CALP Test-Taking Language Strategies Flashcards
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How does CALP proficiency affect a student's ability to respond to open-ended test questions?
Answer: It enables students to produce well-organized academic written responses using appropriate register and discourse structure
CALP proficiency enables the academic register, discourse organization, and evidence integration required to produce high-scoring open-ended responses.
What does the test direction 'cite evidence from the text' require at a CALP level?
Answer: Selecting and integrating textually-based evidence using academic citation language to support an argument
Citing textual evidence requires CALP-level skills in selecting relevant evidence, integrating it grammatically, and using academic language to connect it to the argument.
What makes the word 'evaluate' a CALP-level test direction word rather than a BICS word?
Answer: It signals a higher-order task requiring critical judgment and academic justification, not just description or recall
'Evaluate' is a CALP-level direction word because it signals a Bloom's higher-order cognitive task requiring judgment, criteria, and academic justification.
On a CALP reading test, a question asks: 'What is the central claim of the passage?' How does academic language knowledge help?
Answer: It enables students to distinguish between main claims, supporting details, and peripheral information at an academic level
Identifying a central claim requires CALP-level academic literacy to differentiate primary argumentative positions from supporting or tangential details.
What CALP skill does 'extended response' writing on US standardized tests most directly assess?
Answer: Sustained academic language production including argument development, evidence use, and formal register
Extended response tasks directly assess CALP-level writing by requiring sustained academic language production with organized argument, integrated evidence, and formal register.
A student prepares for CALP-level standardized tests by practicing with past academic prompts and studying direction words. Why is this specifically a CALP strategy?
Answer: It develops familiarity with academic task language and discourse patterns that define CALP-level assessment demands
Practicing with academic prompts builds CALP proficiency by exposing students to the specific academic language, discourse structures, and task types used on standards-based assessments.