parcc & the common core
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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”. What is PARCC?. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
PARCC &
The Common CorePresented 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 Effectivene
ss
CCSS SC and SS
CCSS ELA and Math
What is PARCC?O Partnership for Assessment of Readiness
for College and CareerO 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 achievementO 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 practicesO 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…O Determine what the text says explicitlyO Draw inferencesO Determine central idea or themeO Analyze how and why individuals and ideas
develop over the course of the textO Interpret words and phrasesO Analyze structure of the textO Assess how point of view or purpose shapes a textO Integrate and evaluate content in diverse formatsO Analyze how two or more text interact and build
knowledgeO Read and comprehend complex text
If students are writing, are they…
O Writing argumentsO Writing informative or explanatory testsO Writing narrativesO Produce clear and coherent writingO Use technology to produce and publishO Conducting research to demonstrate
understandingO Gather information from multiple sourcesO Write routinely over extended time
frames
When students are using language, do they apply their
knowledge of…O Conventions of standard English
grammar and usageO Meanings of multiple meaning wordsO Word relationships and nuances in
word meaningsO General academic (tier II) and
domain specific words (tier III)
Looking for Focus and Coherence in MathematicsO Focus-necessary and sufficient time
to think, practice and integrate new ideas into knowledge structure
O Coherence-mathematical connections that “knit” topics together
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Mathematical Practices1. Make sense of problems and persevere
in solving them
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively 3. Construct viable arguments and critiqu
e the reasoning of others
4. Model with mathematics 5. Use appropriate tools strategically 6. Attend to precision 7. Look for and make use of structure 8. Look for and express regularity in repea
ted reasoning
Grouping the Mathematical Practice Standards
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
6. Attend to precision
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2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
4. Model with mathematics5. Use appropriate tools
strategically
7. Look for and make use of structure
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Reasoning and Explaining
Modeling and using tools
Seeing structure and generalizing
We know we are on our way when…
Students can
demonstrate the
CCSS
independently
and on demand
Goals of PARCCTo 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 and career ready.”
O Assess the full range of the Common Core State Standards, including standards that are difficult to measure.
O Measure the full range of student performance, including high and low performing students.
O Provide data during the academic year to inform instruction, interventions and professional development.
O Provide data for accountability, including measures of growth.
Key Shifts in PARCC Design as a Response to the Shift in the CCSS
O Complexity: The standards require regular practice with complex text and its academic language
O Evidence: The standards emphasize reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational
O 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 StudentsKey Shifts
PARCC Vocabulary Primer
O EOY- End of YearO PBA- Performance Based AssessmentO PLD-Performance Level DescriptorO 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 ResponseO EBSR-Evidence Based Selected ResponseO 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
proceduresO Type II tasks assess students’ ability to express
mathematical reasoningO 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 PARCCO Field test administration (March-June) 2014O Spring 2014
O Practice test availableO Standard-setting
O Summer 2014O Methodology for calculating scoresO 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 BlueprintO 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 DesignEnglish Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3-11
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End-of-Year Assessment
• Innovative, computer-based items
• Required
Performance-Based
Assessment (PBA)
• Extended tasks
• Applications of concepts and skills
• Required
Diagnostic Assessment
• Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD
• Non-summative
2 Optional Assessments/Flexible
Administration
Mid-Year Assessment
• Performance-based
• Emphasis on hard-to-measure standards
• Potentially summative
Speaking And Listening Assessment• Locally scored• Non-summative, required
Summative Assessment Components:
O Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) administered after approximately 75% of the school yearO ELA PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing
textO 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 comprehensionO 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 performance-based items and tasks, with an emphasis on hard-to-measure 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.orgO Review materials in the “shared
drive”O Checkout the Accommodations
ManualO Visit NJ Department of Education
website O Understand types of questionsO Evaluate released questions and
rubricsO Shift instruction
What do you know?
Value Line: What do you know about PARCC?