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CalSTAT Technical Assistance and Training

CalSTAT (California Services for Technical Assistance and Training) is a special project of the California Department of Education, Special Education Division, located at Napa County Office of Education. It is funded through the Special Education Division and the California State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG). The SPDG, a federal grant, supports and develops partnerships with schools and families by providing training, technical assistance and resources to both special education and general education.

Teacher Examination Regional Network (TERN) 2005 - 2006

Related to the certfication of teachers under the highly qualified requirement of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The Teacher Examination Regional Network (TERN) merged the pre-intern test preparation and resource development efforts of Ventura County Superintendent of Schools Office (VCSSO). The goal of this activity is to develop and implement training resources for pre-intern test preparation programs throughout the state to ensure consistent, affordable, and high-quality preparation, with a special focus on special education pre-interns.

For the development of resources, VCSSO took instructor resource guides they had developed for each area of the CSET Multiple Subjects Examination and developed suggested agendas and learning plans. The resource guides and learning plans were packaged together for use by trainers at other sites with the goal of replicating VCSSO's success with pre-intern test preparation.

In 2005-2006, VCSSO contracted with five county pre-intern programs to become regional leads and begin the development of a regional network for test preparation throughout the state.

2006 Test Administration at the Five County Pre-Intern Programs
  Statewide CSET Plus Participants CSET Plus Ventura CSET Plus Tulare CSET Plus Orange CSET Plus Imperial CSET Plus Sacramento
Subtest I (Language Arts; Social Science) 71%
n=14,639
91%
n=46
94%
n=31
80%
n=10
100%
n=5
no results no results
Subtest II (Science; Mathematics) 63%
n=16,908
84%
n=56
89%
n=35
67%
n=12
89%
n=9
no results no results
Subtest III (P.E.; Human Dev.; Arts) 74%
n=13,602
86%
n=36
92%
n=24
33%
n=3
89%
n=9
no results no results

These pass-rates are based on responses from 73% of the participants (65 out of 89 participants).

TERN Participant and Event Evaluation Information

2006 Test Preparation Participants
  Ventura County Tulare County Orange County Not Specified
Number of Participants 40 23 16 3
2006 CSET Plus Participants by Ethnicity
80 participants responded
Participant Ethnicity Number of Participants Percent
White/Caucasian 41 51%
Hispanic 31 39%
African American 4 5%
Asian 1 1%
Filipino 1 1%
Other/Multiple 2 2%

Event Evaluation

Knowledge Increase

At the end of the test preparation training, participants were asked to rate their degree of knowledge on the subject matter before and after receiving content training.

 


California Services for Technical Assistance and Training (CalSTAT)
A Special Project of the Napa County Office of Education| 5789 State Farm Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Fax: 707-586-2735 | email:info@calstat.org