THE IOWA TESTS
Analysis of Social Studies Materials
(9th Grade)
Provided by Home Ed (Home Educators of Greater Little Rock)
This test provides evidence of the student's ability to analyze and evaluate various kinds of social studies information. The test passages and questions use materials from a variety of content areas: history, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, and economics. While each question has as its context one or more of the content areas, the answers to the questions, for the most part, do not depend on recall of specific facts learned in such courses. Primary documents, posters, cartoons, timelines, maps, graphs, tables, charts, and reading passages are used to present information to students. The skills measured by the majority of questions are probably reinforced in a variety of social studies classes.