California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP)

Resources to Prepare for the CAASPP Assessments for Students

Practice and Training Test

http://www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training/index.html

Interim Assessment Resources

Overview of Interim Assessments

 

Browse Items

This webpage will show you all the different item types and how they may look at a certain grade level.  There are several items that show grade level content as well as the item. This can be useful as a problem of the day. All the items for the Browse Items webpage comes from the practice test.

http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/BrowseItems

Answer Key for the Practice and Training Test and for the Browse Item Pages

Grade 6

• Mathematics (PDF) 
• Mathematics Braille (PDF) 
• Mathematics Performance Task (PDF) 
• ELA (including braille) (PDF) 
• ELA Performance Task (including braille) (PDF) 

Grade 7

• Mathematics (PDF) 
• Mathematics Braille (PDF) 
• Mathematics Performance Task (PDF) 
• ELA (including braille) (PDF) 
• ELA Performance Task (including braille) (PDF) 

Grade 8

• Mathematics (PDF) 
• Mathematics Braille (PDF) 
• Mathematics Performance Task (PDF) 
• ELA (including braille) (PDF) 
• ELA Performance Task (including braille) (PDF) 

Writing Rubrics

• Argumentative (PDF) (Updated 3/03/15)
• Explanatory (PDF) (Updated 3/03/15)
• Informational (PDF) (Updated 3/03/15)
• Narrative (PDF) (Updated 3/03/15)
• Opinion (PDF) 
• (Updated 3/03/15)

Calculators

The calculators that are used on the assessments can be viewed here and used in class. The DESMOS High School calculator is especially useful.

Grade 6 Calculator – http://calculator.smarterbalanced.org/basic.html 

Grade 7 and 8 Scientific Calculator – http://calculator.smarterbalanced.org/scientificinv.html