Implementing the Common Core and PARCC Assessments Michael Cohen February 15, 2012

1. Implementing the Common Core and PARCC Assessments Michael Cohen February 15, 2012

2. 46 States + DC Have Adopted the Common Core State Standards * Minnesota adopted the CCSS in ELA only

3. Key Advances of the Common Core in Mathematics ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

4. Focus in Mathematics Providing Greater Depth

5. MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES • Mathematically proficient students: • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

6. Key Advances of the Common Core in ELA/Literacy ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

7. Non-Text Dependent vs. Text Dependent Questions Examples from a lesson on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

8. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)

9. PARCC Priorities • Create high-quality assessments • Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students • Support educators in the classroom • Develop 21st century, technology-based assessments • Advance accountability at all levels • Build assessment system that is sustainable and affordable

10. PARCC Assessment DesignEnglish Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3-11 Optional Assessments/Flexible Administration • End-of-Year • Assessment • Innovative, computer-based items • Mid-Year Assessment • Performance-based • Emphasis on hard-to-measure standards • Potentially summative • Performance-Based • Assessment (PBA) • Extended tasks • Applications of concepts and skills • Diagnostic Assessment • Early indicator of student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD • ELA - Speaking And Listening • Assessment • Locally scored • Non-summative, required Summative, Required assessment Interim, optional assessment

11. Claims Driving Design: ELA/Literacy

12. ELA/Literacy Performance-Based Assessment

13. ELA/Literacy End-of-Year AssessmentGrades 3-11 • Students read approximately 6 texts, including multimedia texts • The percentage of literature to informational/disciplinary literacy texts changes to reflect the shift in text emphasis in the standards • Students answer approximately 50 machine-scorable questions

14. Examples of what we ask students to write about from today’s tests Example #1:Most people have a special activity or hobby that they enjoy. Some people collect things while others like to read or play games. What activity do you like to do? Write a composition describing what you enjoy doing.  Explain why that activity is special to you. (Grade 3-5, New Jersey) Example #2: Think about what a perfect day would be for you. What would you do? Where would you be? Who would be with you? In a well-developed composition, describe your perfect day and explain why it would be perfect for you. (Grade 7, Massachusetts) Example #3: Who are our heroes? The media attention given to celebrities suggests that these people are today’s heroes. Yet ordinary people perform extraordinary acts of courage every day that go virtually unnoticed. Are these people the real heroes? Write an essay in which you define heroism and argue who you think our heroes really are–mass media stars, ordinary people, or maybe both. Be sure to use examples of specific celebrities, other people you have heard or read about, or people from your own community to support your position. (Grade 12, NAEP)

15. Claims Driving Design: Mathematics • Students are on-track or ready for college and careers

16. Mathematics Performance-Based AssessmentGrades 3-11 • Focus will be on: • Sub Claim A – major content • Sub Claim C – reasoning • Sub claim D – modeling/applications • PBA will be scored in time to be incorporated into the summative score • PARCC will release all PBA tasks along with item analysis and item-level scores

17. Mathematics End-of-Year Assessment Grades 3-11 • Will be comprised of computer‐based machine-scorable items. • Will focus on Sub Claims A (major content), B (supporting content), and E (fluency). High school • States will select between traditional or integrated mathematics sequence; and each complete sequence will measure the full range of high school mathematics standards. • There is interest in creating a modularized version of the EOC exams, to allow greater customization of sequencing and pacing

18. Higher Demands for the Same Content…

19. …With a Much Sharper Focus

20. PARCC Assessment System: Tools & Resources

21. Tools & Resources (continued)

22. Tools & Resources (continued)

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