Do responses to CASL tests have to be grammatically correct?
The answer to this question depends on the test. On tests that require one-word responses, the response must be appropriate to the item. For example, in Sentence Completion, the word used to complete the sentence must be the proper part of speech to make that sentence grammatically correct. In Antonyms, the antonym that is elicited must be the same part of speech as the prompt given. Although the scoring of these tests does not specify grammatical correctness as such, it is understood by looking at the correct responses listed. The expressive Syntactic tests all have a grammatical component. Because Syntax Construction is an open-ended test measuring the examinee’s ability to generate sentences in correct syntactic form, the responses must be grammatically correct. However, the examinee does not always have to answer in a complete sentence. Sometimes the item focus is simply a prepositional phrase or a past tense verb. In those cases, just a grammatically correct prepositional phrase o
