Accessibility for Students Taking Assessment Consortia Tests
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Accessibility for Students Taking Assessment Consortia Tests
National Conference on Student AssessmentJune 19-22, 2011www.PARCConline.org
• Create high-quality assessments that measure the full range of the Common Core State Standards
• Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students and make accurate and reliable determinations as to whether students are “on track” or “ready” for college and careers
• Provide information that supports various accountability uses (e.g., school, educator, student)
• Provide timely and actionable information that supports continuous improvements in curriculum and instruction that inform effective classroom instruction and assessment practices
• Leverage technology for a variety of uses: innovative items, accommodations, administration, and scoring and reporting.
• Report results that allow for comparability across all PARCC states, across consortia, and to national and international assessments.
The PARCC Vision
PARCC Accessibility Goals
The Partnership will:•Work to minimize/eliminate features that are irrelevant to what is being measured and measure the range of complexity of the standards so that students can demonstrate their knowledge;•Design each component in a manner that allows ELL students and students with identified needs to demonstrate what they know and can do;•Apply principles of universal design for accessible assessments throughout every stage of developing assessment components, items, and performance tasks;•Leverage technology for delivering assessment components as widely accessible as possible; and•Establish a Committee on Accessibility and Accommodations comprised of knowledgeable testing officials from member states (OWG).
Partnership States
Governing Board States Participating StatesMembership as of 6/16/11
PARCC Governance
Governing Board States (15) AZ, AR, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MD, MA, NJ, NY, OK, RI, TN
Governing Board Chair Massachusetts Commissioner Mitchell Chester
Participating States (9) AL, CO, DE, KY, MS, ND, OH, PA, SC
Fiscal Agent StateFlorida
US Education Department award is to Florida on behalf of 25 states to oversee budget, procurement, and reporting functions
Project Management Partner
AchieveAchieve is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work, and citizenship
Membership as of 6/16/11
PARCC Governance Structure
Steering Committee
Henry BraunBoston College
Bob BrennanUniversity of Iowa
Derek BriggsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
Wayne CamaraCollege Board
Linda CookRetired, ETS
Ronald HambletonUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gerunda HughesHoward University
Huynh HuynhUniversity of South Carolina
PARCC Technical Advisory Committee
Michael KolenUniversity of Iowa
Suzanne LaneUniversity of Pittsburgh
Richard LuechtUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jim PellegrinoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara PlakeUniversity of Nebraska- Lincoln
Rachel QuenemoenNational Center on Educational Outcomes
Laurie WiseHuman Resources Research Organization, HumRRO
PARCC Technical Working Groups (TWG)
• Limited number of groups convened by the TAC to address high priority topics that would benefit from collective problem-solving by leading experts
• Comprised of domain-specific technical advisors who interact with leadership and working groups and report to the TAC
Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness TWG: • Committee members represent a range of expertise
in accessibility and accommodations• Role is to help guide the efforts of working groups in
designing accessible assessments that remain true to the intended constructs
Technical Advisory
Committee (TAC)
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Leadership Team (LT)
Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness TWG Invited Members
Diane August Center for Applied Linguistics (ELL)
David EdyburnUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (SWD)
Claudia FlowersUniversity of North Carolina – Charlotte (SWD)
Dianne PicheLeadership Conference on Civil Rights
Charlene RiveraGeorge Washington University (ELL)
Diane SpenceRegion 4 Education Service Center, Braille Services (Braille)
Martha ThurlowNational Center on Educational Outcomes (SWD)
Dan WienerMassachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (accommodations for state assessments)
Gerunda Hughes will serve as the liaison to the PARCC Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).
PARCC Operational Working Groups (OWG)
• Who: Comprised of state representatives, Achieve staff members, and eventually vendor representatives
• What: Responsible for the day-to-day aspects of work of key components of work
• Why: To ensure efficient and effective collaboration among PARCC members to meet PARCC goals.
Technical Advisory
Committee (TAC)
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Leadership Team (LT)
Design
Research
Communications
Data, Technology, and Innovation
Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness
CCSS Implementation and Educator Engagement
PARCC Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness OWG Members
Roberta Alley (Chair)Interim Associate Superintendent, Standards & AssessmentsArizona Department of Education
Trinell BowmanProject Manager for Assessments forStudents with DisabilitiesMaryland State Board of Education
Melissa FincherAssociate Superintendent of Assessment and AccountabilityGeorgia Department of Education
Charity FloresAssistant Director, Office of Student AssessmentIndiana Department of Education
Andrew HinkleEducational ConsultantOhio Department of Education
Bambi LockmanChief, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student ServicesFlorida Department of Education
Phyllis LynchDirector, Office of Instruction, Assessment and CurriculumRhode Island Department of Education
Michael ReidDirector, Academic Performance IndexOklahoma State Department of Education
Lori RodriguezBureau Chief, Student Achievement through Language AcquisitionFlorida Department of Education
Accessibility and AccommodationsWorking Groups – Overview
The Working Groups will be responsible for: Drafting a set of Partnership-wide policies in a Partnership
Accommodations Manual to be adopted by each member state for identifying eligible students, selecting allowable accommodations, and administering accommodations. That process will include:
• Analyzing extant state accommodation policies,• Building a list of recommended standard accommodations,• Identifying constructs and research on possible new accommodations,• Recommending a set of proposed accommodation policies for the
assessment,• Drafting a common Partnership Accommodations Manual,• Ensuring comparability in assessment administrations,• Monitoring ongoing refinements of accommodations, and • Developing training modules for IEP teams.
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Accessibility and AccommodationsWorking Groups – Overview
The Working Groups will be responsible for (continued): Identifying challenges. Proposing research relating to accommodations.
Adopting key policies and definitions that will include:• a common definition of “English Learner”;• a common set of policies and procedures for providing assessment
accommodations for English learners and students with identified needs; and
• a common set of policies and procedures for participation of English learners and students with identified needs in the assessment system.
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Accessibility and AccommodationsWorking Groups – Overview
Accessibility and Accommodations as a part of the development process
• Design review and feedback• Test blueprint development• Technology development and selection• Passage and media review committee involvement• Item review committee involvement• Bias and sensitivity committee involvement• Testing the efficacy of assessment items with accommodations with
the intended groups of students in pilot and field testing• Including sufficient number of students with identified needs (across
sub-categories) in pilot and field testing• Data review committee involvement
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Accessibility and AccommodationsWorking Groups – Overview
• Build accessibility throughout the test itself with no trade-off between accessibility and validity
• Use a combination of ‘accessible’-authoring and accessible technologies from the inception of items and tasks
• Establish and maintain a close working connection with the Data, Technology, and Innovation OWG
Technical Working Groups (TWG)
Operational Working Groups (OWG)
Accessibility for Students Taking Assessment Consortia Tests
National Conference on Student AssessmentJune 19-22, 2011www.PARCConline.org