NJ Educator Leader Cadre’ PARCC ConferenceJune 6, 2014

❖ What level are you most affiliated with?

➢ Elementary School

➢ Middle School

➢ High School

❖ What content area are you most affiliated with?

➢ Math/Science

➢ ELA/Social Studies

➢ Fine Arts

➢ Performing Arts

➢ Applied Technologies

➢ Business

➢ Physical Education

❖ How familiar are you with the resources that are currently available?

➢ Not Familiar (What’s PARCC?)

➢ Somewhat Familiar (I’m a novice)

➢ Very Familiar (I could be working for them)

A little Formative Assessment...

• Looking at how PARCC Assessments are connected to Teacher Eval - and Grad Assessment

• News From PARCC - National Picture • Building a Common Language - Working across

states and sharing information• Being a PARCC and CCSS Storyteller

Presentation Topics

The PARCC Consortium

• Led by member state Chief State School Officers with significant support from SEA and LEA staff

• PARCC, Inc., Project Management Partner

Determine whether students are college- and career- ready or “on track”

Provide tools to assess student learning and support instruction during the

school year

Generate data, including growth metrics, for accountability uses

Report comparable data across schools, districts and member states

Priorities

Use technology to create efficiencies

and engage students in the testing process

Develop tests worth taking

Texts worth readingEssays worth writing

Problems worth solvingAccessible to all students

Goals …

Report resultsworth using

ValidReliable Timely

Actionable

Show me the EVIDENCE

Think of examples of why EVIDENCE is such a relevant word in education today.

Evidence Centered Design can inform a deliberate and systematic

approach to instruction that will help to ensure daily classroom work leads to all students meeting Ohio's

New Learning Standards.

Evidence-Centered Design (ECD) in the Classroom - Start with the end in mind.

Learning Targets/Objectives

Design begins with the inferences (claims) we want to make about students—should be connected clearly to Ohio's New Learning Standards - What should students be able to DO or KNOW?

Classroom Assessments Formative/Summative

In order to support claims, we must gather evidence----what can teachers point to, underline or highlight to show that students are making progress toward doing what we claim they can do?

Classroom Activities

Classroom activities (tasks) are designed to elicit specific evidence from students in support of claims.

PARCC is using ECD to create the gr 3-11 assessments.

How Does it All Connect for Student Achievement?

Comparison of PARCC OH/NJ

Graduation Requirements● Pathway 1 - passing

scores on 7 EOC exams including Alg 1, Geometry, ELA 1 and ELA 2

● Pathway 2 - remediation free score on ACT or SAT as a Junior or Senior

● Pathway 3 - CTE EOC exams, professional lisc. exams.

● NOTE: Equivalent credit given for AP, IB coruses.

Surveys, Reflection or Peer Feedback

StudentGrowthMeasures

Teacher PerformanceOn ProfessionalStandards

Comparison of PARCC OH/NJ

Tested

Non-Tested

As of now, the NJDOE has not decided what (if any) PARCC Assessments will be used towards a graduation requirement.

Design of the Assessment System

Formative ToolsFor use during the school year 2015-2016

• Grades 2-8• Reading, Writing, Math• Computer adaptive• Designed to pinpoint students’

learning needs

Diagnostic Assessments Mid-Year/Interim Assessments• Grades 3-11• ELA/Literacy and Math• Computer- and paper-based• Built from released PBA tasks• Can be used for assessment at

individual, classroom, school levels

K-1 Tasks Speaking & Listening Tools• Grades K-1• Reading and math• Checklists, running records,

performance tasks

• Grades 3-12 • Performance-based activities• Spontaneous oral response to oral

prompt; share findings of research in an oral presentation

Summative AssessmentsMeasure and report achievement and growth

ELA/LiteracyWriting essays drawing evidence from sources, including multi-media, some comprehensionMathSolving multi-step problems that require reasoning and address real world situationsCOMBINATION Human/Machine Scored

ELA/LiteracyDemonstrating comprehension of literary and informational textsMathDemonstrating understanding of concepts and procedures and carrying out short applications

MOSTLY MACHINE SCORABLE

Performance-Based Component(PBA)

End-of-Year Component(EOY)

Overall Score = Combination of PBA + EOY

PARCC’s Accessibility Features

Accessibility Features for All

Students

Accessibility Features

Identified in advance

Accommodations

Selected features

• Highlighter• Answer masking• Line reader

• Color contrast• Math text-to-

speech

• ELA text-to-speech• Scribe • Extended time

IEPs and 504s

Personal Needs Plan

• The goal is to return results of the summative assessments prior to the end of the school year

• Standard setting will occur in Summer 2015, with year 1 results reported in September

Reporting Schedule

• PARCC will report results of summative assessments using 5 performance levels

• Allows for finer classifications of student performance and supports reporting of improvement and growth

• Performance level descriptors at www.parcconline.org/plds

• Standard setting event will occur in summer 2015

• K-12 and HE educators will serve on standard-setting panels

Performance Levels

Claim Sub-Claim Performance Level Scale Score Sub-Score

ELA/L

X X

Reading X

ReadingLiterary Text

X

Reading Informational Text

X

Vocabulary X

Writing X

Written Expression X

Knowledge of Conventions

X

English Language Arts & LiteracyClaims and Reporting Metrics

Understanding the Claims

Claim Sub-Claim Performance Level Scale Score Sub-Score

Math X X

Major Content X

Additional & Supporting Content

X

Expressing Mathematical Reasoning

X

Modeling and Applications

X

MathematicsClaims and Reporting Metrics

PARCC Toolkit for Assessment Literacy

Evidence Tables What students sound like, write like, do math like, read like - when they are doing/knowing what is detailed in the standards.

Performance Level Descriptors Rubric explaining specific evidence to look for in student responses to assessment items by score category.

PARCC Blueprints Assessment plan details - what standards will be assessed on PBA, EOY. Related to Evidence Tables

PARCC Tutorials Specific directions/practice on the Pearson TestNav 8 platform.

PARCC Practice Tests - scoring guide and standards alignment

ELA PBA and Math EOY Spring 2014ELA EOY and Math PBA Fall 2014

Schools in 14 States & DC Participated in the Field Tests

● Over 1 million students are participating

● Nearly 16,000 schools● 1-3 grades per school, 2

classrooms per grade● 10,000 items covering 21

different tests.● 75% was online● 25% was paper/pencil

In Ohio:Schools: 950Districts: 430Students: 172,753

In NJ (Approximately 75% Field Tested):Schools: 1276Districts: 445Students: 10,000+ students

TechnologyNumber and Types of Devices

• Rule of thumb: In a school with 3 tested grades, at least one computer for every 2 students in the largest tested grade

• Desktop, laptop, netbook, and thin client/VDI computers (Windows, Mac, Chromebook), and tablets

• All devices must meet the established hardware, operating system, and networking specifications http://www.parcconline.org/technology

• Technology purchases should consider instructional needs, not only assessment

Study Brief Description Participating States

1. Mode Comparability Can paper- and computer-based assessments be reported on the same scale?

ALL

2. Device Comparability Are assessment results of tablet and desktop/laptop administrations comparable?

MA, AR, CO

3. Quality of Items and Tasks Do the items measure what was intended to be measured? Do any items show bias? Was human scoring reliable?

ALL

4. Text-to-Speech Validity Does the text-to-speech accommodation provide desired differential boost to those who need it?

MD

5. High School Math Comparability

Can traditional and integrated EOC assessments be reported on the same scale?

ALL

6. Quality of Test Administration

Do test administrators understand administration protocols? Do students understand test directions?

Surveys in ALLSite observations in MD, TN, OH, NM, IL

7. Feasibility of International Benchmarking

What points on PARCC scale correspond to benchmarks from PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS?

ALL

8. Psychometric Studies Can assessment results be put on a vertical scale? What is the best way to combine results from the PBA and EOY?

ALL

Field Test Research Studies

Collaboration

● PARCC ELCs working together to build new assessments

● Educators sharing lesson ideas○ across the hall○ across districts○ across states

● Resources like the EQuIP Rubrics and Achievethecore.org site

2012-2014

● Provide feedback on test development tools

● Build understanding of:o What is PARCC?o Goals of PARCCo PARCC & CCSSo Changing the way educators

view assessmento Preparing for the technology of

PARCC & CCSS● Collaborate with other educators on

how to make instructional shifts● Use PARCC practice/sample items

and tutorials to gain a better understanding of how to assess the new standards in ELA/Math

Shifting From Aligning To Implementing

2014-2015

● Rethinking our instructional time during testing windows - o project based learningo collaborative learning

● Rethinking the way we assess learning o Assessment is a tool for

gathering evidence of learning

o formative vs summative assessment

● 20% project - applying skills/learning to real world, authentic tasks

Key Messages and Storytelling

● Tests meant to be a part of instruction, not a separate, unrelated event

● Tests that are aligned to standards - and will match instruction aligned to standards

● Valid and reliable - making a distinction● Tests that are being developed by educators.

Educators will continue to have oversight of the process.

● Showing is more powerful than telling

Thank You!Char.shryock@bayschoolsohio.org @edtechgirl

prafalowski@spboe.orgPlease visit PARCC online at: www.parcconline.org

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