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PARCC Performance Level Setting

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Performance Level Setting timeline

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Spring 2015

Administration of PARCC assessments

July/August

Performance level setting for high school and grades 3-8

August/September

State K-12 and higher ed chiefs review/vote on recommended cut scores

Fall 2015

2014-15 assessment results available through score reports

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Performance Level Setting: What is it?

• This summer, educators and experts will determine what score each student must earn on the assessment in order to achieve a particular performance level.

• States nominated a variety of stakeholders to participate in 12 in-person panels to review the assessments.

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K-12 educators Postsecondary faculty

Grade-Span Panels

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Five Performance Levels

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PARCC uses five performance levels that delineate the knowledge, skills, and practices students are able to demonstrate:

Level 1: Did Not Yet

Meet Expectations

Level 2: Partially Met Expectations

Level 3: Approached Expectations

Level 4: Met

Expectations

Level 5: Exceeded

Expectations

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Performance Level Setting: The Process

• To determine what range of scores best matches each performance level, panelists will use pre-established Performance Level Descriptors that indicate what a typical student at each level should know based on their command of grade-level standards.

• They will use the performance level descriptors and actual test results and compare them to empirical studies to make their judgments.

• Each group will go through at least three rounds of review per assessment to develop the cut scores for each performance level.

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Performance Level Setting Method

Judgment + Data = Threshold Scores

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Review test items

• Answer the question:

• Based on the PLDs, would a student performing at level X be likely to answer the item correctly, Yes or No?

Impact data

• Empirical data from research• Judgments of

other panelists• % of students

performing at each level

• % who got item correct

Multiple Rounds

• Panelists discuss their judgments, are given impact data, conduct second review,

• Panelists discuss judgments again, are given additional data and conduct a third round.

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Research to Inform the Performance Level Setting Process

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• Research Questions – Based on External Data– What percentage of students are likely to be college- and career-ready, according to PARCC’s

definition?– What percentage of students are likely to be on track for the next academic level at earlier grades?

• Two studies to inform performance level setting

Postsecondary Educators

Judgment Study

Benchmark StudySATACT

NAEPTIMSSPISA

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Performance Level Setting: What’s Next

Post-policy meetings will be conducted to review the recommended scores across grade and content areas.

1. PARCC state review of HS standards (informational only)

2. PARCC K-12 and higher education chiefs review and adopt HS cut scores for performance levels

3. PARCC state review of grades 3-8 standards (informational only)

4. PARCC K-12 education chiefs review and adopt grades 3-8 cut scores for performance levels

Because comparability is a priority, every PARCC member will adopt the same cut scores.

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Performance Level Setting: What’s Next

Parent Score Report• Parents will receive their student’s

score report for this year’s assessments in the fall.

• Each student’s score report will indicate which performance level he or she falls into based on the score received.

• The report is intended to help parents work with their child’s teachers and school officials to decide how best to support their child’s needs.

• In future years, it is expected that parents will receive score reports by the end of the school year in which testing took place.

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Performance Level Setting: Additional Resources

For more information:

Grade- and Subject-Specific Performance Level Descriptor FAQs: (www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCC-PLD-FAQs-July2013-revised.pdf)

Governing Board members: (www.parcconline.org/governing-board)

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