Minnesota NES Essential Academic Skills (EAS) case studies
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The Minnesota NES Essential Academic Skills (EAS) exam is a basic-skills assessment used in Minnesota's teacher-licensure pathway. It is aimed at candidates preparing to enter an educator preparation program or to satisfy a skills requirement for licensure, and it tests the reading, writing, mathematics, and technology-literacy foundations that classroom work demands rather than subject-matter teaching knowledge. The Minnesota NES Essential Academic Skills (EAS) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,517 words.
1Sorting Guided Reading Groups When Accuracy and Comprehension Disagree
Alvarez’s fourth-grade team is placing students into guided reading groups using this fall’s running records on a 100-word narrative passage (level P). Three students stand out.
712 words, about 4 min2Two Minutes of Feedback: Prioritizing Revision in a Persuasive Draft
Okafor teaches ninth-grade English and must return the district’s October persuasive writing sample to 148 students within two weeks. The rubric is weighted: claim 30%, evidence and reasoning 30%, organization 25%, conventions 15%, with each trait scored 1–4.
689 words, about 3 min3When 11 Cups Looks Reasonable: Additive Reasoning on a Ratio Quiz
Lindqvist’s sixth graders took a five-item ratio quiz. In brief interviews, every student who answered 11 said some version of “3 plus 9 is 12, so 2 plus 9 is 11.” The three who answered 18 multiplied 12 by 3/2.
690 words, about 3 min4A Perfect Checklist Score: Lateral Reading and a Free Annotation Tool
Tran’s seventh graders are researching adolescent sleep for a science argument essay. Aisha submits “The National Center for Sleep Wellness Research,” a polished .org site with a medical advisory board page listing five people with MD and PhD credentials, a 2021 infographic declaring that “73% of adolescents are chronically sleep-deprived,” and a reference list of eight journal articles.
734 words, about 4 min5Reporting Homework Hours Without Misleading the Board
Boone’s seventh graders surveyed 25 classmates about nightly homework and must present the results to the school board in a three-minute slot. The class has one 45-minute period left to finalize its slide.
692 words, about 3 min