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Welcome 3rd Grade DLI Parents!!

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Understanding the CAASPP System �2024-2025

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Multilingual Programs

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Academic Technology

Goals for Today

• Understand the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) System
• Review the CAASPP assessments by grade level
• Learn the different parts of the CAASPP tests
• Compare the different achievement levels

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Review your acronyms

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2024-2025 Assessments

• Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments: March-May 2025
• ELA and Math for all students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11
• California Science Test (CAST): March-May 2025
• All students in grades 5, 8, and 11th grade will take CAST unless their IEP indicates assessment with CAAs
• California Alternate Assessment (CAA)
• March - May 2025: ELA and Math for students in grades 3 through 8 and 11
• October - May 2025: Science for students in grades 5, 8, and 11

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Computer Based

• Students take the Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) and Performance Task (PT) in ELA and Math online
• Traditional multiple choice and at least six other question types are used, including questions that require constructed written responses

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What is the CAT?

• The Smarter Balanced Assessment System includes computer adaptive tests that are customized to each student
• During the test, the difficulty/complexity of questions changes based on student responses
• In this way, adaptive tests provide more precise information about student achievement in less time than a “fixed-form” test in which all students see the same set of questions
• The test adapts to the student item-by-item which mean fewer test items are needed

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How is the CAT scored?

• As students progress through the test, their pattern of responses are tracked and revised
• Successive test questions are selected to increase the precision about the level of achievement given the current estimate of a student’s ability
• Scores from the CAT portion of the test are based on the complexity of the test questions, NOT the sum of the number answered correctly

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What is a PT?

• The Smarter Balanced Assessment System includes a Performance Task (PT) which is a portion of the test that requires students to answer a set of complex questions centered on a common topic or problem in both ELA and Math

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How is the PT scored?

• The items associated with the Performance Tasks require both computerized and hand scoring depending on the individual question
• For each student, the responses from the PT and CAT portions are merged for final scoring
• Resulting ability estimates are based on the specific test questions that a student answered both from the CAT and the PT, not the total number of items answered correctly

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How are results reported?

• Summary results for districts are based upon data that has been completely processed by July, 2024.

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• ParentVUE

CAASPP Scores

• Overall Scores: Each student will receive an overall score for ELA and Math expressed as a number between 2000 and 3000
• Achievement Levels: Each overall score falls into one of four achievement levels

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Achievement Levels

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Standard Exceeded

Needs substantial improvement

for success in future coursework

Standard Nearly Met

May require further development for success in future coursework

Demonstrates progress

toward mastery.

Demonstrates advanced

progress toward mastery.

Standard Met

Standard Not Met

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Claim Results ELA

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Reading

Research/Inquiry

How well does your child understand stories and information that he or she reads?

How well can your child find and present information about a topic?

Claim Results Math

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Concepts and Procedures

Mathematical Practices

How well can your child apply strategies to solve complex problems and explain the reasoning for the solution?

How well does your child use mathematical rules and ideas?

ELA Claim Descriptors

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http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca/elaclaimdescript.asp

Math Claim Descriptors

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http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca/elaclaimdescript.asp

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