Transcript PARCC & The Common Core

PARCC
&
The Common Core
Presented by Robin Knutelsky
ELC Member for the State of New Jersey
Jefferson Township Schools
What do you know?
Value Line: What do you know about PARCC?
At the “Core”
PARCC
Teacher
Effectiveness
CCSS SC and
SS
CCSS ELA and
Math
What is PARCC?
O Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for
College and Career
O Assessments will measure whether students
are on track (College and Career Ready) and
if instructional programs and practices are
effective
O College and career readiness determination
will signal to postsecondary institutions that
student are prepared to do first-year college
work without remediation
Common Core State Standards
O PARCC will measure standards achievement
O Shifts in Instruction
O What students learn and can do on demand and
independently
O Text based questions (rely on textual
understanding)
O Text based responses that are grounded in
evidence
O Mathematical practices
O Think about what we should be seeing in the
classroom as evidence of the CCSS
If students are reading text or talking
about text, are they able to…
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Determine what the text says explicitly
Draw inferences
Determine central idea or theme
Analyze how and why individuals and ideas develop
over the course of the text
Interpret words and phrases
Analyze structure of the text
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes a text
Integrate and evaluate content in diverse formats
Analyze how two or more text interact and build
knowledge
Read and comprehend complex text
If students are writing, are
they…
O Writing arguments
O Writing informative or explanatory tests
O Writing narratives
O Produce clear and coherent writing
O Use technology to produce and publish
O Conducting research to demonstrate
understanding
O Gather information from multiple sources
O Write routinely over extended time frames
When students are using language, do
they apply their knowledge of…
O Conventions of standard English grammar
and usage
O Meanings of multiple meaning words
O Word relationships and nuances in word
meanings
O General academic (tier II) and domain
specific words (tier III)
Looking for Focus and
Coherence in Mathematics
O Focus-necessary and sufficient time to
think, practice and integrate new ideas into
knowledge structure
O Coherence-mathematical connections that
“knit” topics together
Mathematical Practices
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Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them
Reason abstractly and quantitatively
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others
Model with mathematics
Use appropriate tools strategically
Attend to precision
Look for and make use of structure
Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning
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1. Make sense of problems and persevere
in solving them
6. Attend to precision
Problem solving with precision
Grouping the Mathematical Practice Standards
2. Reason abstractly and
quantitatively
3. Construct viable
arguments and critique
the reasoning of others
Reasoning and
Explaining
4. Model with mathematics
5. Use appropriate tools
strategically
Modeling and
using tools
7. Look for and make use
of structure
8. Look for and express
regularity in repeated
reasoning
Seeing structure
and
generalizing
We know we are on our way
when…
Goals of PARCC
To dramatically increase the rates at which students graduate from
high school prepared for success in college and the workplace.
O Determine whether students are “on-track” to be “college
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and career ready.”
Assess the full range of the Common Core State Standards,
including standards that are difficult to measure.
Measure the full range of student performance, including
high and low performing students.
Provide data during the academic year to inform
instruction, interventions and professional development.
Provide data for accountability, including measures of
growth.
Key Shifts in PARCC Design as a
Response to the Shift in the CCSS
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Complexity: The standards require regular practice
with complex text and its academic language
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Evidence: The standards emphasize reading and
writing grounded in evidence from text, both literary
and informational
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Knowledge: The standards require building knowledge
through content rich non-fiction, informational text
and literature
The CCSS Shifts Build Toward College
and Career Readiness for All Students
Key Shifts
PARCC Vocabulary Primer
O EOY- End of Year
O PBA- Performance Based Assessment
O PLD-Performance Level Descriptor
O Evidence Table-Claims, standards and evidences of
what students will be able to demonstrate,
independently and on demand, that will be
assessed
O PCR-Prose Constructed Response
O EBSR-Evidence Based Selected Response
O TECR-Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response
Vocabulary Primer Part II
O ELA Task-a coherent collection of assessment
items. Tasks are cohesive because they are
connected to a specific reading passage or set of
passages that includes EBSR, TECR and/or PCR
O Math Task- an operational item that may either
have a single prompt or multiple prompts. The
PARCC math tests contain three types of tasks:
O Type I tasks assess concepts, skills and
procedures
O Type II tasks assess students’ ability to express
mathematical reasoning
O Type III tasks assess modeling and applications
Technology-Enhanced
Constructed Response (TECR)
Uses technology to capture student
comprehension of texts in authentic
ways:
O Drag and drop
O Cut and paste
O Shade text
O Move items
Timeline PARCC
O Field test administration (March-June) 2014
O Spring 2014
O Practice test available
O Standard-setting
O Summer 2014
O Methodology for calculating scores
O Final technology specifications released
O Winter 2014-1st Operational Assessment block schedule
administration PBA and EOY
O Spring 2015- 1st Operational Assessment PBA and EOY
O Summer 2015 –Cut scores and College and Career
Readiness Determination
Testing Blueprint
O The 3-11 PARCC assessments will be delivered at
each grade level and will be based directly on the
Common Core State Standards
O The PARCC design includes four components
O Two required summative (PBA and EOY)
O Two optional non-summative - to provide educators
with timely feedback to inform instruction and
provide multiple measures of student achievement
across the school year (Baseline and MY)
O More specifics in the district shared drive for
“PARCC”
Assessment Design
English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3-11
2 Optional Assessments/Flexible
Administration
Diagnostic
Assessment
• Early indicator of
student knowledge
and skills to inform
instruction,
supports, and PD
• Non-summative
Mid-Year
Assessment
• Performancebased
• Emphasis on
hard-to-measure
standards
• Potentially
summative
PerformanceBased
Assessment
(PBA)
• Extended
tasks
• Applications of
concepts and
skills
• Required
End-of-Year
Assessment
• Innovative,
computer-based
items
• Required
Speaking And Listening Assessment
• Locally scored
• Non-summative, required
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Summative Assessment
Components:
O Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) administered after
approximately 75% of the school year
O ELA PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing
text
O Math PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and
understandings to solve multi-step problems requiring
abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic
use of tools
O End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) administered after
approximately 90% of the school year
O ELA EOY will focus on reading comprehension
O Math EOY will call on students to demonstrate further
conceptual understanding
Non-Summative
Assessment Components:
O Diagnostic Assessment designed to be an indicator of
student knowledge and skills so that instruction,
supports, and professional development can be tailored
to meet student needs.
O Mid-Year Assessment (MYA) comprised of performancebased items and tasks, with an emphasis on hard-tomeasure standards. After study, individual states may
consider including the MYA as a summative component.
O Speaking and Listening Assessment (ELA/literacy only)
designed to be an indicator of students’ ability to
communicate their own ideas, listen to and comprehend
the ideas of others, and to integrate and evaluate
information from multimedia sources.
Support and Guidance:
What can we be doing?
O Visit PARCConline.org
O Review materials in the “shared drive”
O Checkout the Accommodations Manual
O Visit NJ Department of Education website
O Understand types of questions
O Evaluate released questions and rubrics
O Shift instruction
What do you know?
Value Line: What do you know about PARCC?