A New Statewide Alternative Test Available

Students in grades three through eight, and grade eleven who have a cognitive disability that prevents him or her from taking the online California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments, and student whose individualized education program (IEP) teams designate the use of an alternative assessment on statewide assessments will take the summative California Alternate Assessments (CAAs) for English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. These students have, in previous years, taken the California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) for ELA and mathematics. Students in grades five and eight who are assigned to take the CAAs will also take the CAPA for Science.
 
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