Scoring Short Responses

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Describe the "road kill" situation in the article. Support your answer with details and information from the article.

Score of 2- This response shows a complete understanding of the task. It is accurate and includes sufficient support from the article.

The amount of animal road kill is pretty high. The number of deaths in a 5 1/2- year study was almost 33 thousand, and that included only frogs and snakes on U.S. 441 and I-75. The main cause of all this is rain. When the rain starts to cause flooding, the water builds up beside the highway. Then the animals are forced to go there also and the road kill situation gets bad.

Score of 1- This response shows a partial understanding of the task. It needs more details from the article.

The article explains that not only alligators die on U.S. 441. There are also snakes, frogs, deer, and many other animals that lose their life on the highway.

Score of 0- This is a confused response. It is not clear whether the student understood the question.

This response shows a partial understanding of the task. It needs more details from the article.

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