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#:	25	Program Year:	2025-2026
Civic Objective:	Identify and describe volunteer and /or leadership opportunities in the community. (This objective has only 2 AAPs.)
TOPSpro Form #:	253C	AAP #:	25.3
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.
1	Identify local community organizations that use volunteers.
2	Write questions related to involvement in volunteer and/or leadership activities.
4	Report about a volunteer and/or leadership activity participated in or researched.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description:	Identify Community Organizations that Use Volunteers Given level-appropriate resources such as the internet, brochures, flyers, newspapers, or simplified resources (BH only), student will complete a chart for a level-appropriate number of community organizations (e.g. BH=2, IL=3, IH-A=4) in the local area that use volunteers and that student is interested in. Assessor will assign level-appropriate information/categories for student to complete, such as: • Name of agency • Contacts (volunteer coordinators) • Location • Phone • Web site URL • Types of volunteer opportunities • Training needed • Time commitment • Hours volunteers are needed • Requirements for volunteers (fingerprinted, TB tested) • Proximity of volunteer opportunities to student’s home Optimally, the chart will be created on a computer and sent to the assessor electronically.
Points Possible:	14	Level:	Beginning High - 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	4
Less than 70% of the items assigned to the Beginning High-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

Task: 2

Description:	Present an Oral Report About a Community Agency that Accepts Volunteers Content (20 points possible) After doing level-appropriate reading or research (optimally on the internet) on community agencies that accept volunteers, student will give an oral report on one agency. The report will be based on 3 areas of discussion (BH=1, IL=2, IH-A=3), such as: 1. information related to the agency such as name, location, kind of organization, kind of volunteer work, etc. 2. the benefits to that community agency of having volunteers 3. the benefits and/or difficulties related to being a volunteer at that agency and in general. Visual Aid: (4 points possible) In class, student will make a relevant, appropriate, legible, and neat visual (if handwritten) aid to support the oral report, such as a PowerPoint presentation (optimal), poster, etc. Optimally student will make the slide presentation accessible (508 compliant). Presentation (2 points possible) Student will use effective speech and body language throughout the report and will refer to a visual(s).
Points Possible:	26	Level:	Beginning High - Advanced

Scoring Rubric	Points
Content
IH-A=Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All three 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.	20
IH-A=Report is appropriate, clear and has correct content. All 3 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.	18
IL-A=Report is appropriate and has correct content. At least two 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.	16
IL-A=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.	14
BH-A=Report is appropriate and has correct content. At least one area is 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
BH-A=Report has correct content but lacks clarity. At least one area is discussed. May be unfocused with little or no supporting detail. May require a substantial degree of inference. There may be errors that interfere with meaning, but the report can be understood with inference.	10
Report is inappropriate, unclear, incorrect, no questions areas are discussed, or there is no report.	0
Visual Aid
Visual aid is relevant and appropriate and delineates the main points of the oral report. Visual aid is legible and neat if handwritten.	4
Visual aid is relevant and appropriate 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 is not relevant, not appropriate, or does not delineate any of the main points of the report. It is not legible or neat if handwritten, or there is no visual aid.	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:	40
Advanced:	36
Intermediate High:	32
Intermediate Low:	25
Beginning High:	16
Beginning Low: