CBEST/CSET testing..
 

"..The California Subject Examinations for Teachers® (CSET®) have been developed by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) for prospective teachers who choose to or are required to meet requirements for certification by taking examinations. The CTC contracted the Evaluation Systems group of Pearson to assist in the development, administration, and scoring of the CSET. The CSET program includes examinations designed to help candidates meet the following certification requirements.."



CSEST

"..The California Basic Educational Skills Test™ (CBEST®) was developed to meet requirements of laws relating to credentialing and employment. This test requirement in no way replaces any of the other requirements of subject matter knowledge, professional preparation, and practice teaching or field experience used in the issuance of credentials. The CBEST is designed to test basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills found to be important for the job of an educator; the test is not designed to measure the ability to teach those skills.

The California legislation that established the CBEST directed the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in conjunction with the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and an Advisory Board consisting of a majority of educators from California classrooms, to develop the CBEST. The development of the CBEST included definition of the primary skills to be tested; test-item writing and review for relevance to the specified skill areas; field testing; a validity study focusing on the accuracy, fairness, clarity, and job relevance of each test item; bias reviews; standard-setting studies; and determination of the passing scores. Since the initial development of the CBEST, new test items have been developed by contractors and all items have been reviewed by committees of California educators to verify that they meet test specifications adopted by the CTC and are free of bias.

The CBEST was selected by the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) in July 1984 to assess educators’ basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language..."




CBEST

CBEST is the easy one, CSET is equally easy in skill, but much more comprehensive and specific to my field, of history, and as I am an Ethiopianist historian, I have to brush up on my US history..

hoops to jump through are nice sometimes, because the results speak for themselves, you don't have to explain to some bureaucratic asshole your qualifications..
i'm scheduled for April 18 and May 16.. anyone else (or something similar?)

best of luck

Nah...I'm still in school.

Whatever.

My sister is preparing to become a high school math teacher. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to prep for the CSET math exams? I have not been able to find prep books or classes for this specific exam but I do studying CSET test prep books which are quite easy to understand. But I am going to need to study more from CSET test prep for math because I have seen the math question and never seen these types of question. So, if you have had experience with the exam, please tell me how you prepped for it. I appreciate any tips/strategies. Thanks

CSET test prep books