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Floating Pencil
Examples of Student Work
Contributed by: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Here are samples of student responses along with their score points.


Student Sample Response

  1. Now take the pencil out of the water and dry it with a paper towel. Use the ruler printed below to measure the length of the pencil that was above the water. Draw a line on the ruler to show how much of the pencil was above the water.


Level:
Unsatisfactory (1)


  1. Now take the pencil out of the salt water and dry it with a paper towel. Use the ruler printed below to measure the length of the pencil that was above the salt water. Draw a line on the ruler to show how much of the pencil was above the water.


No Score.


  1. Now use the floating-pencil test to find out if the water in the bottle labeled Mystery Water is fresh water or salt water. Do your test just like you did for the fresh water and the salt water. For this test, you can draw lines on the pictures of the pencil and the ruler below.


No Score.


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