax: (502) 564-7749
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