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| CAAP Modules | The Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency is a set of standardized tests developed to evaluate student’s achievement levels. The CAAP test helps your school evaluate the effectiveness of the education in the following modules:
 Reading
The reading module consists of 36 questions designed to conceptualize referring and reasoning abilities. Under the reading test, four prose passages from the content areas of prose fiction, humanities, social studies, and natural sciences are used to represent the levels of writing encountered in characteristic college curricula. Every passage then has nine multiple-choice questions.
Writing Skills
The writing skills module does not evaluate rote knowledge of spelling and vocabulary. It contains 72 items that determine students’ understanding of the conventions of standard written English in punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, strategy, organization, and style. This test has six prose passages and every one is followed by a set of 12 multiple-choice test items. Sentences or phrases are broken out from the passages and students are asked to correct the sentence if necessary.
Writing Essay
For the writing essay, two 20-minute writing tasks are defined by a short prompt that identifies an exact hypothetical situation and audience. The student is then instructed to take a position on the subject and to give details to the audience why the position taken is the better option. This approach is intended to test the student’s abilities in formulating a statement, testing that statement, organizing and connecting ideas, and noticeably expressing those ideas.
Mathematics
The mathematics module highlights quantitative reasoning sooner than formula memorization. It is a 35-item test with content areas of pre algebra, elementary algebra, intermediate algebra, coordinate geometry, college algebra, and trigonometry.
Science
The science module gives emphasis to reasoning skills in place of rote scientific knowledge. The 45 questions are drawn from the biological sciences (e.g., biology, botany, and zoology), chemistry, physics, and the physical sciences (e.g., geology, astronomy, and meteorology). There are eight passage sets together with a set of multi-choice questions.
Critical Thinking
The critical thinking test asks students to clarify, analyze, assess, and expand arguments. This module has four passages with a total of 32 items. Every passage makes use of several formats to present the arguments and is followed by a set of multiple-choice test items.
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