Phenomenon in Context

Though you will not be analyzing or writing assessment items (questions) during this workshop, it's important to understand how a phenomena and a context for the phenomena are related, to understand the hierarchy of the next steps of the assessment development process and how we will use your feedback to continue development of CMAS to the 2020 CAS. 

To get an idea of how to transition from a phenomenon to a context to a stimulus, consider the following sample phenomenon and three ideas of different contexts that could develop into stimuli.