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29 Assessment Guide for Educators: Social Studies Chapter 3: Performance Level Descriptors In order to progress to the GED® College Ready level, test-takers need to continue to strengthen the skills listed in the Below Passing and the Pass/High School Equivalency levels, including: – Identify aspects of a historical document that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose – Describe people, places, environments, processes, and events, and the connections between and among them – Identify the chronological structure of a historical narrative and sequence steps in a process – Analyze cause-and-effect relationships and multiple causation, including the importance of natural and societal processes, the individual, and the influence of ideas – Compare differing sets of ideas related to political, historical, economic, geographic, or societal contexts; evaluate the assumptions and implications inherent in differing positions – Analyze how a historical context shapes an author’s point of view – Integrate quantitative or technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis in print or digital text – Translate quantitative information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., table or chart); translate information expressed visually or mathematically into words – Represent data on two variables (dependent and independent) on a graph; analyze and communicate how the variables are related – Distinguish between correlation and causation