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Maine Educational Assessment (MEA)
The 2009 Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) will be held during the testing window of March 2-20, 2009 and will measure reading and mathematics at grades 3-8, and science at grades 5 and 8.
Reading, mathematics and science items will measure the new 2007 Maine Learning Results contained in the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) Regulation 131: The Maine Federal, State, and Local Accountability Standards. These standards and performance indicators are also contained and highlighted in MDOE Regulation 132 – Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction.
MDOE Regulation 131: The Maine Federal, State, and Local Accountability Standards can be found at: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/05/071/071c131.doc.
MDOE Regulation 132 – Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction can be found at: http://www.maine.gov/education/standards.htm.
NOTE: Grade Level Expectations, created to measure the 1997 Maine Learning Results at individual grade levels, and Grade Span Expectations in Science and Technology are no longer in effect.
Please click this link for more specific information and materials regarding the March 2009 MEA administration.
If you have any comments or suggestions regarding the MEA assessment program, please contact:
Susan Smith, MEA Coordinator, 207-624-6775, email: susan.smith@maine.gov,
at the Maine Department of Education, State House Station #23, Augusta, Maine 04333-0023.
