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PARCC Belief Statement • PARCC is based on the core belief that assessment should work as a tool for enhancing teaching and learning. (http://www.parcconline.org /about-parcc)

The PARCC Goals 1. Create high-quality assessments 2. Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students 3. Support educators in the classroom 4. Develop 21st century, technology-based assessments 5. Advance accountability at all levels 6. Build an assessment that is sustainable and affordable 3

Who’s PARCCing? • All students in Grades 3-11. • Formative Assessments for Grades K-2.

Or “Where 24 Becomes 9”

PLACES TO PARCC

COMPONENTS OF PARCC

PARCC Assessments

ELA/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3–11

Beginning of School Year

X

Flexible administration

Diagnostic Assessment

Mid-Year Assessment

End of School Year

PerformanceBased Assessment

End-of-Year Assessment

Speaking and Listening Assessment Key: Optional

8

Required

Summative Assessments

REQUIRED

Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) • Administered after approximately 75% of the school year. • The ELA/literacy PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text. • The mathematics PBA will focus on expressing mathematical reasoning and modeling realworld problems.

Grade 10 Prose Constructed Response—Sample #2

• Use what you have learned from reading “ Daedalus and Icarus ” by Ovid and “ To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph ” by Anne Sexton to write an essay that analyzes how Icarus’s experience of flying is portrayed differently in the two texts. • Develop your essay by providing textual evidence from both texts. Be sure to follow the conventions of standard English.

Type III: Tasks assessing modeling / applications - Mini-Golf Prices

• http://parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/HSAlg 1Math2MiniGolfPrices.pdf

End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) • Administered after approximately 90% of the school year. • The ELA/literacy EOY will focus on reading comprehension. • The mathematics EOY will call on students to demonstrate further conceptual understanding of the Major Content and Additional and Supporting Content of the grade/course.

Practice Tests • http://practice.parcc.testnav.com/#

Regular Administration of PARCC Computer-Based Testing • PBA - March 9, 2015 to April 3, 2015 • EOY - April 27, 2015 to May 22, 2015

Testing Time • PBA – 3 sessions of ELA/Literacy – 2 sessions of Math

• EOY – 2 sessions of ELA/Literacy – 2 sessions of Math

Time Comparison • PSAE took 8.5 hours over 2 days this year. • PARCC should take about 9 hours, spread over more days. • ISBE says they anticipate PARCC taking slightly longer than PSAE did. • Final times depend on the Field Test.

Speaking and Listening Assessment • 2015-2016 School Year • 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. • http://parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/Speaking AndListening_July2013Overview.pdf

Other Assessments

OPTIONAL

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. • http://parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/MidYe arJuly2013Overview_FINAL.pdf

Five Performance Levels • Level 1 – Did not demonstrate partial command • Level 2 – Partial Command • Level 3 – Moderate Command • Level 4 – Strong Command • Level 5 – Distinguished Command

For Departments Other Than Math

MATHEMATICS FOCUS

Standards for Mathematical Practice • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Standards for Mathematical Practice • Model with mathematics. • Use appropriate tools strategically. • Attend to precision.

Standards for Mathematical Practice • Look for and make use of structure. • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Example “Problem” • Estimating how much water and food is needed for emergency relief in a devastated city of 3 million people, and how it might be distributed.

Example “Problem” • Planning a table tennis tournament for 7 players at a club with 4 tables, where each player plays against each other player.

Example “Problem” • Analyzing stopping distance for a car.

Example “Problem” • Analyzing risk in situations such as extreme sports, pandemics, and terrorism.

Something for Everyone

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

For Departments Other Than English

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY

SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL

Key Ideas and Details: • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to important distinctions the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account. • Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms. • Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.

Craft and Structure: • Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 1112 texts and topics. • Analyze how the text structures information or ideas into categories or hierarchies, demonstrating understanding of the information or ideas. • Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, identifying important issues that remain unresolved.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: • Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem. • Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of information. • Synthesize information from a range of sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when possible.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

• By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently

HISTORY AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Key Ideas and Details: • Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole. • Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas. • Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Craft and Structure: • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including analyzing how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10). • Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured, including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole. • Evaluate authors' differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing the authors' claims, reasoning, and evidence.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: • Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. • Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information. • Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:

• By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

ELA Sample Items • http://parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCC ELASampleItemsOverviewPPTGrade11RST%20Set.pptx

But What About Science?

NEXT GEN SCIENCE STANDARDS

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Finalized in 2013. Adopted by Illinois in February 2014. Still waiting for final guidance from ISBE. Go into effect in 2016-2017.

RESOURCES

PARCC • http://www.parcconline.org/

Practice Tests • http://practice.parcc.testnav.com/#

Common Core State Standards • http://www.corestandards.org/read-thestandards/

Arizona Dept. of Ed • http://www.azed.gov/standardsdevelopment-assessment/parccassessment/parcc-in-the-classroom/

ISBE’s Fact Sheet (2013) • http://www.isbe.net/assessment/pdfs/2013/p arcc/asmt-admin-guidance0313.pdf

Wikipedia’s Entry on PARCC • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARCC

NGSS • http://www.nextgenscience.org/nextgeneration-science-standards