Making Connections: C3, EOC, & KCAS

1. Making Connections: C3, EOC, & KCAS By Jana Kirchner KDE/GRREC SS Network Meeting April 16, 2014

2. Graduates with College Career Ready Skills in Social Studies • Brainstorming - When students graduate from your high school social studies department, what skills would you like them to have? • What “texts” do we use to teach social studies?

3. What SS skills are targeted in the standards? • C3 KCAS: Literacy in History/SS ACTQuality Core Process Skills

4. EOC Test Blueprint - U.S. History

5. The Four Levels of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) • Level I measures Recall at a literal level. • Level 2 measures a Skill or Concept at an interpretive level. • Level 3 measures Strategic Thinking at an evaluative level. • Level 4 measures Extended Reasoning. Module 3 4

6. DOK Level 1Recall • Requires recall of information such as a fact, term, definition, or a simple procedure • Requires students to demonstrate a rote response or perform a simple procedure

7. DOK Level 2 Skill/Concept: Basic Reasoning • Requires mental processing beyond recall or reproducing an answer • Students must make some decisions about how to approach a problem • Cognitive demands are more complex than in Level 1 • Comparing and interpreting trends or patterns, describing cause/effect; interpret point of view

8. DOK Level 3Strategic Thinking: Complex Reasoning • Requires planning, thinking, explaining, justifying • Cognitive demands are complex and abstract • Develop a logical argument, justify “how” and “why” with evidence; draw conclusions from observations; make connections across time and place

9. The EOC Assessment Experience • To get a sense of what students will experience when taking a timed assessment, you will take a sample quiz that includes released EOC items. • http://www.online-stopwatch.com/large-stopwatch/ • Reflecting on the sample questions… Module 5 1

10. Check your answers! U.S. History B B B D C D B B B D

11. Types of MC Items Module 5 5

12. Types of MC Items Module 5 6

13. Interpreting Political Cartoons

14. Interpreting Political Cartoons • What was the legacy of the era depicted in this nineteenth-century illustration? • The Emancipation Proclamation • Grandfather clauses and poll taxes • The Dred Scott v. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions • Fugitive slave laws Thomas Nast “Worse Than Slavery” Oct. 24, 1874Harper’s Weekly Answer B DOK level 3

15. Analyzing Multiple Choice Items • Standard: Identify the characteristics of social conflict and social change that took place in the early 1920s. • A researcher uses census data from 1900, 1910, and 1920 to identify foreign-born heads of working-class households in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He discovers a high percentage of the same surnames in all 3 censuses. Using this information, he can propose generalizations about which topic? A. Consumer preferences B. Health conditions C. Immigration patterns D. Leisure activities

16. How do you teach these skills? • What do you notice about these sample EOC items? • How do you integrate literacy skills into your class? • Strategies for teaching a variety of SS texts? • Reading and writing like a historian? • Text structure in SS? (pp. 241-242)