Standard #: LAFS.910.SL.1.2 (Archived Standard)

Test Item Specifications

Item Type(s): This benchmark may be assessed using: TM , MS , MC , OR , GR , SHT item(s)
Assessed with: LAFS.910.RL.3.7 and LAFS.910.SL.1.3


Assessment Limits :
Items should focus on the similarities and differences between the two stimuli. An item may focus primarily on either stimulus. Items that do not focus on the text representation should not rely exclusively on technical or background knowledge. Items may ask students to evaluate the credibility of each work.Written transcripts, excerpts, and/or direct quotations from an audio clip should not be provided in item stems or answer options. Items may ask students to evaluate the credibility of each work.
Text Types :
Items assessing these standards may be used with two or more grade-appropriate literary 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 these standards (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
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic media, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to choose words, phrases, or sentences from the text that show how the text and visual representation are similar or different.
• Requires the student to select what is emphasized or absent in one of the works from the choices and then to select an analysis of how this representation affects the work’s meaning. 
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a correct analysis of the impact that a similarity or difference has on the overall effect of the works. 
Open Response
• Requires the student to explain the impact that a similarity or difference has on the overall effect of the works in one or two sentences.
Task Demand
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic media, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
Sample Response Mechanisms
GRID
• Requires the student to drag into a graphic organizer similarities or differences between representations of a subject or scene. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by analyzing how a key scene is depicted in two different artistic media.
Task Demand
Analyze the credibility and accuracy of sources presented in different media.
Sample Response Mechanisms
Multiple Choice
• Requires the student to select a correct analysis of the credibility and accuracy of one or both works. 
Selectable Hot Text
• Requires the student to select aspects that lend themselves to the source’s credibility. 
Multiselect
• Requires the student to select multiple aspects that affect the source’s credibility. 
GRID
• Requires the student to move the ways that the source solidifies its credibility into a graphic organizer. 
Open Response
• Requires the student to analyze the credibility or the accuracy of a source in one or two sentences. 
Table Match
• Requires the student to complete a table by matching descriptions of claims with evaluations of their levels of credibility and/or accuracy.