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Action Strategies: IAB/FIABs → Instruction

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Action Strategies: IAB/FIABs → Instruction

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Students have taken an IAB/FIAB and you've looked at the results ... now what? There are many ways teachers can use the results and the items to impact instruction!

Find suggestions + a list of all available IABs/FIABs for your content area and grade here.

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ELA IABs and FIABs

MATH IABs and FIABs

Interim Assessments Overview

CERS SBAC Data Learning Videos

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Access IAB/FIAB results in CA Educator Reporting System (CERS) on the CAASPP website.

Three Ways to View and Analyze IAB and FIAB Data in CERS

Here's videos on accessing CERS and viewing and analyzing results.

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SEARCH & PRINT ITEMS from Current IABs & FIABs

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SEARCH & PRINT ITEMS from Current IABs & FIABs

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Interim Assessment Item Portal allows you to SEARCH and PRINT (with answer keys) IAB and FIAB items. Definitely a go-to resource!

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides a broad overview of each IAB/FIAB, with detail like aligned SBAC claims and targets and number of items (including those requiring hand scoring). Here's a how-to/help video.

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of all available state-provided interim assessments, including details such as content alignment, total number of items, and number of items requiring hand scoring for each assessment.

The CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments are optional assessments designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year. Local educational agencies have the flexibility to administer any interim assessment to any student, regardless of the student's enrolled grade level.

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Use the following filters to refine the interim assessments that appear on the page.

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Assessment Available

Assessment available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span

Assessment Not Available

Assessment not available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span

Acronyms and Initialisms

Abbreviation

System

CAASPP

California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

CAST

California Science Test

ELA

English language arts/literacy

ELPAC

English Language Proficiency Assessments for California

K

kindergarten

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of all available state-provided interim assessments, including details such as content alignment, total number of items, and number of items requiring hand scoring for each assessment. The CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments are optional assessments designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year.

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CUSD students in grades 5, 8, and 11 take the California Science Test.

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The Relationship Among Claims, Targets, & Standards

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The Relationship Among Claims, Targets, & Standards

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Understanding the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment

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These documents highlight the standards teachers should place greater instructional emphasis on.

ELA K-8

MATH K-2, 3-5, 6-8

HS Math 1, Math 2, Math 3, 1-3

CUSD Pacing Calendars & Additional Supporting Docs

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CAST Blueprints, IABs, & Tools/Supports Graphic

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CAST Blueprints, IABs, & Tools/Supports Graphic

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CAST BLUEPRINTS

CAST IABs and IAB Organization

CAST Tools/Supports Graphic

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Smarter Content Explorer

Here's a 5-minute demo video of the Smarter Content Explorer to help you navigate its features. Here's a 3-minute video about 2021 updates they've made.

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of each CAST IAB, with detail like aligned NGSS performance expectations, total number of items, and about item types (discrete, performance task, and hand scoring).

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of all available state-provided interim assessments, including details such as content alignment, total number of items, and number of items requiring hand scoring for each assessment.

The CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments are optional assessments designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year. Local educational agencies have the flexibility to administer any interim assessment to any student, regardless of the student's enrolled grade level.

Filter By

Expand All Filters Collapse All Filters

Use the following filters to refine the interim assessments that appear on the page.

Legend

Assessment Available

Assessment available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span

Assessment Not Available

Assessment not available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span

Acronyms and Initialisms

Abbreviation

System

CAASPP

California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

CAST

California Science Test

ELA

English language arts/literacy

ELPAC

English Language Proficiency Assessments for California

K

kindergarten

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The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of all available state-provided interim assessments, including details such as content alignment, total number of items, and number of items requiring hand scoring for each assessment. The CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments are optional assessments designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year.

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Action Strategies: CAST IAB → Instruction

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Action Strategies: CAST IAB → Instruction

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Students have taken a CAST IAB and you've looked at the results ... now what? There are many ways teachers can use the results and the items to impact instruction!

Find suggestions + a list of all available CAST IABs for your grade/grade level span here.

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This site (login needed for full access) has educator-created lessons, activities, and strategies for standards-based instruction.

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Interim Connections Playlists (Tied to IABs)

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Interim Connections Playlists (Tied to IABs)

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Your CAASPP Tools for Teachers account gives you full access to Interim Connections Playlists, which use student performance on IABs to help identify instructional resources and next steps.

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Sample Items, Vocabulary, & DOK for SBAC Items

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Sample Items, Vocabulary, & DOK for SBAC Items

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SBAC SAMPLE ITEMS

12 SBAC ITEM TYPES

VOCABULARY: Don't skip page 2

ELA and MATH

DOK for SBAC ITEMS: What does DOK 1, 2, 3, & 4 look like on SBAC

These documents have detailed information about definitions and content related to Webb's DOK.

READING, MATH, SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Full Site

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Achieve the Core Math: Focus by Grade Level

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Achieve the Core Math: Focus by Grade Level

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This is an additional resource that shows where students should be spending the majority of their time.

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Achievethecore.org :: Instructional Content Nav - Mathematics: Focus by Grade Level

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The Common Core and other college- and career-ready (CCR) standards call for a greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, CCR standards require us to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the math classroom. We focus deeply on the major work of each grade so that students can gain strong foundations: solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the math classroom. The following documents illustrate these concepts using the Common Core State Standards, but Focus, Coherence, and Rigor are integral to all college- and career-ready standards.

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These documents are essential to linking SBAC claims to standards. They will drill down from the SBAC claim to the SBAC target to the Common Core content standards.

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Current Summative SBAC Blueprints for ELA & Math

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Current Summative SBAC Blueprints for ELA & Math

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*ADJUSTED* Summative for 2025-26: ELA and MATH and Full Site

Blueprints describe A) the content of CAASPP assessments, B) how that content will be assessed, C) the number of items for each SBAC claim and target in an assessment, and D) the depth of knowledge (DOK) of those items.

CAT is the computer adaptive test and PT is the performance task.

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Practice & Training Tests (With Performance Tasks)

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Practice & Training Tests (With Performance Tasks)

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Practice & Training INFO & LINKS

Practice Test SCORING GUIDES

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NGSS & CAST Lessons & Instructional Resources

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NGSS & CAST Lessons & Instructional Resources

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The SBAC Tools for Teachers site linked here (login needed for full access) has science instructional resources including lessons for grades K-12 that are NGSS-aligned and support CAST.

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These tasks are for a different assessment but still NGSS-aligned.

Grades 3-5 and Grades 6-8

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2013 CA Math Framework Chapters by Grade/Course

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2013 CA Math Framework Chapters by Grade/Course

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Speaking of math standards, the 2013 CA Mathematics Framework provides individual grade level and high school course chapters that are valuable for their insight into each grade/course's standards and teaching of those standards.

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CAST INTRO VIDEO

CAST ITEM SPECIFICATIONS

CAASPP CAST WEBSITE

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For certain items, a teacher can analyze whether several students selected a particular incorrect response, which may signal a common misconception about a topic or skill. This is available by selecting Key/Distractor Analysis from the dropdown as shown. Learn more from this video clip and this doc starting on page 23.

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Standards relate to one another, both within and across grades. The Coherence Map shows the connections between Common Core math content standards.

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The Coherence Map shows the connections between Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.

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SBAC Writing - Smarter Annotated Response Tool

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SBAC Writing - Smarter Annotated Response Tool

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Explore these resources to better understand how student writing is scored on SBAC and support writing instruction in your classroom. Browse a range of response types and interactive scoring rationales and rubrics.

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Writing tasks challenge students to demonstrate critical thinking skills. In each task, students examine sources on a topic and write a response based on a specific purpose described in state academic standards. Read more about “purpose” under Terms to Know.