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California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA)

General Information

Background
The CAPA is given to students with significant cognitive disabilities whose disabilities prevent them from taking the California Standards Tests with accommodations or modifications or from taking the California Modified Assessment with accommodations. District STAR coordinators are responsible for ordering CAPA materials. See the CDE's STAR CAPA blueprints or CAPA Web page for more information.

CAPA Performance Levels

CAPA Performance Levels, including descriptions for the CAPA levels I–V, appear on page 2 of the CAPA Student Report.

2009 Test Materials

To be posted in winter 2009.
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