CAASPP and ELPAC Interim Assessment Lookup Tool
The Interim Assessment Lookup Tool provides an overview of all available state-provided interim assessments, including details such as content alignment, total number of items, and number of items requiring hand scoring for each assessment.
The CAASPP and ELPAC interim assessments are optional assessments designed to support teaching and learning throughout the year. Local educational agencies have the flexibility to administer any interim assessment to any student, regardless of the student’s enrolled grade level.
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Available Interim Assessments
The Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for ELA are aligned with content in grades three through eight and high school (grades nine through twelve). There are three types of Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments:
- Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs) assess the full range of targets.
- Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) assess up to eight targets.
- Focused IABs assess one to three targets.
The Smarter Content Explorer provides further detail on Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for ELA, including information on claims, targets, and content specifications.
The Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for Mathematics are aligned with content in grades three through eight and high school (grades nine through twelve). There are three types of Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments:
- Interim Comprehensive Assessments (ICAs) assess the full range of targets.
- Interim Assessment Blocks (IABs) assess up to eight targets.
- Focused IABs assess one to three targets.
The Smarter Content Explorer provides further detail on Smarter Balanced Interim Assessments for Mathematics, including information on claims, targets, and content specifications.
The CAST Interim Assessments in grades three, four, and five each assess all three science domains (Earth and Space Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences). Middle school and high school each have three interim assessments that assess a single science domain. The CAST Item Specifications web page provides details on each assessed dimension of a California Next Generation Science Standards performance expectation.
Each CAST Interim Assessment consists of two segments: one discrete segment and one performance task (PT) segment. The PT consists of five to six items, including one constructed-response item worth two points that must be hand scored.
The ELPAC Interim Assessments are aligned to the 2012 California English Language Development Standards for kindergarten through grade twelve. There are separate assessments in each grade level or grade span for each language domain—Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.
More information about the standards measured in each domain can be found in the Definitions of Task Types for the ELPAC document.
Assessments At-a-Glance
The following tables list available ELA interim assessments by grade level.
The following tables list available mathematics interim assessments by grade level.
The following table lists available CAST Interim Assessments by grade levels and grade bands.
The following table lists available ELPAC Interim Assessments by grade levels and grade spans.
At-a-Glance
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Assessments By Grade
The following tables list, by grade, the content alignment, the total number of items, and the number of items that require hand scoring for each available ELA interim assessment.
The following tables list, by grade, the content alignment, the total number of items, and the number of items that require hand scoring for each available mathematics interim assessment.
The following tables list, by grade level or grade band, the number of items, the number of items that require hand scoring, and the content alignment for each CAST Interim Assessment.
The following tables list, by grade level or grade span, the content alignment, the total number of items, and the number of items that require hand scoring for each ELPAC Interim Assessment. Note that in the Primary Standard columns, “P” is an abbreviation for “parts” of the California English Language Development Standards.
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Assessment Available
Assessment available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span
Assessment Not Available
Assessment not available for indicated grade level, grade band, or grade span
New Assessments
Interim Assessments containing an asterisk (*) are newly added assessments for 2024-25
Acronyms and Initialisms
| Abbreviation | System |
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| CAASPP | California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress |
| CAST | California Science Test |
| ELA | English Language Arts/Literacy |
| ELPAC | English Language Proficiency Assessments for California |
| K | Kindergarten |