Standard #: LA.7.1.7.3 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: MC item(s)
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Clarification :
The student will determine the main idea (stated or implied), identify a correct summary statement, locate relevant details and facts, draw logical conclusions, make appropriate inferences, and use details to make predictions beyond a text within or across grade-level appropriate texts.

Content Limits :
Grade-level appropriate texts should include an identifiable main idea (stated or implied) and relevant details from which students may draw logical conclusions or make inferences within or across texts. 

Paraphrasing should not be assessed. 

Items may assess a student’s ability to identify a correct summary statement.

Content Focus :
Main Idea (stated or implied)
Summary Statement
Relevant Details
Conclusions/Inferences
Predictions

Text Attributes :
Texts should be literary or informational. 

Other stimuli may include, but are not limited to, illustrations with captions, graphics, and charts. 

The text should include a main idea (stated or implied) with relevant details, which will enable students to draw logical conclusions and make appropriate inferences.

Distractor Attributes :
Distractors may include, but are not limited to 

• details that do not support the main idea; 
• incorrect interpretations of the main idea that are too broad, too narrow, or are a specific fact; 
• incorrect inferences, conclusions, or predictions based on details found in the text; 
• incorrect summary statements; and 
• plausible but incorrect distractors based on the text. 

Note: Items should not assess a student’s ability to identify details of least importance when assessing a summary or main idea statement. 

Note: A main idea should be stated in a complete sentence. 

Note: A summary statement should be expressed in a complete sentence. 

Note: When the main idea is assessed in a literary text, it should be assessed as a summary statement (e.g., “Which statement best summarizes the events in the passage?”). When the main idea is assessed in an informational text, it should be assessed as a main idea statement (e.g., “Which sentence best expresses the main idea of the article?”).

Sample Test Items (3)