State of New Jersey Department of Education

NJ ASK 3 & 4 Parent Information

PowerPoint overview of the NJ 3 & 4 ASK test

Current testing schedule

NJDOE elementary school information

No Child Left Behind
US ED

NJDOE

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards:
Matrices from NJPEP; and from NJDOE's Academic Standards

Sample mathematics and language arts literacy and science questions: note - science is grade 4 only

ESPA and NJASK examples

Language arts literacy
Overview and Test Specifications

Language arts literacy activities (K-5; click on each standard to obtain activity list)

Mathematics activities
Grades Pre K-2
Grades 3-5

Science
activities by grade and strand (K-4)

Support for 3rd and 4th grade assessments from around the U.S. - with sample questions from N.J. and from the U.S.

Language arts literacy scoring rubrics

Open Ended Scoring Rubric for reading Holistic Scoring Rubric for writing: 5 pt. for grades K-5;

Mathematics
Some difficulties
for students on
standards-based assessments

Mathematics
Number of questions
for each strand on
NJASK 3 & 4

What do all those abbreviations mean?

Additional NJPEP resources: Helpful Hints; and Homework & Test Help. See also Frequently Asked Questions about the assessments.