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What’s New with the California Spanish Assessment

Learn about the latest developments in the California Spanish Assessment (CSA), including the timeline of activities, student score reports, reporting study, and accessibility resources for training and practice tests. Engage in continuous improvements based on stakeholder input and post-test surveys to better understand the test-taking population.

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What’s New with the California Spanish Assessment

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  1. What’s New with the California Spanish Assessment

  2. Overview • Timeline of Activities • CSA Student Score Report (SSR) • CSA Reporting Study • Accessibility Resources for Training and Practice Tests

  3. 140 local educational agencies participated! Administered to over 39,000 students!

  4. Timeline of Activities

  5. Continuous Improvements • Engage in a continuous process of improvement • Post test survey • Stakeholder input • Gain a better understanding of the test-taking population

  6. CSA Reporting Study Purpose Purpose: Examine how teachers and administrators make sense of the results from both the CSA and the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts (ELA) assessment.

  7. CSA Reporting Study Research Questions • How could teachers and administrators interpret the results from the CSA and the Smarter Balanced ELA assessment together? • What additional information would teachers and administrators need to interpret these scores together? • How could teachers and administrators use the scores from both assessments?

  8. CSA Reporting Study Scenarios Profiles of students with both scores

  9. Accessibility Resources for Practice and Training Tests http://www.caaspp.org/rsc/pdfs/CSA.accessibility-considerations.2018.pdf • Closed captioning • Audio transcripts • Refreshable Braille • Text to speech (Reading only)

  10. 2019–20 Administration Window • Opens on January 14, 2020 • Administer after 66% of the instructional year has been completed • May select a window within the window (not mandatory)

  11. English Language Proficiency and Spanish Assessments Office Phone: 916-319-0784 CSA email: caaspp@cde.ca.gov CSA web page: http://www.caaspp.org/ (under the Test Administration tab) Email: caaspp@cde.ca.gov Find us on Twitter @CDEAssessments Subscribe to the Assessment Spotlights by sending a blank email message to subscribe-caaspp@mlist.cde.ca.gov.

  12. Guided Reflection (1) Self Reflection

  13. Guided Reflection (2) Table Talk

  14. Guided Reflection (3) Parking Lot

  15. Posted by the California Department of Education | September 2019

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