Standard #: LAFS.8.RI.3.8 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , MC , SHT , DDHT item(s)
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Assessment Limits :
Items should not ask the student to simply identify the argument or claims in the text. Items may ask the student to trace or evaluate the argument or claims in a section of the text or throughout the whole text. Items may focus on evaluating how effective, persuasive, or biased an argument or claim is. Items may focus on evaluating how relevant, sufficient, or accurate the evidence is, or how credible the sources are, for an argument or claim. Items may focus on irrelevant or inappropriate evidence, or distinguishing fact from opinion. Items may require the student to recognize stereotyping, generalization, emotional appeal, false dilemma, or false analogy.
Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate informational texts. Texts may vary in complexity.
Response Mechanisms :
The Technology-Enhanced Item Descriptions section on pages 3 and 4 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice and Editing Task item types). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

Task Demand
Delineate an argument or specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning, relevance, and sufficiency of the evidence.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to identify a speaker’s argument and then select specific claims that support the argument. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to identify a speaker’s argument and then select specific claims that support the argument. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to identify a speaker’s argument.
• Requires the student to select a claim that supports the speaker’s argument.
• Requires the student to evaluate the soundness of the reasoning, relevance, or sufficiency of the evidence.
Task Demand
Delineate an argument or specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning, relevance, and sufficiency of the evidence.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple explicit or implicit details that support the evaluation of an argument or claim in the text.
• Requires the student to select multiple evaluations of an argument or claim in the text. 
Drag-and-Drop Hot Text
• Requires the student to evaluate the arguments and claims of the text by dragging descriptions, analyses, details, or elements of structure into a graphic organizer. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table to evaluate the arguments and claims of the text by matching specific claims to evidence.
Task Demand
Recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Sample Response Mechanisms

Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select where irrelevant evidence is introduced. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to identify a piece of irrelevant evidence. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple pieces of irrelevant evidence. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by selecting evidence that is relevant to the argument.