Stephanie Boyd

CMAS: Partnership for Assessment

of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)

English Language Arts and Mathematics

Assessment Grade Tentative Windows

CMAS and CoAlt: Science and Social Studies 12 11/03/14 to 11/21/14

PARCC Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) 3-8, High School 3/09/15 to 4/03/15

CMAS and CoAlt: Science and Social Studies

4 and 7 (Social Studies)

5 and 8 (Science)4/13/15 to 5/01/15

CoAlt: English language arts and math 3-11 4/13/15 to 5/15/15

PARCC End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) 3-8, High School 4/27/15 to 5/22/15

ACCESS for ELLs®Reading, Writing, Speaking

and ListeningK-12 1/12/15 to 2/13/15

CO ACTGrade 11

Initial Test DateTues., April 28, 2015

Make-up Test DateTues., May 12, 2015

2014-2015 Assessment Calendar

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Acronym Name

CBT Computer Based Test

ELA (ELA/L)English Language Arts (English Language Arts/Literacy)

EOY End of Year

LEA Local Education Agency (District)

PARCCPartnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

PBA Performance Based Assessment

PBT Paper Based Test

Acronyms

Administration planned for the spring of 2015 The assessments have two components:

Performance-based assessment administered 75% of the way through the school year

End-of-year assessment administered 90% of the way through the year

Grades included: English language arts: 3-11 Math: 3-8, with 3 assessments in high school

PARCC-Developed English Language Arts & Math

Assessments

PARCC Assessment Design

End-of-Year Assessment

•Innovative, computer-based items

Performance-Based

Assessment•Extended tasks•Applications of concepts and skills

75% of the year 90% of the year

Component -Content Area

# of Sessions

Task Type Task Description

Performance-Based Assessment: English Language Arts

3 Research simulationLiterary analysisNarrative

For each task, students will read one or more texts, answer several short vocabulary questions, and write an essay that requires them to draw evidence from the text(s)

Performance-Based Assessment: Math

2 Short and extended-response questions

Questions focus on conceptual knowledge and skills, and the mathematical practices of reasoning and modeling

End-of-Year Assessment: English Language Arts

2 4-5 literary and informational texts

Short-answer and vocabulary questions will be associated with each text

End-of-Year Assessment: Math

2 Primarily short answer and selected response questions

Focused on conceptual knowledge, skills, and understandings

Current PARCC Design

Two pathways are offered for high school math assessments: Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra II Integrated/Math I, Integrated/Math II, and Integrated/Math

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Secondary Math

New high school mathematics assessment system has room for increased flexibility:

Secondary Math Options

Grade Assessment Options*

8 (3 options) 8th grade assessment or Algebra I/Integrated I

9 (4 options) Algebra I/Integrated I or Geometry/Integrated II

10 (6 options) Algebra I/Integrated I or Geometry/Integrated II or Algebra II/Integrated III

11 (4 options) Geometry/Integrated II or Algebra II/Integrated III

12 (2 options) Algebra II/Integrated III

*Addit ional fl exibi l i ty is being explored.

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The number of ELA items has been reducedhttps://

www.parcconline.org/parcc-states-reduce-no-items-elaliteracy-portion-test

Grades 3-5 - reduced by 2 passage sets (passage and questions)Grades 6-11 - reduced by 1 passage set

PARCC is determining operational testing times based on field test performance.

Testing Time

Practice Materials

A full set of practice tests will be available this fall/winter Practice tests for paper and pencil tests are being developed Practice tests are available at the following location: http

://practice.parcc.testnav.com/#

Imagine that your family is moving to a new place and your pet will not be allowed to live there. Write a letter to persuade the person in authority to allow your pet to live there.

What kind of adult would you like to become? Write a paragraph to describe the kind of person you would like to be in ten years.

CSAP/TCAP Writing – Middle School

PARCC English Language Arts – Middle School

You have read a website entry and an article and watched a video describing Amelia Earhart. All three include information that supports the claim that Earhart was a brave, courageous person. The three titles are:

“The Biography of Amelia Earhart”“Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found”“Amelia Earhart’s Life and Disappearance” (video)

Consider the argument each author uses to demonstrate Earhart’s bravery.

Write an essay that analyzes the strength of the arguments related to Earhart’s bravery in at least two of the three supporting materials. Remember to use textual evidence to support your ideas.

We know that elementary and middle schools can assess online; however, depending on number of devices:Multiple groups for each grade level Technology directed to assessment

Current PARCC Design:5 sections per student for the performance-based assessment 4 sections per student for the end-of-the-year assessment

Option that is being considered: Offer mathematics assessments as paper-based assessments

Capacity for Spring 2015

CMAS: PARCC vs. Science/Social Studies

PARCC has adopted PearsonAccess Next as the foundation to use Testnav 8. Some terms are changing:

Student Data Upload (SDU) – is now Student Registration Import (SRI) This year both terms will be used, since we are on two different

platforms

Headphones are required for all students during the Research Simulation Unit of the ELA PBA

Request for Early Test Window

PARCC is finalizing testing window options.

CDE expects to have a process similar to TCAP, under which districts will be able to request an early window The details are still being determined