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Maine Educational Assessment (MEA)
March 2009 Administration Information for the MEA Grades 3-8
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the 1997 Maine Learning Results at individual grade levels, and Grade Span Expectations in Science and Technology are no longer in effect.
Note: ALL of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf) format. You must have Adobe Reader installed on your machine to access them correctly. You can download it at http://www.adobe.com/. It is free, downloadable software.
Any questions regarding student enrollments in MEDMS/Infinite Campus should be directed to the MEDMS helpdesk at medms.helpdesk@maine.gov or 624-6896.
MEA-Related Informational Letters
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