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Email: Info@ProgressTesting.com
Reading Content
Passages and Questions Written to NC EOG Goals and Objectives
Passages and Questions Written to NC EOG Goals and Objectives
- All NC EOG benchmarks are covered in NC EOG Test Maker's item bank.
- NC EOG Test Maker Reading Passages consist of Literary and Informational Texts in accordance with North Carolina Standards.
- Vocabulary is checked against published grade level word lists to ensure that it is grade-appropriate.
- Passages contain sufficient content, including details and development of ideas, and there are 15 to 20 questions per reading passage.
- Passages at a given grade level include a range of age-appropriate and engaging selections that are relevant to students and not limited to classroom or school-related situations.
- Passages include selections that are representative of various societies, eras, and ideas.
- Passages are free from any cultural bias, stereotyping (e.g., always having male doctors and female nurses), or offensive content.
- Passages are free from any cultural bias, stereotyping (e.g., always having male doctors and female nurses), or offensive content.
- Controversial, confusing, or emotionally charged subjects are avoided.
- There are no references to trademarks, commercial products, and/or brand names in any reading passage unless such reference is essential to the content of the passage.
- Passages represent a range of cultural diversity. Characters, settings, and situations reflect the variety of interests and backgrounds that make up the student population of North Caronlina.
- The reading level of each passage is within one year of or at the grade level for which the passage is intended.
- Selections for a given grade represent a range, with reading levels appropriate for both the beginning and end of the grade.
- Four indices of reading level are used to determine grade level appropriateness of a passage: Gunning-Fog, Flesch-Kincaid, Dale-Chall, and Lexile.
- Level I and Level II test items and performance tasks are included for each grade.
- Whenever possible, item stems are expressed as questions. Full capitalization is used to emphasize key words as appropriate for the grade level being tested (e.g., LEAST, EXCEPT, NOT, FIRST, BEST).
- Plural forms are used where appropriate to avoid gender-specific pronouns (e.g., "The students will make changes so that they . . ." instead of "the student will make changes so that he . . .").
- An equal balance of male and female names are used, including names representing different racial and/or ethnic groups appropriate for North Carolina.
- For all grades: story, article, passage, or poem, whichever is appropriate, is used when referring to reading selections. For grades 7-10, excerpt is used if the reading selection is an excerpt from a book or other material.
- Especially in grades 3, 4, and 5, the words ALIKE and DIFFERENT are used in items calling for comparison or contrast.
- Multiple choice with ABCD distractors.
- Passage types: fiction, informational consumer, informational content, literary nonfiction, and poetry.
- Marzano Thinking Skills identified for each question.
- 25/50/25 Difficulty Level distribution across item bank.