Welcome to Crofton Middle School s PARCC Parent Night. Please pick up copies of the handouts at the back table.

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1 Welcome to Crofton Middle School s PARCC Parent Night Please pick up copies of the handouts at the back table.

2 Key Advances of the Common Core MATHEMATICS Focus, coherence and clarity: emphasis on key topics at each grade level and coherent progression across grades Procedural fluency and understanding of concepts and skills Promote rigor through mathematical proficiencies that foster reasoning and understanding across discipline High school standards organized by conceptual categories ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY Balance of literature and informational texts; focus on text complexity Emphasis on argument, informative/ explanatory writing, and research Speaking and listening skills Literacy standards for history, science and technical subjects ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS

3 What s Next? Common Assessments Common Core State Standards are critical, but it is just the first step Common assessments aligned to the Common Core will help ensure the new standards truly reach every classroom 3

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5 Two Required Assessments Yield Overall Score Beginning of School Year End of School Year Performance- Based Assessment End-of-Year Assessment After 75 percent of the school year Extended tasks, applications of concepts and skills ELA/literacy: Writing effectively when analyzing text, research simulation Math: Solving multistep problems requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance and strategic use of tools After 90 percent of the school year Innovative, short-answer items ELA/literacy: Reading comprehension Math: Short items that address both concepts and skills 5

6 The PARCC Goals 1. Create high-quality assessments 2. Build a pathway to college and career readiness for all students 3. Support educators in the classroom 4. Develop 21 st century, technology-based assessments 5. Advance accountability at all levels 6

7 Goal #1: Create High Quality Assessments Priority Purposes of PARCC Assessments: 1.Determine whether students are college- and career-ready or on track 2.Assess the full range of the Common Core Standards, including standards that are difficult to measure 3.Measure the full range of student performance, including the performance high and low performing students 4.Provide data during the academic year to inform instruction, interventions and professional development 5.Provide data for accountability, including measures of growth 6.Incorporate innovative approaches throughout the system 7

8 Goal #1: Create High Quality Assessments To address the priority purposes, PARCC will develop an assessment system comprised of TWO components. Most components will be computer-delivered and will leverage technology to incorporate innovations. Two summative, required assessment components designed to Make college- and career-readiness and on-track determinations Measure the full range of standards and full performance continuum Provide data for accountability uses, including measures of growth 8

9 Goal #1: Create High Quality Assessments Summative Assessment Components: Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) administered as close to the end of the school year as possible. The ELA/literacy PBA will focus on writing effectively when analyzing text. The mathematics PBA will focus on applying skills, concepts, and understandings to solve multi-step problems requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) administered after approx. 90% of the school year. The ELA/literacy EOY will focus on reading comprehension. The math EOY will be comprised of innovative, machine-scorable items 9

10 Higher Expectations ELA/Literacy Read sufficiently complex texts independently Math Solve problems: content and mathematical practice Write effectively to sources Reason mathematically Build and present knowledge through research Model real-world problems Have fluency with mathematics 10

11 Goal #2: Build a Pathway to College and Career Readiness for All Students K-2 formative assessment being developed, aligned to the PARCC system Timely student achievement data showing students, parents and educators whether ALL students are on-track to college and career readiness College readiness score to identify who is ready for college-level coursework Targeted interventions & supports: 12 th -grade bridge courses PD for educators K High School SUCCESS IN FIRST-YEAR, CREDIT-BEARING, POSTSECONDARY COURSEWORK ONGOING STUDENT SUPPORTS/INTERVENTIONS 11

12 Goal #3: Support Educators in the Classroom INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODULES K-12 Educator TIMELY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA EDUCATOR-LED TRAINING TO SUPPORT PEER-TO-PEER TRAINING 12

13 Goal #4: Develop 21 st Century, Technology-Based Assessments PARCC s assessment will be computer-based and leverage technology in a range of ways: Item Development Develop innovative tasks that engage students in the assessment process Administration Reduce paperwork, increase security, reduce shipping/receiving & storage Increase access to and provision of accommodations for SWDs and ELLs Scoring Make scoring more efficient by combining human and automated approaches Reporting Produce timely reports of students performance throughout the year to inform instructional, interventions, and professional development 13

14 Goal #5: Advance Accountability at All Levels PARCC assessments will be purposefully designed to generate valid, reliable and timely data, including measures of growth, for various accountability uses including: School and district effectiveness Educator effectiveness Student placement into college-credit bearing courses Comparisons with other state and international benchmarks PARCC assessments will be designed for other accountability uses as states deem appropriate 14

15 Sample PARCC Items

16 ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item 16

17 ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item Claims Earhart and Noonan lived as castaways on Nikumaroro Island. Earhart and Noonan s plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean People don t really know where Earhart and Noonan died. Part A: Highlight the claim that is supported by the most relevant and sufficient facts within Earhart s Final Resting Place Believed Found. Part B: Click on two facts within the article that best provide evidence to support the claim selected in Part A. 17

18 ELA/Literacy: Grade 7 Sample Item Students read the text that introduces the topic Items are designed to help students gather information from the texts to lead to the final writing prompt Items require different types of responses to allow students to demonstrate a command of evidence with complex texts 18

19 A GUIDE TO ACCESSING PARCC PRACTICE TESTS AND TUTORIALS PARCC PearsonAccess

20 PARCC Practice Tests

21 What is Available? Grades 3 11 End-of-Year tests for ELA Grades 3 8 Performance-Based tests for mathematics Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II Performance-Based tests for mathematics

22 Scoring Notes The fall 2014 release will have scoring capability built into the tool. PARCC will also provide rubrics for the prose constructed responses.

23 Go to the PARCC Pearson Access Website lite?pagename=pearson/quicklink/pc

24 Go to the PARCC Pearson Access Website

25 Go to the Related Links Section

26 Click on the Practice Tests Drop Down Arrow

27 Select the Desired Content Area (ELA or Math)

28 Click on the Drop Down Arrow for the Desired Grade-Level ELA or Math Test

29 Select the Standard Test Nav or Screen Reader Compatible Version

30 Click on the Blue Start Tab

31 Click on the Start Section Tab

32 Review the Accessibility Features at the Top of the Page and Guest Drop-Down Menu

33 PARCC Tutorials

34 Purpose of Tutorials Demonstrate the navigation and tools available on the assessment technology platform (TestNav 8). The tutorial will contain a sequence of screens that demonstrate basic TestNav 8 navigation and tools.

35 Purpose of Tutorials The items appearing in this tutorial are not PARCC items. They are samples used to allow students and educators to gain familiarity with the technology platform that will be used for PARCC assessments.

36 What Tutorials Are Available? Tutorial: How to navigate through the TestNav 8 online tests Tutorial: How to use the Equation Editor Tool Tutorial: How to use the TestNav 8 Computer-based Text-to- Speech Accommodation Tutorial: How to use the Graphing Calculator (appropriate for High School Students or students taking a High School Assessment)

37 Go to the PARCC Pearson Access Website lite?pagename=pearson/quicklink/pc

38 Resources -Overview of the PARCC Assessment. Full of helpful resources, background information, and Frequently Asked Questions Site that allows students to take practice exams and use tutorials to become familiar with how the PARCC Assessments work. -Overview of the Common Core Standards and how they fit into each grade level -Helpful site that provides many different links for parents to assist their students in preparing for the PARCC Assessments -Website that breaks down how the Common Core Standards will help bring out the best in our schools. -Provides parent roadmaps on what to ask teachers and how to assess where students are at in their studies.

39 Commoncoreworks.org