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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 either the California Standards Tests with accommodations or modifications or the California Modified Assessment with accommodations. District STAR coordinators are responsible for ordering CAPA materials. See the California Department of Education's STAR CAPA blueprints or CAPA Web page for more information.

2009 Test Materials

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Sample CAPA Tasks

Sample CAPA tasks are from the 2008 training DVD. View video segments online at 2009 CAPA Train-the-Trainer Video Segments. Note: This link opens to a site external to startest.org.

Manipulatives are included with each task. Not all tasks require stimulus cards.

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