CMT-CAPT Skills Checklist Technical Manual. - NAAC

I. Relating CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist Items to the Language Arts FrameworkRelating specific Expected Performance statements on the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist to theConnecticut Language Arts Curriculum Framework is facilitated by the use of an alpha-numeric“link” provided at the end of each Expected Performance statement. These links direct the readerto a specific Expected Performance statement on the Language Arts scope and sequence tableentitled, GRADE 3 TO 10 LANGUAGE ARTS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ANDEXPECTED PERFORMANCES BY GRADE BY CONTENT STANDARD INCLUDED INTHE CMT/CAPT SKILLS CHECKLIST: SECOND GENERATION in Appendix H of thisdocument. This scope and sequence table presents a summary of the Connecticut Language ArtsCurriculum Framework in tabular form.To illustrate: the link provided on the first test item on the Grade 10 Language Arts Section of theChecklist is “RR 9/10-1” (this Test Item is found on Page 17 of 32 on the Grade 10 Checklist).This means that the Expected Performance statement on which this item is based relates toReading and Responding (“RR”), is found in the 10 th grade Language Arts Framework (the “10”)and is the first Expected Performance statement in this area (the “1”). This ExpectedPerformance statement is the first item in the Column labeled “Grade 9-12” on the Language Artsscope and sequence table in Appendix P.Relating CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist assessment items to the Connecticut CurriculumFramework in the area of Language Arts is somewhat complicated by the fact that the State Boardof Education approved a revised Language Arts Framework in February, 2006, after the secondgeneration of the CMT/CAPT Skills Checklist was completed. The second generation of theChecklist was developed utilizing the draft 2005 Language Arts Framework. To connectChecklist items to the approved 2006 Framework, a second link has been provided at the end ofeach Expected Performance statement on the Language Arts scope and sequence table inAppendix P which was discussed in the previous paragraph. To illustrate, the ExpectedPerformance item that is identified as item RR 9/10-1 (as used in the example above) on theLanguage Arts scope and sequence table reads as follows:112