CASAS Training Documents
The links below lead to all of the documents needed for a CASAS training.  These documents should be used within a local program, where the local trainer has been trained by a state-level CASAS trainer.

CASAS Handbook
The CASAS Handbook for ABE Teachers provides new teachers with the instructions and guidelines they need to properly administer the CASAS assessments and thereby fulfill program, state and federal accountability requirements.  The handbook also gives some basic tools to maximize instruction based on information gained through CASAS testing and demographic data collection.  It also functions as a reference guide for more experienced teachers.


All of the following links are to documents that can be found on the CASAS website (
www.casas.org). They are referred to in the above Handbook and can be used during a training.

CASAS Skill Level Descriptors for ESL

CASAS Skill Level Descriptors for ABE

Suggested Next Test - Form 80

Suggested Next Test - Life and Work Reading

Suggested Next Test - Life and Work Listening

CASAS Competencies

CASAS Content Standards - Reading

CASAS Content Standards - Listening

Basic Skills Content Standards by Test Item Correlations (Scroll down)

Life and Work Reading Sample Test Items

Life and Work Listening Sample Test Items

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