CAASPP System Release Dates for 2018-19
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Dear LEA CAASPP Coordinator:
Components of the CAASPP System are released at different times throughout the year. As you set up your local educational agency’s (LEA’s) test administration window and finalize your planning for another successful administration, please keep the following dates in mind:
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Date |
Release Milestone |
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September 4, 2018 |
· Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments will be available. |
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September 17, 2018 |
· The California Spanish Assessment (CSA) field test will be available. (Note that the window for the field test closes on October 12, 2018.) |
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November 5, 2018 |
· The California Alternate Assessment (CAA) for Science embedded performance task (PT) training test that shows the new online format of this assessment will be available. · The Content of Assessment information for all the 2018–19 embedded PTs that are available in January 2019 will be available. |
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November 5, 2018 |
· The California Science Test (CAST) training tests will be updated. · New CAST practice tests for each grade assessed will be available. (Note that braille practice tests will be available in January 2019.) |
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November 5, 2018 |
· The online CSA training test will be updated. |
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January 8, 2019 |
· Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments for English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics will be available. |
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January 8, 2019 |
· The CAST will be available. (Note that the braille assessment will be available in April 2019.) · The CAAs for ELA and mathematics and the CAA for Science field test will be available. |
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January 8, 2019 |
· CAAs for ELA and mathematics and CAA for Science Directions for Administration (DFA) PDF documents will be available for download from the Test Operations Management System (TOMS). · The CAAs for English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics practice tests will be updated. |
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January 8, 2019 |
· The CSA practice test—one test per grades three through eight and high school—will be available. |
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January 2019 |
· The new CAST braille practice tests for each grade assessed will be available. |
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April 1, 2019 |
· The CSA operational assessment will be available. |
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April 2019 |
· The CAST braille form will be available. |
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September 2019 |
· The CAA for Science 2019–20 embedded PTs will be available for administration. |
Questions regarding CAASPP should be directed to CalTAC by phone at 800-955-2954 or by email at
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