1. California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP)

2. Purpose
The tests in CAASPP provide information to teachers, parents/guardians, and students about students’ progress and readiness for college and career.
Because CAASPP tests are given statewide, they provide an opportunity to measure the skills of all students against the same academic standards.
Given online, the tests are computer-adaptive, allowing more precise measurement of individual skills.

3. What is included in CAASPP?
Test
Administered to
ELPAC - English Language Proficiency Assessments for California
All English Learners or new students whose home language is not English
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Assessments (SBAC) for English Language Arts
Grades 3-8 and 11
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Assessments (SBAC) for Math
California Science Test (CAST)
Students in grades 5 and 8
California Alternative Assessment (CAA)
Students with the most significant cognitive disabilities whose IEP team designates the use
Physical Fitness Test
Grades 5 and 7

4. Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments
All students in grades three through eight and grade eleven take the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in ELA and mathematics with the following exceptions:
Students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and whose individualized education program (IEP) team designates the use of the alternate assessment (CAA)
English learners who have been enrolled in a school in the United States for fewer than 12 months for ELA only (optional exemption)

5. California Science Test (CAST)
The CAST measures what 5th and 8th grade students know and can do using the California Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS), which focus on understanding the scientific concepts found in the life sciences, earth and space sciences, and physical sciences.
These standards integrate
disciplinary core ideas
science and engineering practices
crosscutting concepts
to help students understand how science works in the natural world.

6. What do the tests include?
ELA and Math tests include
Computer Adaptive Test
adjusts the level of difficulty to the student’s abilities
scored on the number of correct answers and the level of difficulty
Performance Task
designed to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills to explore and analyze a complex, real-world scenario.

7. What do the tests include?
The California Science Testis a computer-based test that consists of
stand-alone questions
two or three performance tasks.
These performance tasks require students to solve a series of related questions.

8. Question Types Multiple Choice (A,B,C or D)
Multiple Response (A and D)
Open Response (Short answer or paragraph)
Highlighting Text
Drag and Drop
Graphing

9. Demonstration Go to www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training
Choose the Green Student Interface
Click Sign In
Select Grade
Select practice or training test

10. How do I help my child? On Testing Days Plenty of sleep before testing
A good, balanced breakfast
Everyday
Talk to your child about what he/she learned at school

11. How will I know how my child did?

12. What do we do with your child’s data?
State test scores provide information that helps us
refine pacing guides
schedule intervention or enrichment
plan and scaffold instruction
develop and monitor the School Site Plan

13. Crittenden Testing Dates
CAST- 8th grade Science test (April 30th-May 3rd)
CAASPP-All grades (May 7th - May 17th)