The three items on the seventh row are similar in structure and we can deal with them together. This type of item involves more than just entering information in response to the label. The information requested by the label has to be compared with the 8-10 choices and the best one checked. This is a ‘cycle’ task. The information requested in each of the three items is a type of building, of management or of construction, rated at 2 for type of information. For the type of match on the document scale rating, this is a cycle task (2); independent cycles (0); matching one feature (0); one item response (0); no inference needed for given or requested (0); total 2. We can expect some distractors for the requested information, for example, the difficulty in deciding if a building is primarily open steel or protected steel when these two styles are mixed. (2) These items are high level 1 tasks.

2. For the two items in the fourth row, it is not clear if firefighters are to be included in the count of men and women. As firefighters match two categories, the form-filler has to decide whether to include them in both counts, or whether to assume that the men and women categories apply only to ‘civilians.’