Standard #: LA.6.6.1.1 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

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


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

Content Limits :
Text features should be assessed using grade-level appropriate texts that may include, but are not limited to, informational articles and functional reading materials (e.g., websites, consumer documents, how-to articles, brochures, fliers, other real-world documents). 

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

Making a report, conducting interviews, preparing to take a test, and performing a task should not be assessed.

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

Text Attributes :
Texts should be informational. 

Texts may include, but are not limited to, grade-level appropriate informational articles and functional reading materials (e.g., websites, consumer documents, how-to articles, brochures, fliers, other real-world documents).

Stimuli found in text may include headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles, sections, captions, graphs, italicized text, charts, tables, illustrations, maps, diagrams, 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 analysis and interpretation of the text features;
• incorrect or irrelevant information drawn from text features; and
• plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text.

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 an informational/expository nonfiction article or in a functional selection (how-to documents, webpages, etc.), Benchmark LA.6.6.1.1 should be used. When assessing a text feature in a fiction or literary nonfiction passage, Benchmark LA.6.2.2.1 should be used.

Sample Test Items (2)