Smarter Balanced

English Language Arts

Item and Task Specifications

 

APPENDIX B

 

Cognitive Levels

 

Smarter Balanced items should demonstrate that students have the ability to integrate knowledge and skills across multiple targets and are ready to meet the challenges of college and careers. Those items must be constructed at various levels of cognitive rigor representing different points on the Levels of Complexity scale. The numbers in the chart below represent the numbers to be used in the Smarter Balanced tables and forms for DOK 

 

This matrix from the Smarter Balanced Content Specifications for ELA draws from both Bloom’s (revised)Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and Webb’s Depth-of-Knowledge Levels below.