Post on 25-Dec-2015
Common Core Assessments
An introduction to the California Common Core State Standards and how the Smarter Balanced Assessments
Michael Horton, RIMS AVID
Common Core Goals
The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.
• The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the official standards of California, but the testing and accountability have not yet kicked in.
• The focus of the CCSS is to guarantee that all students are college and career ready as they exit from high school.
• The committee determined what a graduate would need to be considered “College Ready” and then backwards mapped it to kindergarten.
Introduction to Common Core
What’s Different
“These Standards are not intended to be new names for old ways of doing business. They are a call to take the next step. It is time for states to work together to build on lessons learned from two decades of standards based reforms. It is time to recognize that standards are not just promises to our children, but promises we intend to keep.” — CCSS (2010, p. 5)
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Math%20Standards.pdf
CCSS Timeline
• CA standards have already been replaced by Common Core (2011) in ELA and Math
• Legislation has already been passed to change the accountability system (2012)
• Smarter Balanced exam will be field tested in 2013-2014 and cut scores proposed
• Smarter Balanced assessment is operational in 2014-2015 school year
What Does ELA CCSS Focus on? Rigor Application to the “real world” Technology and media sources Justification and evidence Communication/collaboration Expository reading and writing (70% by H.S.) Research Literacy in Science, Social Studies,
and “Technical Subjects”
What Does Math CCSS Focus on?
Conceptual understanding. Number sense in elementary. Application to real world
problems. Rigor. Success in algebra and higher
level mathematics.
Six Shifts in Common Core ELA
Shift 1- Balancing Informational & Literary Text
Shift 2- Knowledge in the Disciplines- is built through text, not teachers or activities
Shift 3- Staircase of Complexity- Increasingly complex texts are read closely (close reading video)
Shift 4- Text-based answers- Students engage in rich conversations about text
Shift 5- Writing from Sources- Emphasize use of sources and textual evidence to defend an argument
Shift 6- Academic Vocabulary- Students constantly build vocabulary necessary to access complex text
Six Shifts in Common Core Math
Shift 1- Focus, narrow and deep Shift 2- Coherence, content is connected
within and across grade levels and subjects Shift 3- Fluency, Students develop speed and accuracy
with simple calculations Shift 4- Deep Understanding, Students learn
concepts deeply and focus less on algorithms to solve individual problems (Dan Meyer video)
Shift 5- Application, Students can apply math in novel situations without being prompted
Shift 6- Dual Intensity, Practice and understanding are not only balanced, but simultaneous
Reading
Anchor Standards1. Key Ideas and Details2. Craft and Structure3. Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas4. Range of Reading
and Level of Text Complexity
• Pre-reading inside and outside of text (R)
• Quickwrites/Reflections (W)
• Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
• Marking, charting, annotating text, critical reading (R)
• Graphic Organizers (R)• Summarizing (R)• Dialectic Journals (W)• Interactive Notebooks (W)• Reciprocal Teaching (R)• Socratic Seminars/Phil. Chairs (C)
WICOR Strategy
Reading
Anchor Standards1. Key Ideas and Details2. Craft and Structure3. Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas4. Range of Reading
and Level of Text Complexity
• Pre-reading inside and outside of text (R)
• Quickwrites/Reflections (W)
• Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
• Marking, charting, annotating text, critical reading (R)
• Graphic Organizers (R)• Summarizing (R)• Dialectic Journals (W)• Interactive Notebooks (W)• Reciprocal Teaching (R)• Socratic Seminars/Phil. Chairs (C)
WICOR Strategy
Reading
Anchor Standards1. Key Ideas and Details2. Craft and Structure3. Integration of
Knowledge and Ideas4. Range of Reading
and Level of Text Complexity
• Pre-reading inside and outside of text (R)
• Quickwrites/Reflections (W)
• Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
• Marking, charting, annotating text, critical reading (R)
• Graphic Organizers (R)• Summarizing (R)• Dialectic Journals (W)• Interactive Notebooks (W)• Reciprocal Teaching (R)• Socratic Seminars/Phil. Chairs (C)
WICOR Strategy
Writing
Anchor Standards5. Text Types and
Purposes6. Production and
Distribution of Writing7. Research to Build and
Present Knowledge8. Range of Writing
Quickwrites and Reflections (W)
Focused Cornell Notes (WOR)
Process Writing (W) Authentic Writing –
Dialectic Journals/ Interactive Notebooks (W)
Research (I) Learning Logs (W)
WICOR Strategy
Speaking and Listening
Anchor Standards9. Comprehension and
Collaboration10. Presentation of
Knowledge and Ideas
Socratic Seminars (IC)
Philosophical Chairs (C)
Tutorials (C)Reciprocal Teaching
(R)Peer Evaluation (W)Questions that
Guide Research (I)Group Activities and
Projects (C)
WICOR Strategy
Language
Anchor Standards11. Conventions of
Standard English
12. Knowledge of Language
13. Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Deep Reading Activities (R)
Vocabulary Building (R)
Process Writing (W)Peer Evaluation (W)Peer Editing Groups
(C)
WICOR Strategy
Math
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
4. Model with mathematics
5. Use appropriate tools strategically
6. Attend to precision7. Look for and make
use of structure8. Look for and express
regularity in repeated reasoning
Standards for Mathematical Practice
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RELEVANCEPra
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CSTCCSS
Real World
Between The Lines
Off The Page
On The Page
COSTA’S LEVELS OF THINKING
Types of Items
Selected Response- Adaptive multiple choice with one or more answers
Constructed Response- Prompts students for text or numerical response
Technology Enhanced- Students drag-and-drop math items, click sentence fragments in a passage, or drag phrases into a graphic organizer
Performance Tasks
Performance Task Description
Performance tasks measure a student’s ability to integrate knowledge and skills across multiple standards—a key component of college and career readiness. Performance tasks will be used to better measure capacities such as depth of understanding, research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with selected- or constructed-response items. The time and resource constraints for each performance task will vary. During the spring 2013 pilot, the Consortium will research the effects of including a brief classroom interaction phase in the summative performance task The classroom interaction phase will then be appropriately constrained in the future.
Performance Tasks
Now in content-alike groups, get together and design a technology-enhanced, long-term, research-based, cross-curricular, multiple-standard, collaborative performance task.