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40 Assessment Guide for Educators: Social Studies Appendix B • Producing writing that thoroughly and logically develops an idea, claim, or argument based on primary and/or secondary • Supporting contentions with specific textual evidence from the source texts and demonstrating an understanding of the contexts in which these documents were written Reporting Category 3: Reasoning quantitatively and interpreting data in social studies contexts Examples of skills measured in Social Studies Reporting Category 3: • Analyzing data presented in a wide variety of formats, including maps, graphic organizers, photographs, and political cartoons • Integrating analyses of quantitative data with analyses of written information to inform their understanding of the topic at hand • Accurately using and interpreting graphs in order to analyze the differing ways in which variables are related to one another Important note regarding the Social Studies reporting categories: The Social Studies reporting categories are organized according to the Social Studies Practices, rather than the Social Studies content indicators. This organization has been chosen because the Social Studies Practices are integrated into every item on the Social Studies test. While the content indicators are also reflected in all items, the Social Studies content Topics and Subtopics are too numerous for the test to be able to provide reliable and meaningful reporting data. Test-takers, however, will be receiving much more detailed information both on the skills they possess and on those they need to develop than ever before. With this additional information, adult educators will be in a position to focus their work with test-takers on critical skill development needs. Refer to Appendix D of this chapter to view the detailed information that is captured in each of the Social Studies reporting categories. The reporting information provided by the Current GED® test is one of the most important elements of the new assessment system.