CASAS ELC AAP - AAP Detail

General Information

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#:	24	Program Year:	2012-2013
Civic Objective:	Identify and access community and government resources in order to prevent accidents, avoid becoming a crime victim, report accidents or crimes and request assistance in case of an accident or crime.
TOPSpro Form #:	024	AAP #:	24.4
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 various accidents that commonly occur at home (use pictures for lower levels).
2	Research literature pertaining to safety at home.
3	Categorize common home-related accidents by their sources.
4	*Describe ways to prevent accidents related to falls, poisons, burns, cuts, firearms, electric shocks, and water (sequence pictures of accidents and accident prevention that commonly occur at home for low-level students).
11	Describe precautions that can be taken to deter or avoid a crime.
14	*Report (orally or in writing) accidents, suspicious activities, or crimes.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description:	Find Information on Common Home Accidents Given level-appropriate resources such as the Internet, magazines, etc., student will complete a chart listing a level-appropriate number of common home accidents (e.g. 3) and listing a level appropriate number of preventive measures (e.g. 3) for each one.
Points Possible:	12	Level:	Beginning Low - Beginning High

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
90% correct	10
80% correct	8
70% correct	6
60% correct	4
50% correct	2
less than 50% correct	0
Legibility, Neatness, and Spelling
Neat and legible. Spelling errors do not interfere with meaning.	2
Not neat or legible or spelling errors interfere with meaning.	0

Task: 2

Description:	Write an Accident or Police Report Given level-appropriate resources such as an agency created scenario, student will complete an authentic writing task such as an accident report for an insurance company about a home accident, or a police report to report a crime. Report will include at least 3 items such as: (1) type and location of accident, (2) person(s) involved and relationship to homeowner/apartment renter, and (3) detailed description of accident.
Points Possible:	18	Level:	Intermediate Low - Advanced

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
Addresses all parts of the task effectively. Ideas are well stated, clearly expressed, and supported with concrete, relevant detail. No inference is required. Written in well-organized paragraph(s).	14
Addresses all parts of the task adequately. Some ideas may not be well stated. Contains some relevant detail. May require minimal inference. Written in adequately-organized paragraph(s).	12
Addresses the task in a general way but may have gaps. Many ideas may not be well stated. May lack appropriate or sufficient detail or clear focus. May require some inference. May be written in loosely-organized paragraph(s).	10
Addresses the task minimally but relation to the task is evident. May be unfocused or unclear. Little or no supporting detail. May require a substantial degree of inference. May not be written in paragraph(s).	8
Nothing written or content is incomprehensible or inappropriate.	0
Grammar, Structure and Mechanics
Almost no errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation.	4
Some errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation that do not distract the reader.	3
Many errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation that may require the reader to infer meaning.	2
Errors make the writing difficult to understand even with inference.	0

Task: 3

Description:	Present an Oral Report on Preventing Accidents and Crime in the Home Content (10 items, 18 points possible) Following an assignment on evaluating how well student’s home or apartment protects him/her from crime or accident, student will give an oral report describing the overall safety of student’s dwelling and pointing out improvements that student has made/will make as a result of this study. The report will be based on the answers to up to 5 level-appropriate questions (BL=3, BH=4, IL-A=5), such as: 1. What problem areas did you find in your home? Describe them and tell why they are a problem. 2. What problems were you able to fix? What did you do to fix them? 3. How did you get the work done? 4. What do you still need to fix? 5. What can you do to prevent new problems? Visual Aid (4 points possible) In class, student will make a relevant, appropriate, legible, and neat visual aid to support the oral report such as a power point presentation, poster, overhead transparency, etc. Presentation (2 points possible) Student will use effective speech and body language throughout the report and will refer to a visual(s).
Points Possible:	24	Level:	Beginning Low - Advanced

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All 5 questions are answered. 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.	18
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. At least 4 questions are answered. 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.	16
Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. At least 3 questions are answered. 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.	14
Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least 2 questions are answered. 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.	12
Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least 1 question is answered. 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.	10
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 is legible and neat.	4
Visual aid(s) is relevant and appropriate and but may not completely delineate the main points of the oral report. Visual aid 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 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:	42
Advanced:	37
Intermediate High:	32
Intermediate Low:	27
Beginning High:	20
Beginning Low:	16