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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#: 32 Program Year: 2025-2026
Civic Objective: Locate, analyze and describe job requirements, licenses, credentials, etc. needed for specific jobs and identify resources available to help access the information
TOPSpro Form #: 320CX AAP #: 32
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.
2 Discuss ways to locate additional employment related information.
3 Locate information regarding job requirements and licensing agencies.
6 Summarize and compare information gathered about job requirements.
7 Make an oral presentation or write an article or letter explaining the requirements of one occupation of interest to the student.
9 Research educational and job opportunities and resources using the internet or other resources.
10 *Identify job titles, responsibilities, and places of work.
11 *Identify different jobs, job duties, and wages associated with jobs.
12 *Name employment possibilities in the community.

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
Content
Response is correct and comprehensible. 1
Response is incorrect or incomprehensible or there is no response. 0

Task: 2

Description: Find Information to Compare Occupations

After researching a level-appropriate number of occupations of interest to the student (optimally on the internet), student will complete a chart comparing level-appropriate categories of information about the occupations assigned by the examiner such as:

• Job description
• Job requirements (such as education, license, internship and/or prior experiences, etc.)
• Additional employment related information (i.e. skills needed, salary, benefits, current job outlook, future trend, specific local agencies/resources to gain more information, etc.)

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

The resources used for research (eg.pages from Occupational Outlook or urls, etc.) will be attached and submitted.

Optimally, the chart will be created on a computer and sent to the assessor electronically.

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
70% of the items assigned to the Beginning High level students are correct OR 80% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low level students are correct. 4
70% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low level students are correct 2
Less than 70% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low - Advanced 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 About an Occupation
Content (20 points possible)
Student will choose an occupation from the occupations student researched to create the chart in task 2 and deliver an oral report about that occupation.
Student (BH) may give the report individually to examiner or to a small group which includes the examiner.
The report will include 4 topics such as:
• Job description
• Job requirements (such as education, license, internship and/or prior experiences, etc.)
Visual Aid (4 points possible)
In class, student will make a relevant, appropriate, legible and neat (if handwritten) visual aid to support the oral report such as a powerpoint presentation (optimal), poster, etc.
Presentation (2 points possible)
Student will use effective speech and body language and will refer to the visual throughout the report.

Points Possible:26Level:Beginning High - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content A
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All four topics are covered. 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. 20
Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All 4 topics are covered. 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. 18
Report is appropriate and has correct content but may lack clarity. At least 3 topics are covered. 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. 16
Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least 2 topics are covered. 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 report can be understood with inference. 14
Report is inappropriate, unclear, incorrect, no questions are answered or there is no report. 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
Visual Aid
Visual aid(s) is relevant and appropriate and delineates the main points of the oral report. Visual aid is legible and neat if handwritten. 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 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 no visual aid(s). 0

Rating Scale/Passing Scores

Total Points Possible: 40
Advanced: 36
Intermediate High: 32
Intermediate Low: 28
Beginning High: 21
Beginning Low: 11
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