What do we know?What do we need to do to be ready?

What We Know

• PARCC Assessments• Scheduled to be operational in 2014-15

• Pending final Board of Regents approval

• NYSED statewide computer-based testing transition plan

•NYSED will follow the PARCC Content Frameworks• All Curricular and Professional Development Resources

• Assessments beginning with the 2013-14 school year

Ken Wagner 2013 Memo

PARCC Timeline

2011 -2012

2012 -2013

2013 -2014

2014 -2015

2015 -2016

2010 -2011

Launch andDesign

Development

1st year PilotField Testing

2nd year PilotField Testing

PARCC Goes Live

Speaking and

Listening Components

Added

Performance-Based Assessments (PBA)

End-of-Year Assessments (EOY)

• Administered after 75% of the school year

• Grades 3-11

• 3 sessions for ELA/Literacy

• 2 sessions for Math

• Administered after 90% of the school year

• Grades 3-11

• 2 sessions for ELA/Literacy

• 2 sessions for Math

• Grades 3-11 Math and ELA/Literacy

• Maximum Window of 20 School Days per component (States or Districts can choose shorter time span if sufficient capacity)

Beginning of School Year End of School Year

Flexible Administration

Plan to release for 2015/16 school year.

Field testing in Spring 2015

Given after 75% of the school year

Given after 90% of the school year

Possible Schedule of Testing Windows

PBA

EOY

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PARCC ELA/Literacy Summative Assessment Reflect Three Common Core Shifts. . .

• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

• Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, literary and informational

• Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction

Two standards are always in play — whether items are focused on reading or writing.

• Use of Evidence

• Complex Texts

Students’ Command of Evidence with Complex Texts

is at the Core of Every Part of the Assessment!

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ELA

•Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR)

• Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR)

• Prose Constructed Responses (PCR)

Three Innovative Item Types Showcase Students’ Command of Evidence

with Complex Texts

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Evidence Based Selected Response Sample Question Grade 6 ELA

Scoring Rationale for the previous question: • Past tests would have given credit for a right Answer

regardless of how a student arrived at the answer, but the PARCC assessment reflects the key shift of requiring close reading by offering credit for Part A only if Part B is correct and vice versa.

Scoring Points:• 2 points are earned when the student correctly chooses

the answer to Part A (A) and the answer to Part B (D).

• There is no opportunity for partial credit on this item.

http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/GR%206%20PARCC%20ELA%20Item%201_1.pdf

Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response Sample Question Grade 7

Claims

Earhart and Noonan lived as castaways on Nikumaroro Island.

Earhart and Noonan’s plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

People don’t really know where Earhart and Noonan died.

Below are three claims that one could make based on the article “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.”

Part AHighlight the claim that is supported by the most relevant and sufficient evidence within “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.”

Part BClick on two facts within the article that best provide evidence to support the claim selected in Part A.

Scoring Rationale for previous question:• Past tests would have given credit for a right answer regardless

of how a student arrived at the answer, but the PARCC assessment reflects the key shift of requiring close reading by offering credit for Part B only if Part A is correct.

Scoring Points• 2 points when students correctly answer Part A and identify

two facts or ideas from the article that support the claim (Part B)

• 1 point for correctly answering Part A and identifying one fact or idea from the article that supports the claim (Part B)

• 0 points if Part A is not correctly answered.

http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/Gr%207%20PARCC%20ELA%20Item%202.pdf

Prose Constructed Response Sample Question Grade 10

Draft Rubrics: http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grades-6-11-generic-rubrics-draft

• draw students into deeper encounters with texts.

• provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know.

• allow for partial credit.

• include purposeful options for student expression of divergent thinking.

• use technology that allows students to construct meaning for machine-scorable items.

Questions Worth Answering…

Grade 3 Sample “Research Simulation Task”

“Today you will research two people who lived long ago. As you read these passages, you will gather information and answer questions. Then you will write an article for your school newspaper to teach your classmates about how there two people made a difference in America.”

• Excerpt 1 is from the book titled Eliza’s Cherry Trees: Japan’s Gift to America and is about a young woman who lived in Washington, D.C., in the 1800s.

• Excerpt 2 is “The Peanut Man” about George Washington Carver.

http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grade-3-elaliteracy

PARCC Math Summative Assessment Reflect Three Common Core Shifts. . .

1. Focus: The PARCC assessment will focus strongly where the Standards focus.

2. Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades.

3. Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application.

Sample PARCC Question Grade 4 Math

http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

Scoring Points for the Previous Grade 4 Math Question

Sample PARCC Question Grade 7 Math

http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

Scoring Points for Previous Grade 7 Math Question

http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

Sample PARCC Question HS

Scoring Points for Previous HS Math Question

http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual

Embedded Supports

Accessibility Features

Identified in advance. Available to all participating students.

AccommodationsFor students with disabilities

and ELL

Embedded SupportsAudio Amplification Magnification/Enlargement

Device

Eliminate Answer Choices Noise Buffers

Flag Items for Review Pop-up Glossary

Highlight Tool Spell Checker

General Administration Directions Read Aloud and Repeated as Needed

Writing Tools

Not embedded Supports: Blank Paper and Redirect Student to the Testhttp://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 22-23

Accessibility Features District Determined

Answer Masking

Background/Font Color

General Administration Directions Clarified (must be done by a human test administrator)

Line Reader Tool

Masking

Text-to-Speech for the Math Assessment

http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 22-23

Accommodations for SWD

Speech-to-Text (ELA) Familiar Test Administrator

Speech-to-Text (Math) Extended Time

Text-to –Speech (ELA) Time of Day

Calculation Device Adaptive or Specialized Furniture

Word Prediction (ELA) Special Lighting

http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 27-34

PARCC Reports Will Use 5 Performance Levels

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

Knowledge, skills and practices embodied by the CCS assessed at their grade level

Minimal Command

Partial Command

Moderate Command

Strong Command

Distinguished Command

Well Prepared!

Extensive Academic Support Needed

Needs Academic Support

Academic SupportLikely

College and Career Ready Determination

PARCC and Retesting

PARCC will allow retest opportunities.States will set their own policies on retakes.

• Beginning summer of 2015• Once per year for grades 3-8 • Up to 3 times per year for each High School EOY assessment

Guidance on Number of Devices Needed

School Type Minimum Recommended

School with 3 tested grades (K-5, 6-8, 9-12)

1 device for every two students in the largest tested grade

1 device per student in the largest tested grade

Schools with 6 tested grades (K-8)

1 device per student in the largest tested grade

1 device per student for the largest two tested grades

Note: NYSED and PARCC have the same recommendations for the number of devices that will be needed.

Device Specifications Minimum vs. Recommended

Minimum Specs…• may not be adequate

beyond 2 years.• are more likely to

experience slower performance.

• apply only to existing school technology inventories.

Recommended Specs…• are expected to satisfy PARCC

requirements until 2018-2019.

• apply to existing inventory and new technology purchases.

Paper and Pencil Format Will Be Available…

• when an IEP requires.

• for schools approved by NYSED.

To Be Prepared and Ready…• Technology and Logistics• Complete/update technology readiness survey/tool

• Determine technology needs

• Analyze current technology curriculum

• Develop testing plan

• Instruction• Implications for Instruction

• Sample/Prototype Problems (few available now, sample tests in Spring 2013)

• Research professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. (PD modules will be developed November 2013-May 2014.)