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All students can participate in EL Civics instruction and assessment. However, only ESL students in WIOA II EL Civics education programs can earn payment points for passing COAAP assessments. ABE, ASE, and CTE students can earn CAEP Immigrant Integration Indicator (I3) outcome for CAEP but not payment points for WIOA II. Please see Successful Implementation of COAAPs for CAEP Agencies for a crosswalk for ABE/ASE/CTE student placement into ESL COAAP instructional levels.
Civic Objective#: 33 Program Year: 2012-2013
Civic Objective: Identify and access employment and training resources needed to obtain and keep a job.
TOPSpro Form #: 033 AAP #: 33.5
Assessment Type: Oral, Written

Level Range

From: Beginning Low To: Advanced

Language and Literacy Objectives

Language and literacy objectives with an asterisk (*) are suitable for beginning low level students.
1 Identify local employment opportunities and the skills, training, and education required for them.
2 Locate and identify employment agencies, training agencies, and/or resource centers and describe their services.
3 Access employment and training information by using community resources such as library, school catalogs, yellow pages, and/or the Internet.
4 Analyze and evaluate descriptions of job duties, wages, and benefits.
9 *Read job ads and announcements for specific information.
10 *Identify job titles, responsibilities, and places of work.
11 *Identity different jobs, job duties, and wages associated with jobs.
12 *Name employment possibilities in the community.
16 Identify personal strengths, weaknesses, skills and past work experience.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description: Identify Jobs and Job Duties
The student will be presented with 5 pictures depicting various occupations and will respond to two questions from the examiner about each picture, such as:
1: What is the job/occupation?
2. What does this person do? (or What are the job duties/job responsibilities?)

Points Possible:10Level:Beginning Low - Beginning Low
Scoring Rubric Points
Response is correct and comprehensible. 1
Response is incorrect or incomprehensible or there is no response. 0

Task: 2

Description: Interpret Job Openings
Given resources such as “help wanted” ads or the Internet, student (IL-A) will interpret employment openings in fields related to job interests and will complete a chart of 4 job openings each of which will include 4 required elements such as:
1. Type of job
2. Qualifications
3. Experience required
4. How to apply

Given authentic or simplified resources, student (BH) will complete a chart of 4 job openings and 3 required elements.

Given simplified resources, student (BL) will complete a chart of 3 job openings and 3 required elements.

Student will attach to the chart the resources used to obtain the information (e.g., newspaper or Internet ads).

Points Possible:14Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
90% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct. 12
80% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct. 10
70% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct. 8
80% of the items assigned to the Beginning High level students are correct. 6
80% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low level students are correct. 4
Less than 70% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct OR less than 80% of the items assigned to Beginning Low or Beginning High level students are correct. 0
Format, Neatness and Legibility
Neat and legible. Spelling errors do not interfere with meaning. 2
Not neat or legible or spelling errors interfere with meaning. 0

Task: 3

Description: Present an Oral Report
Content (14 points possible)
After doing level-appropriate research on the training or educational pathway to the career of student's choice, student will give an oral report on student's findings. The report will be based on the answers to 4 questions such as:

1. What is the name of the program?
2. What do you need to apply for the program? What is the application process?
3. How long is the program?
4. What job(s) can you get after finishing the program?

Visual Aid (4 points possible)
In class, student will make a relevant, appropriate, legible and neat visual aide such as power point, poster, overhead transparency, etc., to support the oral report.

Presentation (2 points possible)
Student will refer to a relevant visual aid during the oral report. Student will use effective speech and body language throughout the report.

Points Possible:20Level:Beginning High - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All four questions are discussed. Ideas are well stated, clearly expressed, well organized and supported with concrete, relevant detail. No inference is required. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. 14
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. At least 3 questions are discussed. Some ideas may not be well stated. Contains some relevant detail and is adequately organized. May require minimal inference. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. 12
Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. At least two questions are discussed. Many ideas may not be well stated. May lack appropriate or sufficient detail or clear focus. May require some inference. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. 10
Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least one question is discussed. May be unfocused with little or no supporting detail. May require a substantial degree of inference. There may be errors which interfere with meaning but the response can be understood with inference. 8
Report is inappropriate, unclear, incorrect, no questions are answered or there is no report. 0
Visual Aid
Visual aid(s) is relevant and appropriate and delineates the main points of the oral report. Visual aid(s) is legible and neat. 4
Visual aid(s) is relevant and appropriate but may not completely delineate the main point of the oral report. Visual aid(s) is legible but may not be neat. 2
Visual aid(s) is not relevant, not appropriate, does not delineate any of the main points of the report or is not legible or neat or there is no visual aid(s). 0
Presentation
Student uses effective speech and body language through most of the presentation and refers to a relevant visual aid. 2
Student reads the entire report or speaks too softly to be heard and/or does not refer to or have a visual aid. Body language distracts from the report. 0

Rating Scale/Passing Scores

Total Points Possible: 34
Advanced: 30
Intermediate High: 26
Intermediate Low: 22
Beginning High: 15
Beginning Low: 11
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