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#:	33	Program Year:	2025-2026
Civic Objective:	Identify and access employment and training resources needed to obtain and keep a job.
TOPSpro Form #:	339C	AAP #:	33.9
Assessment Type:	Written, Role Play
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.
4	Analyze and evaluate descriptions of job duties, wages, and benefits.
5	Ask for information about prospective jobs on the telephone or in person.
6	*Complete a job application.
9	*Read job ads and announcements for specific information.
16	Identify personal strengths, weaknesses, skills and past work experience.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description:	Role Play a Request for Information about a Job In a simulated interaction, student will request information about a job opening. The assessor will play the role of a company employee with information about the job. Role Play: (up to 10 items, 20 points possible) Student will participate in a role play during which the student will complete 10 interactions: 1) offer a greeting and introduce himself/herself (BL-A); 2) state reason for inquiry (BH-A); 3) ask up to 6 questions (BL=2, BH=3, IL=4, IH=5, A=6) about topics such as starting date, wages, job requirements, job responsibilities and application process; 4) ask for clarification or verify a point of information sometime during the conversation (IL-A); 5) conclude the conversation(BL-A). Role Play Follow-up: (up to 3 items, 6 points possible) Following the role play, student will answer up to 3 level-appropriate comprehension questions ( BL=1; BH-IL=2; IH-A=3) about the information presented during the inquiry.
Points Possible:	26	Level:	Beginning Low - Advanced

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
Question/response is appropriate, clearly stated, and contains no errors that interfere with meaning.	2
Question/ response is appropriate, but contains errors that require inference in order to understand.	1
Question/ response is omitted, not appropriate, or incomprehensible.	0

Task: 2

Description:	Complete a Job Application Using a level-appropriate agency-created employment history, student (IL-A) will fill out an authentic job application (optimally electronic). Student (BL–BH) will fill out an authentic job application with a reduced number of sections that student needs to complete. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways such as: (1) giving BL-BH the complete form given to IL-A students and highlighting the sections BL-BH students need to fill out or (2) giving BL-BH a reduced form which includes only those sections of the authentic application (given to IL-A students) that are assigned to BL-BH students. Optimally, the application will be completed on a computer and sent to the assessor electronically.
Points Possible:	20	Level:	Beginning Low - Advanced

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
90% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct.	18
80% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct.	16
70% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct.	14
80% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low- Beginning High level students are correct.	12
70% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low- Beginning High level students are correct.	8
Less than 70% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low-Advanced level students are 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

Rating Scale/Passing Scores

Total Points Possible:	46
Advanced:	41
Intermediate High:	36
Intermediate Low:	30
Beginning High:	20
Beginning Low:	15