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    The CASAS Life & Work Series assesses reading and listening skills through multiple choice questions about short passages, graphs, pictures and dialogues. It is used to place students into literacy levels and monitor their progress. The test takes about an hour and is scored automatically or manually. Scores are reported using scaled scores and competency rubrics to identify student strengths and weaknesses. Research shows the CASAS has high reliability through various measures and validity through linking scores to other criteria and content. Descriptive statistics are provided for reading and listening forms.

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    The CASAS Life & Work Series assesses reading and listening skills through multiple choice questions about short passages, graphs, pictures and dialogues. It is used to place students into literacy levels and monitor their progress. The test takes about an hour and is scored automatically or manually. Scores are reported using scaled scores and competency rubrics to identify student strengths and weaknesses. Research shows the CASAS has high reliability through various measures and validity through linking scores to other criteria and content. Descriptive statistics are provided for reading and listening forms.

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    The CASAS Life & Work Series assesses reading and listening skills through multiple choice questions about short passages, graphs, pictures and dialogues. It is used to place students into literacy levels and monitor their progress. The test takes about an hour and is scored automatically or manually. Scores are reported using scaled scores and competency rubrics to identify student strengths and weaknesses. Research shows the CASAS has high reliability through various measures and validity through linking scores to other criteria and content. Descriptive statistics are provided for reading and listening forms.

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    The CASAS Life & Work Series assesses reading and listening skills through multiple choice questions about short passages, graphs, pictures and dialogues. It is used to place students into literacy levels and monitor their progress. The test takes about an hour and is scored automatically or manually. Scores are reported using scaled scores and competency rubrics to identify student strengths and weaknesses. Research shows the CASAS has high reliability through various measures and validity through linking scores to other criteria and content. Descriptive statistics are provided for reading and listening forms.

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    Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System (CASAS) Life & Work Series Reading & Listening

    Floyd, Kurdi, & Modica

    Description:

    Test Purpose

    Standardized - Criterion-Referenced - Discrete-Point Formative & Summative - Objective - Indirect Can be used as: Placement - Progress - Achievement Test Test-Takers Include:
    English as a Second Language English Language Learners Vocational ESL Adult Basic Education Adult Secondary Education General Education Development

    Assesses:
    Reading & Listening Skills

    Uses:
    For teachers/administrators to identify the literacy needs preand post-instruction of learners. Monitoring the student progress throughout literacy levels. Can be used for course placement into a specific level or baseline for benchmarking

    Description:

    Test Content

    CASAS assessments consist of a pre-test, course instruction and post-test No strict timing, but about an hour for each assessment Test can be paper/pencil or computer based Selected response items are multiple choice On Reading tests, test takers read short passages, graphs, maps, charts, signs, pictures etc. and answer multiple choice questions On Listening tests, test takers listen to a short dialogue or discussion and might see multiple pictures that corresdpond to multiple choice answers

    Description: Scoring/Rating Procedure


    How is the test scored?
    eTests are scored via computer Paper-and-pencil tests scored manually

    What rating procedure takes place?


    The number of correct items is converted to a scaled score which determines placement.

    Reporting/Interpreting results:
    Teachers/administrators have the option to use TOPSpro assessment software that tracks student progress over the course and throughout their level progression. Item tasks assess certain competency abilities and there is a scoring rubric that shows strengths and weaknesses of these competencies of the learner. With eTests, immediate feedback to learner and teacher/administrator is given pertaining to level and/or placement. Manual scoring immediate for T/A, & they report results to student.

    Life & Work Reading Form 83


    -obtained from Olsen, 2011

    Evaluation:

    Reliability Evidence

    Test administration reliability

    Parallel forms reliability

    Internal consistency reliability (KR-20)

    Descriptive statistics for each series are presented Reading Life Skills

    Form # 27 28 31 32 32X 33 34 34 X 35 36 37 38

    N 18,369 12,264 28,996 17,259 2,447 29,500 27,673 27,721 27,605 21,101 7,363 4,876

    # of Items 30 30 24 24 27 32 32 35 38 38 40 40

    Mean Raw Score 23.38 24.51 16.96 15.23 15.84 18.68 19.78 22.22 20.93 21.05 17.22 18.52

    Standard Deviation 6.93 6.28 6.20 6.49 6.86 8.04 7.70 7.05 8.11 7.74 9.06 9.19

    Mean P-Value .779 .817 .706 .635 .587 .584 .618 .635 .551 .554 .431 .463

    Mean Point Biserial .850 .875 .598 .594 .534 .535 .519 .614 .458 .441 .466 .474

    KR-20 .931 .925 .919 .918 .902 .918 .911 .885 .897 .886 .908 .912

    Note: These numbers were run based on data from 1996 through 2000. The initial item analyses were run for all items with sample sizes larger than 300

    Descriptive Statistics for the Life Skills Reading Series

    Descriptive statistics for each series are presented-Listening Life Skills


    # of Items 34 34 30 30 25 25 Raw Score Mean 19.99 20.78 16.69 16.44 13.18 13.68 Standard Deviation 8.80 8.16 7.26 6.66 5.76 5.52 Mean PValue .588 .611 .556 .548 .527 .547 Mean Point Biserial .544 .519 .501 .458 .474 .453

    Form # 51 52 53 54 55 56

    N 8,915 5,716 5,655 4,324 3,273 2,616

    KR-20 .927 .916 .896 .870 .855 .838

    Note: The 51L and 52L tests appear in both the ECS and Life Skills series * Note: These numbers were run based on data from 1996 through 2000. Initial item analyses were run for all items with sample sizes larger than 300

    Evaluation:

    Validity Evidence

    Criterion-related validity

    Construct validity

    Content-related validity

    Critique
    All discuss our critiques

    Sample Test Item: LWS Reading Skills

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