Standard #: LAFS.4.RI.2.6 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , EBSR , MS , ST , MC item(s)
N/A


Assessment Limits :
Items may require the student to compare and/or contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts within the same text. Items may ask the student to compare and/or contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts in multiple texts. Items may ask the student to identify the differences in focus and information provided by a firsthand and a secondhand account of the same event or topic.
Text Types :
The items assessing this standard may be used with one or more grade-appropriate informational texts. Texts may vary in complexity.
Response Mechanisms :
The Enhanced Item Descriptions section on page 3 provides a list of Response Mechanisms that may be used to assess this standard (excluding the Editing Task Choice item type). The Sample Response Mechanisms may include, but are not limited to, the examples below.
Task Demand and Sample Response Mechanisms :

Task Demand
Determine similarities and/or differences between firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text
• Requires the student to select details from each text that show a similarity or difference between the firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic. 
EBSR
• Requires the student to select a description of the similarities or differences between firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic and then to select details from one or more texts that support that description. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a description of the similarities or differences between firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple similarities or differences between the firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by comparing firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
Task Demand
Describe the differences in focus of or information provided by a firsthand and a secondhand account of the same event or topic.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Text 
• Requires the student to select details from each text that show a difference in the focus of or information provided by firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
EBSR
• Requires the student to select a description of the difference in the focus of or information provided by firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic and then to select details from one or more texts that support that description. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a difference in the focus of or information provided by firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple differences in the focus of or information provided by firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic.
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by contrasting the focus of or information provided by a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic.