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This benchmark may be assessed using:
MC
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- Clarification :
The student will analyze words that have multiple meanings and determine the correct meaning of the word as used in the text. - Content Limits :
Grade-level appropriate texts should be used to assess words with multiple meanings.Words with multiple meanings should be assessed using words on grade level or not more than two grades above or below grade level.
Excerpted text must contain clear and sufficient context for determining the meaning of the assessed word.
- Content Focus :
Multiple Meanings - Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational.Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts.
Texts must contain words with multiple meanings and must provide clear and sufficient context for the student to determine the correct meaning.
- Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to- correct meanings of the assessed word but inappropriate to the text;
- meanings drawn from the text but unrelated to the meaning of the assessed word or test item;
- words constructed similarly to the correct response (e.g., same affix, same tense); and
- plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: Sample Question for Grade 9
The sample item below is based on “A Day in the Stream” on page H–2.
Read the excerpt from the passage.
I showed him how to keep his fly from dragging, how to fish the deeper pools. He was absorbed by the whys and the hows and the execution.
In which sentence does execution have the same meaning as used in the excerpt above?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question: Sample Question for Grade 10
The sample item below is based on “Woman with Flower/Offspring” on page H–12.
Read these lines from “Woman with Flower.”
The leaf’s inclined to find its own direction;
Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself.In the lines above, what does the word inclined reveal about the leaf ?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
- Test Item #: Sample Item 3
- Question: Sample Question for Grade 10
The sample item below is based on “Quest-4 Cell Phone” on page H–13.
Read this excerpt from the User Manual.
To obtain a WEEK VIEW mode when in MONTH VIEW mode, simply highlight any day in the desired week and choose WEEK at the bottom left side of the display.
In which sentence does mode have the same meaning as used in the excerpt above?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
