Test Specification
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Language Arts Literacy
Skills Specifications
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Viewing (p. 19)
Students become critical viewers when they respond
thoughtfully to print and non-print visual messages. Students
taking the ESPA, GEPA, and HSPA will view an eight- to twelve-minute
video and answer multiple-choice and two open-ended questions.
Questions will be based on those skills that critical viewers
use to understand, analyze, and assess visual text.
Appropriate background information will be supplied
in print and read aloud to the students prior to the viewing
of the video.
Students will be assessed on their ability to
interpret and critique/analyze the content, meaning, and organization
of the video presentation.
Students will:
- recognize a theme or central idea.
- recognize details that develop the theme
or central idea.
- recognize the organizational structure of
the text.
- paraphrase, retell, or interpret segments
of the text.
- determine purpose (entertain, persuade, inform).
- make judgments, form opinions, and draw conclusions
from the text.
- analyze use of the elements and conventions
(humor, irony, setting, metaphor,
- etc.) that contribute to meaning.
- analyze their own response to text.
Notes:
- The video may be a complete work or a self-contained
excerpt.
- Background information will be on the video
and printed in the student test booklet. Students will read
the background information silently while it is read to them.
- Students will not be permitted to take notes
during this portion of the test.
- Questions about theme or central idea will
focus on the main idea of the excerpt and/or the generalized
message of the video presentation.
- Students' knowledge of and experience in viewing should
not be limited to video presentations. The Core Curriculum
Content Standards require knowledge of and experiences in
a variety of media. (See Forms in the Viewing Skills Array,
Macro 3.5, Appendix E.
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