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2016–17 California Alternate Assessment Practice Test Scoring Guide 1
Guide Content The California Alternate Assessment (CAA) for English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA) Practice Test Scoring Guide for Grade Eleven is a companion document to the online grade eleven CAA for ELA practice test. It provides details about the items and the correct responses on the practice test. The items on the practice tests are designed to contain the following information:
Broad coverage of content that closely mirrors the summative blueprint
A variety of student response types
Breadth of difficulty levels ranging from easier to more difficult items
What are the differences between practice tests and training tests?
Practice tests are designed to allow educators and students to experience grade-level test content.
Training tests are designed to allow educators and students to gain experience with different item response types that a student may encounter on the CAAs. There are no scoring guides for the training tests.
This scoring guide provides the following item-by-item information for the grade eleven practice test items:
Item—the item sequence number within the practice test
Grade—the grade level for the item
Domain—the broad content area being assessed by the item (e.g., Geometry)
Connector (Core Content Connector)—the specific alternative achievement standard being assessed by the item (Each Connector is linked to a Common Core State Standard.)
Tier—the level of item complexity, with Tier 1 being least complex and Tier 3 being most complex
Test question—the prompt that asks students to show what they know and can do.
Key—the correct student response to the item.
Rubric—the score points related to each item and sample correct responses.
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Read the passage and answer questions 1-3.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
1 11 Informational
1112.RI.e1 Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to address a question or solve a problem.*
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Key: A
Rubric: (1 point) The student selects the correct response.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
2 11 Text Types and Purposes (Informative/Explanatory)
1112.WI.b2 Create an organizational structure for writing that groups information logically (e.g., cause/effect, compare/contrast, descriptions and examples) to support paragraph focus.
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Key: B
Rubric: (1 point) The student selects the correct response.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
3 11 Informational 1112.RI.b1 Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions, or summaries of text.
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Key: Elephant seals are social animals
Rubric:
(2 point) The student selects the correct answer on the first attempt.
(1 point) The student selects the correct answer on the second attempt.
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Read the passage and answer questions 4-6.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
4 11 Literature
1112.RL.d1 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning.
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Key: See exemplar to the right.
Rubric:
(2 points) The student chooses the two correct responses.
(1 point) The student chooses one of the correct responses, but not both.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
5 11 Language
1112.RWL.b1 Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
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Key: feelings
Rubric:
(2 point) The student selects the correct answer on the first attempt.
(1 point) The student selects the correct answer on the second attempt.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
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Production and Distribution of Writing (Argument)
1112.WP.f1 Produce a clear coherent permanent product that is appropriate to the specific task, purpose (to persuade), and audience.
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Key: The student completes the sentence using details from the story
Exemplar: you must learn to follow directions, employees must learn to accept correction, you can learn to work well with others, etc.
Rubric:
(2 points) The student completes the sentence using details from the story.
(1 point) The student attempts to complete the sentence using details from the story
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
7 11 Text Types and Purposes (Informative/Explanatory)
1112.WI.b4 Select the facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples that are most relevant to the focus and appropriate for the audience.
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Key: See exemplar below.
Rubric:
(2 points) The student chooses the correct response for both targets.
(1 point) The student chooses the correct response for one of the two targets, but not both.
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Read the passage and answer question 8.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
8 11 Informational 1112.RI.b1 Use two or more pieces of evidence to support inferences, conclusions, or summaries of text.
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Key: See exemplar below.
Rubric:
(2 points) The student chooses the two correct responses.
(1 point) The student chooses one of the correct responses, but not both.
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Read the passage and answer question 9.
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Item Grade Category Connector Tier
9 11 Informational 1112.RI.d1 Determine the author’s point of view or purpose in a text.
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Key: See exemplar below.
Rubric:
(2 points) The student chooses the two correct responses.
(1 point) The student chooses one of the correct responses, but not both.
