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51 Assessment Guide for Educators: RLA Appendix A What’s different on the RLA test in the Language content domain? While virtually all of the language conventions and usage skills that are measured on the 2002 Series Writing Test will continue to be measured in the RLA editing tasks, one of the biggest innovations that appear in this content area is in how these tasks are presented. On the 2002 Series, editing items appear in multiple-choice format in which sentences or phrases that contain errors are excerpted from a passage. On the RLA test, however, test-takers will find passages with embedded drop-down menus within them. These drop-down style items simulate real-life editing tasks because, once the test-taker has chosen the appropriate phrase selection from the menu, the phrase selection appears right in the passage so that the test-taker can see the selection in the context of the sentence and overall passage.
RLA – Language: Content Specifications 2002 Current test • Edit to eliminate verb tense errors (including sequence of tenses, word clues to tense in sentences, word clues to tense in paragraphs, and verb form). L.1 .2 Edit to correct errors in straightforward subject-verb agreement. L.1 .7 Edit to correct errors in subject-verb or pronoun antecedent agreement in more complicated situations (e.g., with compound subjects, interceding phrases, or collective nouns). • Edit to eliminate pronoun reference errors (including incorrect relative pronouns, pronoun shift, vague or ambiguous references, and agreement with antecedents). [Note: This skill is assessed on the 2014 test via Extended Response Scoring Rubric Trait 3 only.] • Edit to eliminate pronoun reference errors (including incorrect relative pronouns, pronoun shift, vague or ambiguous references, and agreement with antecedents). L.1 .3 Edit to correct errors in pronoun usage, including pronoun- antecedent agreement, unclear pronoun references, and pronoun case. L.1 .7 Edit to correct errors in subject-verb or pronoun antecedent agreement in more complicated situations (e.g., with compound subjects, interceding phrases, or collective nouns). • Edit to eliminate errors in capitalization (including proper names and adjectives, titles, and months/ seasons). L.2.1 Edit to ensure correct use of capitalization (e.g., proper nouns, titles, and beginnings of sentences). • Edit to eliminate errors in punctuation (including commas in a series, commas between independent clauses joined by a conjunction, introductory elements, appositives, and the overuse of commas). L.2.4 Edit to ensure correct use of punctuation (e.g., commas in a series or in appositives and other non-essential elements, end marks, and appropriate punctuation for clause separation). • Edit to eliminate errors in spelling (restricted to errors related to possessives, contractions, and homophones). L.1 .1 Edit to correct errors involving frequently confused words and homonyms, including contractions (passed, past; two, too, to; there, their, they're; knew, new; it's its). L.2.3 Edit to ensure correct use of apostrophes with possessive nouns. [Not assessed on the 2002 Series test.] L.1 .4 Edit to eliminate non-standard or informal usage (e.g., correctly use try to win the game instead of try and win the game)