Standard #: LA.910.2.2.1 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: MC item(s)
N/A


Clarification :
The student will identify, explain, analyze, and determine meaning from a variety of text features.

Content Limits :
Text features should be assessed within grade-level appropriate literary nonfiction texts (e.g., biographies, autobiographies, diary entries, memoirs) or literary fictional texts when appropriate.

Texts should include a single, identifiable text feature or should contain a variety of text features.

Transitional devices, tables of contents, glossaries, bold text, and indices should not be assessed.

Content Focus :
Text features (e.g., titles, subtitles, headings, subheadings, sections, charts, tables, graphs, illustrations, maps, diagrams, captions, italicized text, text boxes)

Text Attributes :
Literary nonfiction texts are more suited than literary fictional texts toward item development for this benchmark; however, a literary text may occasionally be appropriate. 

Stimuli found in texts may include titles, headings, subheadings, sections, charts, tables, graphs, illustrations, maps, diagrams, captions, italicized text, and text boxes.

Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to 

• incorrect analysis and interpretation of text features; 
• facts, details, or other information drawn from the text features but unrelated to the test item; 
• incorrect or irrelevant information drawn from text features; and 
• plausible but incorrect distractors based on text features. 

Note: Items should not ask the student for literal references, such as 

• On what page would you find...?; 
  
• In which chapter would you find...?; or 
  
• In what kind of reference book would you find information about...? 

Note: When assessing a text feature (e.g., subheadings, captions), answer choices may be developed from other areas of the text but should be parallel and balanced.  

Note: When assessing a text feature in a fiction or literary nonfiction passage, Benchmark LA.910.2.2.1 should be used. When assessing a text feature in an informational/expository nonfiction article or in a functional selection (how-to documents, webpages, etc.), Benchmark LA.910.6.1.1 should be used.

Sample Test Items (3)