NYSTCE ELA (003) case studies
NYSTCE ELA (003) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The English Language Arts CST (003) is one of the Content Specialty Tests in the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) program, administered by Evaluation Systems, Pearson, for the New York State Education Department. Candidates typically take it to demonstrate subject-matter competence in English language arts as part of certification for teaching roles in New York State classrooms. The test is delivered as a computer-based test (CBT) and combines 90 selected-response items with 1 constructed-response item. Candidates receive 3 hours and 15 minutes of testing time within a 3 hours and 30 minutes total appointment time, which includes 15 minutes for the CBT tutorial and nondisclosure agreement. The NYSTCE ELA (003) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,133 words.
1Prioritizing Argument Writing After a Diagnostic
Alvarez teaches three sections of tenth-grade English at a comprehensive high school. Her department requires a four-week argument-writing unit anchored by a whole-class text, and the district interim assessment is in five weeks.
681 words, about 3 min2Redesigning a Socratic Seminar With Silent Students
Okafor's eleventh-grade class of 32 students has just finished a short story about a family returning to a flood-damaged home. In preparation for a Socratic seminar, students annotated copies.
620 words, about 3 min3Reviewing Vocabulary Items Before the Unit Test
Chen serves on a seventh-grade assessment committee. A colleague submitted three multiple-choice vocabulary items for a unit test.
646 words, about 3 min4Responding to Dialect in a Memoir
Delgado's tenth-grade memoir unit asks students to write about a moment that changed their thinking. One student, Jasmine, submits a 900-word memoir about her grandmother's church.
597 words, about 3 min5Reteaching Source Evaluation Before a Research Draft
Park's ninth-grade research unit requires students to write a 600-word explanation of a local environmental issue using three sources. In the first round, 22 of 30 students cited a commercial website with no author or date as their main source; 17 could not identify a page labeled 'sponsored content'; 12 chose the first Google result without reading past the headline.
589 words, about 3 min