Standard #: LAFS.7.RI.3.8 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , MC , SHT 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 the argument or specific 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 should not focus on irrelevant or inappropriate evidence.
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
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select words or phrases from the text to support an evaluation of an argument or claim. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to select an evaluation of the text and then to select words or phrases from the text to support the evaluation selected. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select an evaluation of an argument or claim in the text.
• Requires the student to select an analysis of an argument or claim in the text. 
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. 
 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by analyzing the argument and specific claims, evaluating the extent to which the claims are supported.