CSET English (Subtests I 105 & II 106) case studies
CSET English (Subtests I 105 & II 106) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
CSET English (Subtests I and II) is the subject-matter examination that California uses to verify English content knowledge for prospective secondary English teachers. It is typically taken by candidates in teacher-preparation programs, interns, and out-of-state teachers seeking a California credential; it is not a pedagogy test, so it assumes you can read and write about literature and language at a level beyond the introductory college course. The CSET English (Subtests I 105 & II 106) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,025 words.
1Claim, Evidence, and Warrant in a Seventh-Grade Op-Ed Quiz
At a Kâ8 school, the seventh-grade ELA team is reviewing results from a 10-item informational-reading quiz on a 1,050L op-ed about later school start times. Of 28 students, 24 correctly identified the author's claim, but only 11 could explain how the second paragraph's evidence supported it; 17 selected a restatement of the claim as 'evidence.' Nine students are ELs at WIDA levels 2â3.
660 words, about 3 min2Tone, Biography, and the Literary-Analysis Rubric
A 10th-grade team is designing a unit on a 14-line public-domain poem about a migrant worker's hands. One teacher wants students to read a short poet biography first and answer 'What did the poet feel?' Another wants a close-reading-only approach and a quiz asking students to choose the tone from four adjectives.
616 words, about 3 min3Spelling Inventory, Dialect, and Inflectional Endings
A fourth-grade teacher analyzes fall spelling-inventory results for 26 students. Eighteen spell walked as walkt, 15 spell jumped as jumpt, and 12 omit the plural -s on verbs such as 'she run.' Nine students are speakers of African American English (AAE); their writing shows 'she run' and 'he walk' consistently.
595 words, about 3 min4Argument Rubric, Rater Disagreement, and the Five-Paragraph Template
An 11th-grade team scores 32 timed argument essays with a district rubric weighted 40% conventions, 30% organization, 20% evidence, and 10% claim. Two raters disagree by more than one level on 11 of 32 essays.
580 words, about 3 min5Running Record, Dialect Miscue, and Comprehension Retell
A reading interventionist conducts a running record with a second grader, Mateo, on a 100-word narrative. Mateo makes 12 miscues: 8 are semantically acceptable substitutions (house for home), 3 are visually similar but meaning-changing (trail for trial), and 1 reflects his home dialect (he go for he goes).
574 words, about 3 min