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Preparing for the Transi0on to PARCC Na$onal Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Cory Curl, Senior Fellow, Assessment and Accountability Achieve September 6, 2012
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Preparing for the Transi0on to PARCC
Na$onal Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality
Cory Curl, Senior Fellow, Assessment and Accountability Achieve
September 6, 2012
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
Understanding the PARCC
Assessment System
PARCC Assessment PrioriDes
1. Determine whether students are college-‐ and career-‐ready or on track
2. Compare performance across states and internaDonally
3. Assess the full range of the Common Core Standards, including standards that are difficult to measure
4. Measure the full range of student performance, including the performance of high and low performing students
5. Provide data during the academic year to inform instrucDon, intervenDons and professional development
6. Provide data for accountability, including measures of growth
7. Incorporate innova0ve approaches throughout the system
Assessment Design English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathema0cs, Grades 3-‐11
End-‐of-‐Year Assessment
• InnovaDve, computer-‐based items • Required
Performance-‐Based Assessment (PBA) • Extended tasks • ApplicaDons of concepts and skills • Required
Diagnos0c Assessment • Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instrucDon, supports, and PD • Non-‐summaDve
2 Op0onal Assessments/Flexible Administra0on
Mid-‐Year Assessment • Performance-‐based • Emphasis on hard-‐to-‐measure standards • PotenDally summaDve
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Speaking And Listening Assessment • Locally scored • Non-‐summaDve, required
PARCC Tools & Resources
Tools & Resources
• Purpose: Support implementa)on of the CCSS; support development of assessment blueprints; provide guidance to state, district-‐ and school-‐level curriculum leaders in the development of aligned instrucDonal materials
• Audience: State and local curriculum directors (primary audience) ; teachers
• Timeline: Released November 9, 2011; educator feedback June-‐July 2012: www.parcconline.org/parcc-‐content-‐frameworks
Model Content
Frameworks
Model InstrucDonal
Units
• Purpose: Develop models of innovaDve, online-‐delivered items and rich performance tasks proposed for use in the PARCC assessments.
• Audience: Broad audience: teachers, schools, districts, states (for CCSS implementaDon and PARCC assessment preparaDon)
• Timeline: IniDal sample items and tasks released August 20, 2012; h_p://www.parcconline.org/samples/item-‐task-‐prototypes
Item and Task
Prototypes
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K-‐12 and Postsecondary Engagement
• Purpose: Develop exper)se on the CCSS and PARCC; develop state and peer leaders; build and expand the number of educators who understand and feel ownership for implemen)ng the CCSS and PARCC Assessments
• Audience: State teams of K-‐12 teachers, school and district leaders, local and state curriculum directors, and postsecondary representaDves
• Timeline: Annual meeDngs beginning in Summer 2012
Educator Leader Cadres
• Purpose: Ensure development of college-‐ready assessments; strengthen alignment between K-‐12 and postsecondary; prepare students for postsecondary opportuniDes
• Audience: PARCC convenes teams of K-‐12 and higher educaDon faculty and leaders
• Timeline: Ongoing
Post-‐secondary Engagement
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PARCC Timeline
PARCC Timeline Through 2011-‐12
Fall 2011
Winter 2012
Spring 2012
Summer 2012
PARCC Assessment ImplementaDon
PARCC Tools & Resources
Model Content Frameworks released (Nov 2011)
Educator Leader Cadres launched
Sample summaDve assessment items
released
Item development
begins
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Updated Model Content Frameworks
Released
Fall 2012
Timeline Through First PARCC AdministraDon in 2014-‐2015
PARCC Tools & Resources
DiagnosDc assessments released
Pilot/field tesDng begins
Expanded field tesDng of diagnosDc
assessment
OpDonal DiagnosDc and Midyear PARCC
Assessments
Spring 2013
Summer 2013
Winter 2014
Spring 2014
Summer 2014
Fall 2013
Fall 2014
PARCC Assessment ImplementaDon
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Expanded field tesDng
K-‐2 FormaDve Tools Released
Winter 2015
Spring 2015
SummaDve PARCC Assessments (2014-‐15 SY)
Standard Sefng in
Summer 2015
Key Transi0on Issues
• Assessments – removing items, adding items, “bridge” assessments
• Accountability and public reporDng • Statewide student performance goals and college-‐ and career-‐
ready indicators • Educator effecDveness • Technology to support teaching, learning, and assessment • State policies and regulaDons • Support to educators in using tools, resources, and ulDmately
PARCC assessment data for effecDve instrucDon
Areas of State TransiDon Planning For New Outcome Data
• Develop and implement communicaDons strategy to prepare educators and the public for results in 2014-‐15, with parDcular a_enDon to parents and state legislators
• Build broad-‐based coaliDon led by Governor, Commissioner of EducaDon, business leaders and postsecondary leaders
• Build partnerships to support CCSS implementaDon by teachers and school leaders
Preparing Educators and the Public for the TransiDon
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