Task Verbs Used In Free-Response Questions

Calculate

Perform mathematical steps to arrive at a final answer

Compare

Provide a description or explanation of similarities and/or differences. Numerically, this task verb requires a quantitative comparison of two or more values. In terms of distributions or graphical representations, this task verb requires identifying aspects of two or more distributions or graphical representations that are similar and that are different.

Complete

Identify parts, justify conditions, and calculate the results for the appropriate statistical inference methods.

Construct

Represent data in graphical or tabular form.

Describe

Provide the relevant characteristics of representations.

Determine

Apply an appropriate method, investigative question, or a claim based on calculations and/or findings

Estimate

Use models or representations to find approximations.

Explain

Provide information about how or why a relationship, process, position, situation, or outcome occurs, using evidence and/or reasoning to support or qualify a claim.

Identify / Classify

Indicate or provide information about a specified topic in words without elaboration or explanation.

Interpret

Describe the connection between a mathematical expression, representation, or solution and its meaning within the realistic context of a problem.

Justify

Provide evidence to support, qualify, or defend a claim, and/or provide statistical reasoning to explain how that evidence supports or qualifies the claim.