Test Design
Science, Social Studies, Arts, and Geography
What are the areas the textual readings focus on?
Evidenced Based Selected Response Items
What are EBSR items?
The antagonist, protagonist, villains, heroes, and heroines.
What are the characters in a text?
The cow spoke softly to the birds.
What is personification?
The sentence with the main idea or topic of an essay.
What is the thesis statement?
Proof of what the reader has written about in a text.
What is textual evidence?
Technology Enhanced Items
What are TE items?
The exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the Topic Sentence?
Test item consists of Part A and Part B answers.
Multiple Select Items
What are MS test items?
He is as tall as the Empire State Building.
What is a simile?
What is a paradox?
The way the author portrays the character's thoughts and feelings, or the actions of the characters.
What is the author's tone?
Extended Response for the Prose Selection.
What is the essay?
Prose Constructed Response
What are PCR Items?
The main idea or topic in a sentence.
What is the subject of a sentence?
Live, boiled, crawfish For sale.
What is an Oxymoron?
The opinion of the author/writer about their subject and the evidence.
What is commentary?
Requires research along with three texts.
What is the Research Simulation Task?
Data Recognition Corporation
Words that describe other words or objects in a sentence.
What is an adjective?
Overused expressions
What are Idioms?
The last sentence wrapping up a body paragraph.
What is the concluding sentence?