CAASPP writing practice, built like the real test.
California’s CAASPP ELA test is the Smarter Balanced assessment, and its writing task is the performance task full write. Generate complete practice tasks with the exact criteria language from released practice tests, sources students can cite, the official rubric, and an exemplar. When students finish, EnlightenAI grades every response against the same official rubric in minutes.
Build a CAASPP performance task.
Pick a grade and writing purpose, choose a topic, and generate the full task: Part 1 scenario, two sources, and the Part 2 assignment with the official criteria checklist.
Choose a topic
Pick a curated topic or write your own. Opinion and argumentative topics are screened so both sides have citable evidence in the sources.
Why use generated CAASPP practice tests?
Released questions are the official gold standard, and every task here is anchored to them. But states release only a handful, and students eventually know them. Generated practice tests keep the exact format and scoring while giving students fresh practice questions all year.
Released performance tasks
- Official items, the anchor for everything on this page
- Limited number released each year
- Students may have seen them in class already
- Same prompts for every classroom
Generated practice tests
- Unlimited fresh prompts in the released format
- New practice questions on every click
- Same task structure, directions, and official rubric
- Built for ongoing exam prep, not one mock test
Scored with the official CAASPP and Smarter Balanced writing rubrics.
California scores the full write on the Smarter Balanced rubrics. Every descriptor, word for word, in the rubrics library, plus the consortium-wide details on the SBAC page.
CAASPP writing, answered.
What writing is on the CAASPP test?
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Where can I find official CAASPP practice tests?
Can AI grade CAASPP writing?
Is this CAASPP practice test generator free?
Why teachers use AI grading after CAASPP practice tests.
Generating the practice is the easy half. Grading thirty essays against the official rubric is where the weekend goes. EnlightenAI scores responses against the same rubric with per-criterion feedback, so practice becomes a feedback loop instead of a grading backlog.
0.77 QWK with teachers
In a study with DREAM Charter Schools, EnlightenAI plus a teacher scored 0.77 quadratic weighted kappa agreement, versus 0.52 for two teachers scoring independently.
70% exact score match
On the New York Regents dataset, EnlightenAI matched the training teacher’s exact score 70% of the time, and landed within one point the rest of the time.
From a real classroom
“Grading, once my most dreaded task, became faster and far more efficient. With EnlightenAI handling the bulk of the grading, I was free to focus on what mattered most: meaningful instruction with my students.” Melynda Brown, 6th Grade Humanities, Delta Schools
Grade CAASPP writing in EnlightenAI.
Train EnlightenAI on the official CAASPP rubric, then grade every practice response with per-criterion feedback. What used to take a weekend now takes a single class period.