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5 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Chapter 1: Assessment Targets nonfiction, the RLA test includes texts from both academic and workplace contexts. The texts’ ideas, syntax, and style reflect a range of complexity levels. The writing tasks, or extended response (ER) items, require test-takers to analyze given source texts and use evidence drawn from the texts to support their answers. The following specifications guide the GED® RLA test:
- Seventy-five percent of the texts in the exam are informational texts (including nonfiction drawn from science and social studies as well as a range of texts from workplace contexts); 25 percent are literary texts
- The texts included in the test cover a range of text complexity, including texts at the career-and college-readiness level
- Texts emphasize vocabulary that has multiple meanings dependent on subject area or context, rather than focusing on discipline-specific terms
- U.S. founding documents and “the Great American Conversation” that followed are required texts for study and assessment
- The length of the texts included in the reading comprehension component of the test varies between 400 and 900 words
- The items are written to a Depth of Knowledge cognitive complexity level 1, 2, or 3 Reading Comprehension on the GED® RLA T est The reading comprehension component of the GED® RLA test measures two overarching reading standards that reflect current research about career-and-college- readiness skills: • Determine the details of what is explicitly stated and make logical inferences or valid claims based on textual evidence • Read and respond to questions from a range of texts that are from the upper levels of complexity, including texts at the career- and college-ready level “The Great American Conversation” refers to texts like the founding documents (e.g. The Bill of Rights) or other contemporary ones, that reflect important ideas about American citizenship and modern liberties. Each target and indicator in the RLA assessment targets correspond to one or more Anchor Standards from the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. For example, R.2 refers to Reading Anchor Standard
- Similarly, W and L refer to Writing Anchor Standards and Language Anchor Standards, respectively.