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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#: 53 Program Year: 2025-2026
Civic Objective: Research, identify and utilize the skills necessary to navigate educational, workplace and community environments, access opportunities and/or assert rights.
TOPSpro Form #: 532C AAP #: 53.2
Assessment Type: Oral, Written

Level Range

From: Beginning High To: Advanced

Language and Literacy Objectives

Language and literacy objectives with an asterisk (*) are suitable for beginning low level students.
3 Discuss and/or evaluate options for change or strategic actions that could be taken to address social justice issues.
4 Identify and/or discuss legal rights and/or responsibilities related to educational, workplace and community environments.
6 Identify and/or demonstrate skills for problem solving and/or conflict resolution in educational, workplace and community contexts.
11 Identify organizations that educate and advocate for social justice.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description: Identifying Social Justice Issues
Given level-appropriate scenarios (BH-2, IL=3;IH=4, A=5) of social justice issues in the workplace, educational institution(s) and/or community such as:
1. violation of rights
2. lack of:
-access
-opportunities for participation
-equity,

student will answer up to 3 questions (BH=2, IL-A=3) for each scenario such as:
1. What is/are the social justice issue(s)
2. Why is it/are they an issue?
3. How might this issue be solved/resolved?

Points Possible:15Level:Beginning High - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Response is correct and comprehensible. 1
Response is incorrect or incomprehensible, or there is no response. 0

Task: 2

Description: Present an Oral Report

Content (14 points possible)

After doing level-appropriate research on a social justice topic of student's choice, student (IL-A) will give an oral report on student's findings. The oral report will contain information for up to 5 areas (IL-3, IH-A-5) such as:
1. Statement of the issue
2. Consequence of the issue
3. Organization that could offer information/suggestions and/or assistance for taking action
4. Suggested solution/and or action to take to remedy the issue
5. Reason for selecting this action

Possible topics for IL-A:

1. Pre-employment and/or workplace discrimination
2. Discriminatory practices in schools, health care, law enforcement, community services, etc.
3. Environmental injustice

Student (BH) will make a report on the 2 questions answered in Task 1 for one of the scenarios.

Visual Aid (4 points possible)
In class, student will make a relevant, appropriate, legible and neat (if handwritten) visual aide such as a slide presentation, poster, 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
IH-A: Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All five areas 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
IH-A: Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. At least four areas 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
IH-A: Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. At least three areas are discussed. Some ideas may not be well stated. May lack appropriate or sufficient detail. May require some inference. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. IL: Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. Three areas 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. 10
IL: Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. At least two areas 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. BH: Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. The answers to two questions are discussed. Some ideas may not be well stated. May require minimal inference. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. 8
IL: Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least two areas 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. BH: Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. Two areas 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. 6
BH: Report has correct content but lacks clarity. The answer to 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. 4
Report is inappropriate, unclear, incorrect, there is no report or no questions are answered. 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 if handwritten. 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 if handwritten. 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 (if handwritten) 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: 35
Advanced: 31
Intermediate High: 25
Intermediate Low: 19
Beginning High: 12
Beginning Low:
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