The ITED is designed to examine and compare a student's ability in several educational fields, including vocabulary, reading comprehension, language, spelling, mathematical concepts and problem solving, computation, analysis of social studies materials, analysis of science materials, and use of sources.
Although the test is broken up into these fields, the goal of the ITED is to track the development of the skills and analysis needed in each of these areas rather than the content.
[3][4] The reading comprehension section of the ITED tests literal understanding as well as the higher-level skills of inference and analysis.
[3][4] The language section of the ITED focuses on students' ability to revise and edit texts, include issues of style and clarity as well as grammatical errors.
[3][4] This ITED section requires students to analyze information presented to them and will often contain documents including maps, graphs and reading passages.