Scale Scores

Below are the scale score ranges for all levels on the grades 3-8 Measurements of Student Progress (MSP), High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE), and End-of-Course (EOC) exams. These are the same scale score ranges as the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), which was replaced as of 2009-10 school year. The scale score ranges include the lowest and highest attainable score on each test (reading, writing, math and science).

Notes:

1. The lowest scale score is assigned to a booklet that earns zero points, when the minimum response criteria have been met.
   
   
2. The highest scale score is assigned to a booklet that earns a perfect score.
   
   
3. The cut scores between Levels 1 and 2, 2 and 3, and 3 and 4 were set by the A+ Commission for Reading and Writing at grades 4, 7 and 10; and by the State Board of Education for Reading in grades 3, 5, 6 and 8, Mathematics in grades 3-8 and EOC, and for Science in grades 5, 8 and EOC. The Mathematics scale scores above for EOC began with the spring 2011 End-of-Course exams. The Science scale scores above for grades 5 and 8 began with the spring 2011 Measurements of Student Progress. The Biology scale scores above for EOC began with the spring 2012 End-of-Course exams.