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Get Prepared Now for the PARCC/ Smarter Balanced Assessments

National Charter Schools Conference Washington, DC

July 2, 2013

Maggie Bello Principal Two Rivers PCS

Naomi DeVeaux, M.Ed. Deputy Director DC Public Charter School Board

Michon Floyd Director of District PD & Assessment Center City PCS

Cynthia Millinger, M.Ed. Founder & CEO Charter School Essentials

Please write down your definition of:

Performance-based assessment

Performance task

Please turn and talk to your neighbor:

How are they the same?

How are they different?

What Is a Performance Assessment?

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An assessment based on observation and judgment. Students engage in an activity that requires them to apply a performance skill or create a product and we judge its quality.

Has two parts: a task and a scoring guide

From Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well, Stiggins, Arter, Chappuis, and Chappuis

Performance Task Assessments

Art: Paint a picture or make a sculpture

Reasoning and persuasive writing: Imagine that it is 1858 and you make a special trip to hear Lincoln and Douglas debating during their campaigns for the Senate. Write an essay in which you explain the most important ideas and issues.

Science: Carry out the steps in the scientific method.

Collaboration: Work productively in a group on a task

Performance Task Examples

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To assess performance skills targets such as how to effectively conduct a job interview, how to represent the relationship between division and multiplication, and giving an oral presentation

Assessing knowledge targets such as part of a plant or important history facts, is not a good match for performance tasks

When to Use Performance Tasks

Getting to Know the PARCC & Smarter Balanced

Assessments

Cynthia Millinger

Founder & CEO

Charter School Essentials

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www.parcconline.org

www.smarterbalanced.org

PARCC: Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers

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Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

PARCC Assessment Design Grades 3 THROUGH 11

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Smarter Balanced Assessment Design Grades 3 – 8 AND 11 (NOT 9 & 10)

Comparing the Two Assessments

PARCC Smarter Balanced

Optional Interim Assessments

Summative Performance Tasks

Summative End of Year Assessment

Administered on a Computer

Computer Adaptive Test (CAT)

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Elements of Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT): Smarter Balanced ONLY

If a student answers a question correctly, s/he gets a harder question

If a student answers a question INCORRECTLY, s/he gets an easier question

Not all students take the exact same test

Students answer fewer questions than on fixed-form tests

PARCC Sample Task: Grade 3

http://parcconline.org/samples/mathematics/grade-3-mathematics






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Smarter Balanced Grade 5 Item

http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/index.htm

Smarter Balanced Grade 5 Item




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PARCC Sample Performance Task: Grade 7, Part A

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


PARCC Sample Performance Task: Grade 7, Part B



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PARCC Sample Performance Task: Grade 7, Scoring

Smarter Balanced Grade 6 Performance Task




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PARCC Sample Task: High School Functions

http://parcconline.org/samples/mathematics/high-school-mathematics

Smarter Balanced High School Item








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PARCC ELA/Literacy Performance-Based Assessment

For all grade spans, the PBA will measure the Reading, Writing, and Research claims —all of which will contribute to the Master Claim

Grades 3-5

•Research Simulation Task •Read one informational text,

recount the key details and main idea (Grade 3) or write a summary (Grade 4/5)

•Read three additional shorter texts, incorporate evidence from multiple texts in an analytic essay

•6-9 reading comprehension questions

•Engaging With Literature Task •Read one short piece of literature

and one extended piece of literature, answer reading comprehension questions

•Write a narrative using one piece of literature as a stimulus

•Write an analytic essay analyzing one or both texts

Grades 6-8

•Research Simulation Task •Read one informational text and

write a summary distinct from personal opinions or judgments (Grade 6) or an objective summary (Grades 7/8)

•Read three additional shorter texts and incorporate evidence from multiple texts in an analytic essay


•Literature Analysis Task •Read one short piece of literature

and one extended piece of literature; answer 4-6 reading comprehension questions


•Write an analytic essay analyzing one or both of the texts

Grades 9-11

•Research Simulation Task •Read one informational text and

write objective summary

•Read three additional shorter texts and incorporate evidence from multiple texts in an analytic essay


•Literary Analysis Task •Read one short piece of literature

and one extended piece of literature OR literary non-fiction

•Answer 4-6 reading comprehension questions


•Write an analytic essay analyzing one or both of the texts

Part A

What is one main idea of “How

Animals Live?”

a. There are many types of

animals on the planet.

b. Animals need water to live.

c. There are many ways to sort

different animals.*

d. Animals begin their life cycles

in different forms.

Part B

Which sentence from the article best

supports the answer to Part A?

a. “Animals get oxygen from air or

water.”

b. "Animals can be grouped by their

traits.”*

c. "Worms are invertebrates.”

d. "All animals grow and change over

time.”

e. "Almost all animals need water,

food, oxygen, and shelter to live."

PARCC Evidence-Based Selected-Response Item Grade 3

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PARCC Technology-Enhanced Constructed-Response Item Grade 3

Drag the words from the word box into the correct locations on the graphic to show the life cycle of a butterfly as described in “How Animals Live.”

Words:

Pupa Adult

Egg Larva

Smarter Balanced Listening Task Grade 4

http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm

http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm

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PARCC Technology-Enhanced Selected-Response Item Grade 6

Part A

Choose one word that describes Miyax based on evidence from the text. There is more than one correct choice listed below.

A. reckless

B. lively

C. imaginative*

D. observant*

E. impatient

F. confident

Part B

Find a sentence in the passage with details that support your response to Part A. Click on that sentence and drag and drop it into the box below.

Part C

Find a second sentence in the passage with details that support your response to Part A. Click on that sentence and drag and drop it into the box below.

Smarter Balanced Brief Write with Text Evidence Grade 6

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PARCC Prose Constructed-Response Item Grade 10

Use what you have learned from reading “Daedalus and Icarus” by Ovid and “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph” by Anne Sexton to write an essay that provides an analysis of how Sexton transforms Daedalus and Icarus.

As a starting point, you may want to consider what is emphasized, absent, or different in the two texts, but feel free to develop your own focus for analysis.

Develop your essay by providing textual evidence from both texts. Be sure to follow the conventions of standard English.

Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Introduction to Activity

http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/performance-tasks/nuclear.pdf






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Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Classroom Activity


Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Research












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Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Research Questions



Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Argumentative Essay Assignment











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Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Essay Scoring Criteria

How Are Authorizers Responding to This Change to Common Core?

Naomi Rubin DeVeaux

Deputy Director

DC Public Charter School Board






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Authorizers Are Responsible to Make Sure That Schools Are:

Educating students to read, write, do math,

and learn other academic content at high levels

Following the state and federal law, including

IDEA for students with disabilities

Attaining their stated mission

Achieving their charter goals

The Charter Agreement

Greater Autonomy for Higher Accountability

In order for the authorizer to advocate for and

protect charter autonomy, schools must achieve

high results, including on state assessments that

will very soon be measuring student mastery of

Common Core State Standards.

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Assessment and Accountability--Defined

Assessments are the tools that directly

measure student mastery of the standards.

Accountability is the responsibility charter

schools have to educate their students and

report their progress to the authorizer and

public in exchange for their increased

autonomy.

First and foremost, you are a school and your promise to your families is to teach students how to read and write in English, and do math.

A common state assessment is the only measure the public has to compare schools serving similar grades.

How you do this is up to you, that you do this is what is important to an authorizer.

The Role of a State Assessments in Accountability

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Your Curriculum

PARCC/Smarter

Balance:(how heavily is a

given standard assessed and

how) Mission-related (students

must have this skill to be

successful in life) Essential

Curriculum

All School’s Standards

ELA Math Science Social

Studies Mission Philosophy

PARCC/Smarter

Balance

Grade Level

and/or Subject

Area

Teaching to the test: For those who have been teaching to a basic-skills and knowledge test—spending major time on test-prep, without significant thought about the standards behind the test — will have to do some serious heavy lifting and may not be ready…

Teaching the standards: Those who are currently assessing students using items that are aligned to the performance-based examples we have shown you today, are on track to be prepared.

Critical Thinking Versus Test-Prep

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We do what we measure—the authorizer and the State plays a role in defining this

DC’s charter school Performance Management Framework (PMF) emphasizes student grade-level attainment and annual growth.

The test we use is the state assessment and we plan to use PARCC or Smarter Balance, when they are in place.

We also take into consideration persistency and attendance rates.

Authorizer and/or State Accountability Systems

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