Study Guide

MoGEA Test Design and Framework

The test design below describes general assessment information. The framework that follows is a detailed outline that explains the knowledge and skills that this test measures.

Test Design

Format	Online proctored test
Number of Questions	Reading Comprehension and Interpretation: 39 multiple-choice questions Writing: 1 written assignment
Time	Reading Comprehension and Interpretation: 75 minutes Writing: 60 minutes
Passing Score	240; examinees must pass both subtests.

Test Framework

 

Reading Comprehension and Interpretation Subtest

Competency		Approximate Percentage of Test Score
0001	Literal Comprehension	33%
0002	Inference and Interpretation	33%
0003	Critical Reasoning and Evaluation	34%

0001–Demonstrate the ability to identify the main idea and supporting details in a college-level text.

For example:

• Identify the stated main idea of a paragraph or passage.
• Analyze the development of central ideas or themes over the course of a text.
• Recognize information, ideas, and details that support, illustrate, or elaborate the main idea or themes of a text; establish setting; or develop character.
• Apply knowledge of word structure, context, and syntax to determine the meanings of words and phrases in a text.
• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, connotative meanings, and the effect of specific word choices on meaning and tone of a text.
• Recognize an effective summary or outline of the main idea and key supporting ideas and details in a text.

0002–Demonstrate the ability to draw inferences and make credible interpretations of a college-level text.

For example:

• Recognize a writer's purpose for writing.
• Determine a writer's tone, opinion, or point of view.
• Recognize how a writer's choice of words expresses ideas and influences readers.
• Recognize similarities and differences among ideas in a text.
• Draw conclusions or make inferences from stated or implied information in a text.
• Recognize the implications of ideas and information presented in a text.

0003–Demonstrate the ability to use critical reasoning skills to evaluate a college-level text.

For example:

• Analyze the arguments or claims made in an informational or persuasive text, and distinguish between statements of fact and expressions of opinion.
• Recognize the type of appeal (e.g., emotional, ethical, logical) a writer is making to the reader.
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a writer's reasoning.
• Assess the relevance and sufficiency of supporting evidence, illustrations, or analogies in a text.
• Recognize the assumptions on which a writer's argument is based.
• Assess the credibility, accuracy, objectivity, and bias of information presented in a text.
• Analyze how literary devices and techniques (e.g., personification, metaphor, irony, foreshadowing) are used in a work of fiction, drama, or poetry to create a mood, develop a character, or convey a theme.

Writing Subtest

Competency		Approximate Percentage of Test Score
0004	Writing Assignment	100%

0004–Produce a clear and coherent written composition in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

For example:

• Demonstrate the ability to support claims in writing using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence, with an appropriate use of generalizations and adequate, specific, and illustrative details.
• Demonstrate the ability to produce focused, coherent, and unified writing, employing a variety of rhetorical strategies in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• Demonstrate the ability to use effectively words, phrases, clauses, transitional devices, and syntax to link sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify relationships between ideas.
• Demonstrate the ability to introduce and develop ideas through the effective use of thesis statements and/or topic sentences and to provide an effective conclusion that follows from the ideas presented in the composition.
• Demonstrate command of a variety of sentence structures and the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

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