Certification Glossary

The Single Subject Assessments for Teaching (SSAT) is a series of standardized multiple choice and constructed response examinations by which single subject credential candidates may demonstrate their subject matter competency as an alternative to completion of a university-based undergraduate subject matter program. The SSAT exams were replaced by the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) in a series of three phases, beginning in June 2003 with the last administration of the third phase in May 2005. See Coded Correspondence 02-0008 [PDF]. Those test scores had to be used towards California certification within five years of the test date. Therefore, SSAT exam scores are no longer acceptable towards initial California certification.