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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#: 28 Program Year: 2025-2026
Civic Objective: Access the health care system and be able to interact with the providers.
TOPSpro Form #: 288C AAP #: 28.8
Assessment Type: Portfolio

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 Write questions to ask community health care providers.
6 *Complete a health history form online or in print.
10 *Explain medicine labels and medical warning labels.
17 *Identify and/or describe healthy and unhealthy lifestyles.
20 Listen to a speaker and/or participate in a discussion about health care services by asking questions and taking notes on the information provided.

Additional Assessment Plan Tasks

Task: 1

Description: Read and Interpret Medicine Labels
Working from a level-appropriate worksheet with pictures showing 6 medicine labels (3 prescription and 3 non-prescription), student will:

Content A (6 items, 6 points possible)
Label each picture “prescription” or "non-prescription."

Content B (6 items, 12 points possible)
Student will answer up to 6 level-appropriate questions (BL=3, BH=4, IL=5, IH-A=6) one for each label.
Examples of questions:
When do you take this medicine?
What are the directions for taking this medicine?
Does the medicine have an expiration date?
If yes, what is it, and what do you do when the medicine expires?

Points Possible:18Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content A
Label is correctly identified. 1
Label is incorrectly identified. 0
Content B
Response answers the question adequately. May not be well stated. May require minimal inference. 2
Response answers the question minimally but relation to the question is evident. May be unfocused or unclear. May require a substantial degree of inference. 1
Nothing written, or content is incomprehensible or inappropriate. 0

Task: 2

Description: Respond to Speaker
Having listened to a speaker give a presentation on health care services, student will provide written response to 4 pre-determined questions that were asked of the speaker.

Points Possible:18Level:Beginning High - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Response answers the question adequately. May not be well stated. May require minimal inference. 4
Response answers the question minimally but relation to the question is evident. May be unfocused or unclear. May require a substantial degree of inference. 2
Nothing written, or response is incomprehensible or inappropriate. 0
Grammar, Structure and Mechanics
Some errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation that do not distract the reader. 2
Many errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation that may require the reader to infer meaning. 1
Errors make the writing difficult to understand even with inference. 0

Task: 3

Description: Create a Healthy Living Booklet
Student will draw or collect a minimum of 5 pictures depicting healthy and unhealthy lifestyle choices and will create a booklet using the pictures. Student will describe (IL-A in one or more paragraphs; BL-BH in sentences, phrases or words) each picture telling why it represents a healthy or unhealthy life style choice (including illnesses and symptoms related to unhealthy lifestyle choices).

Points Possible:20Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Addresses 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).(IL-A) 14
Addresses the task adequately. Some ideas may not be well stated. Contains some relevant detail. May require minimal inference. Written in adequately-organized paragraph(s).(IL-A) 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). (IL-A) 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 a paragraph(s). (IL-A) 8
Ideas expressed adequately in sentences, phrases, or words. Some ideas may not be well stated. May require some inference. (BL-A) 6
Ideas expressed minimally in sentences, phrases, or words but relation to the task is evident. May be unfocused or unclear. May require a substantial degree of inference.(BL-A) 4
Nothing written, or content is incomprehensible or inappropriate.(BL-A) 0
Grammar, Structure and Mechanics
Paragraph(s) have almost no errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. (IL-A) 4
Paragraphs have some errors in grammar, structure, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation that do not distract the reader. (IL-A) 3
Sentences, words, or phrases have mostly correct spelling and capitalization. (BL-A) 2
Sentences, words, or phrases have many errors spelling and capitalization that may require the reader to infer meaning. (BL-A) 1
Errors make the writing difficult to understand even with inference. (BL-A) 0
Format, Neatness and Legibility
Pictures are labeled, and writing uses appropriate paragraph indentations, etc. Writing is neat and legible. (IL-A) 2
Pictures are labeled, and writing is legible but may not be neat. (BL-A) 1
Pictures are not labeled, or writing does not use appropriate indentations, etc., or writing is neither legible nor neat. 0

Task: 4

Description: Complete a Health History Form
Given an agency-created patient health history, student (IL-A) will complete an authentic health history form. Student (BL-BH) will complete an authentic health history form 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 (2) giving BL-BH a reduced form which includes only those sections of the authentic form (given to IL-A students) that are assigned to BL-BH students.
These authentic forms are optimally internet based (see internet guidelines on the EL Civics website) but can be a paper based ones.

Points Possible:16Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
90% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct 14
80% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct 12
70% of the items assigned to the Intermediate Low-Advanced level students are correct 10
80% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low- Beginning High level students are correct 8
70% of the items assigned to the Beginning Low- Beginning High level students are correct 6
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

Task: 5

Description: Select Work Sample
Student will choose a sample of student's classroom work to include in the portfolio and provide a brief oral or written explanation giving the reason for choosing this sample. If the explanation is given orally, assessor will provide a summary or a checklist for inclusion in the portfolio.

Points Possible:2Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Work sample included and explained. 2
Work sample not included and/or not explained. 0

Task: 6

Description: Reflect on Learning
Student will answer 3 questions (or complete a checklist, survey or questionnaire) reflecting on student’s increased ability to access the health care system and interact with the providers based on what student has learned (3 simple questions requiring oral or written short answers for BL-BH and more complex questions requiring longer oral or written responses for IL-A).

Points Possible:2Level:Beginning Low - Advanced
Scoring Rubric Points
Content
Responses are appropriate, clear, and complete. There may be errors but they do not interfere with meaning. 2
Responses are appropriate. They may lack clarity or may be partially complete. There may be errors which interfere with meaning but the responses can be understood with inference. 1
Responses are inappropriate, incomprehensible, or there are no responses. 0

Rating Scale/Passing Scores

Total Points Possible: 76
Advanced: 68
Intermediate High: 60
Intermediate Low: 50
Beginning High: 29
Beginning Low: 18
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