NYSTCE Russian case studies
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The NYSTCE Russian test is listed by the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations program as Content Specialty Test code 128. It appears in the Content Specialty Tests table alongside other world-language CSTs such as Cantonese (120), French (121), German (122), Greek (123), Hebrew (124), Italian (125), Japanese (126), Latin (119), Mandarin (127), and Spanish (129), and it is separate from the Bilingual Education Assessment-Russian (173). Candidates should confirm their own certification requirements through the official program before registering, because the public test listing says testing requirements depend on certification type. The listing itself does not publish the Russian test's domain breakdown, item count, time limit, fee, passing score, or retake rules; those details belong on the individual test page reached by selecting Russian from the test table. The NYSTCE Russian case studies are 5 cases and about 2,909 words.
1Scoring Aspect in an Interrupted-Narrative Task
Petrova teaches a mixed third-year Russian class at a public high school. The unit assessment asks students to narrate an interrupted evening in five sentences.
619 words, about 3 min2Register in a Heritage Speaker's Email to a Professor
At a community college, Alyona, a heritage speaker from a Russian-speaking household, emails her literature professor, Dr. Sokolov: «Привет, Иван Петрович!
578 words, about 3 min3Translating School-System Acronyms for Russian-Speaking Families
A suburban New York school district with a growing Russian-speaking population must send a one-page letter about parent-teacher conferences. The English draft says: 'Join us for our PTO meeting at 6 p.m.
591 words, about 3 min4Repairing an Ambiguous Motion-Verb Multiple-Choice Item
A Russian I teacher writes this multiple-choice item for a unit test: «Вчера Анна на работу пешком.» Options: A. The answer key says B.
524 words, about 3 min5Placement of a Heritage Speaker with Strong Oral Skills and Weak Literacy
At a suburban high school, Maksim, a new sophomore, was born in the United States to Russian-speaking parents. He speaks Russian at home, has never studied it formally, reads Cyrillic print slowly, and cannot read cursive.
597 words, about 3 min