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Content Standards & Basic Skills Certification, Sally Schroeder

ALIGNING CASAS COMPETENCIES AND ASSESSMENTS TO BASIC SKILLS CONTENT STANDARDS

What are Content Standards?

Impetus for Content Standards?

Why Content Standards?

Aligned Assessments

Alignment with Assessment is Key

Underlying basic skills content standards

Where do CASAS States Stand?

California Content Standards for Adult Education

The Approach

Content vs. Context Standards

Guidance from CASAS Consortium Member States

Adapt or Adopt?

Technical Work Group

Task Specifics

Tasks (cont’d)

Sample content standard

Next Steps

Iowa’s Content Standards:

 

 

Teacher Review of Content Standards Draft:

Basic Skills Certification Systems:

Basic Skills Certification Systems (cont.)

CHARACTERISTICS OF IOWA’S BASIC SKILLS CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Characterics

Characterics

Characterics

Characterics

Descriptor Statements for Iowa’s Basic Skills Certification Program by Subject Area and CASAS Level

Descriptor Statements for Iowa’s Basic Skills Certification Program by Subject Area and CASAS Level (cont’d)

Descriptor Statements

Descriptor Statements

Level A Reading Certificate

Level A Reading Certificate - reverse

 

Author: Sally Schroeder

Homepage: http://www.readiowa.org/

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