Standard #: LAFS.910.RI.3.9 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , MC , OR , SHT item(s)
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Assessment Limits :
Items should be used with paired texts, as at least two documents are necessary to meet the standard. Items should focus on the similarities and differences between the texts. Items may focus primarily on either text, but items should indicate or test for understanding of a clear link between the two works.
Text Types :
Items assessing this standard may be used with two or more grade-appropriate seminal U.S. documents. 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
Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select sentences or phrases from each work that show similarities or differences between how the works address related themes and concepts.
• Requires the student to select a similarity or difference between the works’ treatment of themes and concepts and then select how this affects the meaning of the works. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select examples from the text that show the works’ similarities or differences in their treatments of similar themes and/or concepts.
• Requires the student to select an explanation of how the works treat similar themes/concepts in a similar or different manner. 
Open Response
• Requires the student to analyze how the two texts treat similar themes or concepts in one or two sentences. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple sentences from a passage that share similarities with the ideas of another passage in the set.
Task Demand
Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, including how they address related themes and concepts.
Sample Response Mechanisms
EBSR
• Requires the student to first select a generalized similarity or difference between passages and then to select a phrase or sentence from an excerpt from each that illustrates this similarity or difference. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by analyzing seminal U.S. documents in light of their presentation of related themes and concepts.