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CORE Background8 Districts:• Long Beach• Los Angeles• Fresno• Sanger• Clovis• Sacramento City• San Francisco• Oakland

Common Core Standards• Adopted in August 2010• Led by the Council of Chief State School

Officers and National Governors Association

• State directed initiative• Drafting process included teachers and

content experts from across the country• Focus on college and career readiness• Math and English Language Arts

English-Language ArtsStandards are:

(1) research and evidence based,

(2) aligned with college and work expectations,

(3) rigorous,

(4) internationally benchmarked, and

(5) intended to be a living work: as new and better evidence emerges, the Standards will be revised accordingly

A particular standard was included in the document only when the best available evidence indicated that its mastery was considered essential for college and career readiness in a twenty-first-century, globally competitive society.

ELA Standards Cont.• 4 Strands: Reading, Writing, Language,

Listening/Speaking• College and Career Readiness (CCR) standards for

12th grade were developed first as “anchor standards”

• “Anchor Standards” then serve as the basis for the development of specific grade level standards

Math Standards• built on progressions• narrative documents describing the progression

of a topic across a number of grade levels• informed both by research on children's cognitive

development and by the logical structure of mathematics

• the progressions were spliced together and then sliced into grade level standards

Math Standards Cont.• Standards for Mathematical Practice describe the

attributes of mathematically proficient students • As students move through the grade levels, the

math practices stay the same….much like the anchor standards for ELA

• The 8 Practices include both processes and proficiencies with longstanding importance in math education

SMARTER Balanced• Assessment system in use by 2014-2015• Summative: adaptive, benchmarked to

college and career readiness• Interim: flexible, teacher developed• Formative tools and practices: online

resources and modules• Question types will include selected

response, constructed response and performance tasks

Information Processing• Increasing in rigor

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PerformanceTask

• Essay, story, script• Display, models, design

• Oral presentation • Scoring Rubric

Cognitive Demand

Design Elements

Item C

Item B

Item A

Stimulus• Text• Graphs • Photos, media• Artistic Presentation• Etc.

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Mid

High

Smarter Balance Performance Task Specifications

Questions and Comments

Shannah Estep

Curriculum Integration Manager

California Office to Reform Education (CORE)

shannah@caedpartners.org