How can teachers use the CAA system to help them identify curricular areas that a student is struggling with?
The CAA system will provide assessments at curricular strand/topic levels as well as at the overall course level. As such, a teacher could have students take the assessment for a specific strand/topic after having completed instruction for that unit. In this way, teachers will obtain information about how well the students attained the outcomes for that unit. At the end of a course, teachers can have students take the CAA for all units to determine which curricular areas students have mastered and which areas require further attention. Each item within the CAA item banks will be tied directly to the Alberta Programs of Study, and therefore will be associated with learning outcomes. Reports will provide information about which outcomes are associated with each item to which the student responded.
