CAA Summative Assessment Results for ELA, Math, and Science
CAA Summative Assessment Results in Group View
The California Alternate Assessment (CAA) summative assessments report one overall performance score per assessment. For ELA, math, and science the Student Score Distribution displays three achievement levels.
The group view provides an aggregate and an individual display of a selected assessment for an assigned group, a custom group, or a school. Refer to the View Student Assessment Results by School and Grade section or the View Student Group Assessment Results section for details.
Once a user selects a CAA summative assessment to display in the group view, the Results page displays as shown in figure 1.
Figure 1. Summative results panel for CAA Math Summative
The Results page for a summative assessment displays the following information and elements:
- Name and grade of the assessment
- Group Aggregate panel displays the aggregate data for the selected group of students
- Select a results view drop-down menu offers the following options for display results:
- [Results By Student]
- Results View table
- Display value as field: Contains toggles allowing a user to change the display to show the student score distribution in percentages of students or numbers of students in each level
- [Collapse All] button: Hides the Results by Student table for all the displayed assessments and toggles to an [Expand All] button, which displays the results again
- [Export CSV] button: Gives the option to download the results in CSV format
CAA Summative Group Results
For CAA Summative overall scores, the Student Score Distribution displays three achievement levels.
Figure 2. Overall Group Results for CAA
The Group Aggregate panel for CAA Overall Scores displays the following information and elements:
- Average Scale Score: Average scale score for the selected group of students and an error band based on the Standard Error of the Mean
- Number of student test results from which the average scale score and score distribution is calculated
- Student Score Distribution: Score distribution for the performance levels (CAA for ELA/Math) or achievement levels (CAA for Science) of the overall score
- [Show Results] button: Displays the Results View table for the displayed assessment and toggles to a [Hide Results] button that can hide the table
CAA Summative Results By Student
Student Overall Scores
The Results By Student table includes the following information for each student.
Figure 3. CAA Summative Results By Student Overall Scores table
Each student result in the Overall Score T able shows the following elements:
- Student: Student’s full name with a Context Menu three dots icon [] which provides access to additional student details (refer to Summative Student Options section)
- Date: Date the student completed the fourth embedded PT
- Session: Test session identifier (applicable to interim assessments only)
- Enrolled Grade: Student’s enrolled grade at the time of the assessment
- School: Student’s assigned school at the time of the assessment
- Status: The assessment status describes whether the administration condition (Manner of Administration) was Valid or Invalid. A blank Status field indicates a valid assessment status.
- Achievement Level: Student’s achievement level on the assessment:
- CAA ELA: Level 1 - Limited, Level 2 - Foundational, or Level 3 - Understanding
- CAA Math: Level 1 - Limited, Level 2 - Foundational, or Level 3 - Understanding
- CAA Science: Level 1 - Limited, Level 2 - Foundational, or Level 3 - Understanding
- Scale Score/Error Band: Student’s scale score