SST-HS.3.05

High School SST Targeted Benchmarks
Standard 3: Economic Concepts
Students understand economic concepts and the characteristics of various economic systems.
Impact

SST-HS.3.05 Interpret the concepts of exchange and trade and the impacts and implications of a global economy for individuals and nations.

 Student Learning Targets:

Reasoning Targets

  • I can analyze the global impact of multinational corporations.
  • I can compare and contrast Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism.

Proficiency Scale

Score   Description Sample Activity
Advanced Proficient In addition to expectations of proficiency, the student provides consistent evidence of in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught and expected. -
  3.5 In addition to score 3.0 performance, in-depth inferences, and applications with partial success.

Proficient

 

“The Standard.” The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding any of the information and processes that were end of instruction expectations.

Unit 4 Business Organizations

The student can:

  • describe the global impact of a multinational corporation on individuals and nations

Unit 9 Comparative Economic Systems

  • Explain the similarities and differences in trade practices between the 3 Economic systems; Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism.

The student exhibits no major errors or omissions.

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  2.5 The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and partial knowledge of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).
Progressing

The student demonstrates no major errors or omissions regarding the simpler details and processes but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).

Unit 4 Business Organizations

The student can:

  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology, such as:

    • corporations, conglomerates, multinationals, labor union

  • performs basic processes, such as:

    • identifying other types of business activities (conglomerates, multinationals, labor union)

    • define a multinational corporation.

Unit 9 Comparative Economic Systems

The student can:

  • recognizes or recalls specific terminology, such as:

    • Capitalism, Socialism, Communism

However, the student exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and processes.

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  1.5 The student demonstrates partial knowledge of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but exhibits major errors or omissions regarding the more complex ideas and procedures (Score 3.0 content).
Novice With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) and some of the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content). -
  0.5 With help, the student demonstrates a partial understanding of some of the simpler details and processes (Score 2.0 content) but not the more complex ideas and processes (Score 3.0 content).

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