Florida US History End-of-Course Assessment Test Item Specifications

INDIVIDUAL BENCHMARK SPECIFICATIONS FOR
U.S. HISTORY END-OF-COURSE ASSESSMENT
This section of the Specifications describes how the U.S. History benchmarks are assessed on the
U.S. History EOC Assessment. The benchmarks assigned to the U.S. History course descriptions
serve as the foundation for this assessment. The U.S. History course descriptions can be found in
Appendix E.
The sample items included in the Specifications represent, whenever possible, a wide range of
difficulty and cognitive complexity. Although most of the test items are of average difficulty
and moderate complexity, some of the items presented will be challenging for some students
and are specifically included to prompt item writers to submit test items that will measure the
abilities of students in higher achievement levels. As a general rule, test items should be written
to varying cognitive complexities for each benchmark. This document is constructed to help
item writers see a range of difficulty and complexity for test items that may appear on the test.
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