Look-back Buttons

Items sometimes refer to a defined piece (i.e., a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or section) of a stimulus passage. When the measurement goal of the item is to assess test takers’ ability to use the referenced piece of text as the basis for interpretation or evaluation (as opposed to their ability to locate it), a look-back button is provided in the text of the item. When pressed, a look-back button:

  • Auto-navigates the passage to the referenced piece of text.
  • Highlights the referenced piece of text. The default highlight color is a semi-transparent light blue rgba(125,189,255,0.5) , but other colors may be used to avoid contrast compliance issues.
  • Causes the highlighting on the piece of text to flash twice to bring attention to it.
  • In the eReader environment, the look-back button will close the item panel before triggering the events above.

Look-back button highlighting remains visible until the test taker navigates to another item. If test takers return to the item with the look-back button, they must press it again to see the highlighting.

Look-back buttons are presented as secondary filled buttons (see the Buttons page for more information) with custom sizing so they do not disrupt the line spacing of the surrounding text.

The following demo presents a look-back button for the word "tiresome".

The demo is 67% its actual size. To see a full-size demo, click here.
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