Overview Dr. Karen Russo 1 As of October 1, 2014

1. Information is located at: parcconline.org 2. On this website you can find the PD Modules by clicking on: PARCC Resources Educators Online Professional Learning PARCC Assessment Overview 3. You may also find recent information from the News and Updates tab 2 Location of PARCC Information

The Story of PARCC: What is PARCC? The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states working together to develop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers." In addition, PARCC involves the educators who know the students, working to understand what's needed and what keeps the students' best interests at the forefront. This understanding has been crucial to the development of the PARCC assessments. 3

The Story of PARCC: What are the CCSS? 4 The CCSS are a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy. They help to define what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. It's the role of individual districts and classroom teachers to design the curriculum and determine instructional approaches to help students reach those standards. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.

The Story of PARCC: Why are the standards needed? 5 For years, states have been setting different standards for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. States saw that, all too often, those standards were not clear, not focused, and not rigorous, unlike the CCSS.

The Story of PARCC: How do PARCC and the CCSS link up? 6 PARCC assessments check students' progress against the CCSS so that assessments and classroom learning can collaborate toward a common goal. PARCC data will be designed to help educators in their instructional decision- making as they support students in their learning.

The Story of PARCC: PARCC Assessments 7 PARCC assessments: are more intellectually engaging than current tests incorporate next-generation design measure college and career readiness are aligned to the Common Core State Standards measure reading, writing, and mathematics — with a focus on critical thinking provide timely data for students and teachers provide a variety of tools as an assessment system offer comparable scores across states

PARCC’s Purpose and Design 8 Formative assessment usually happens in the classroom. It may be quite informal; that is, any question, observation, or short task that gives both teacher and student a clearer idea of what to do next. It's assessment for learning. Summative assessment describes a student's progress at the end of a period of instruction, such as a school year or curricular unit. It's usually formal, and the results go on the student's record. It's assessment of learning. The PARCC summative assessment is in two parts: Performance-Based Assessment that allows students to apply their skills and knowledge to authentic, real world problems End-of-Year Assessment that will focus more on content and concept skills

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Performance-Based Assessment 9 March 2-March 27, 2015 The Performance-Based Assessment is summative. It shows what a student has achieved and is part of the student's combined score for the year. In order for students to show their achievement over a significant period of time, it is administered as close to the end of the school year as possible after three-quarters of the year has passed. The assessment consists of extended tasks to assess the application of concepts, practices, and skills. For example, in English Language Arts/Literacy, the tasks will assess the ability to write effectively when analyzing text, such as in the context of a research simulation. In Mathematics, the tasks will assess the ability to solve multistep problems, requiring abstract reasoning, precision, perseverance, and strategic use of tools.

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: End-of-Year Assessment 10 April 27-May 22, 2015 The summative End-of-Year Assessment takes place at the end of the school year, when at least 90% of the year's progress can be assessed. In the PARCC system, it consists of innovative machine-scored items. In English Language Arts/Literacy, the End-of-Year Assessment will include machine-scored items that focus on reading comprehension. In Mathematics, the machine-scored items will test both concepts and skills.

New information about ELA End-of-Year Assessment 11 The ELA End-of-Year test will reduce the number of passages and items. The range of standards measured will remain the same. Only the number of items include to measure those standards will change.

Grades 3-5 ELA End-of-Year Changes 12

Grades 6-11 ELA End-of-Year Changes 13

Grade 3 Unit Times: PBA and EOY for ELA and Math 14 First Table=New Test Session Times as of Second Table=Old Test Session Times (June-September)

Grades 4-5 Unit Times: PBA and EOY for ELA and Math 15 First Table=New Test Session Times as of Second Table=Old Test Session Times (June-September)

Grades 6-8 Unit Times: PBA and EOY for ELA and Math 16 First Table=New Test Session Times as of Second Table=Old Test Session Times (June-September)

Grades 9-11 Unit Times: PBA and EOY for ELA and Math 17 First Table=New Test Session Times as of Second Table=Old Test Session Times (June-September)

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks 18 The Frameworks clarify areas of emphasis in each grade and what changes in the Standards from one grade to the next. In Grades K-2, they will serve as guides for developing diagnostic tools and formative tasks that you can use to get real-time data on how your students are doing and where they need help or enrichment. Located on PARCC Resources Tab-Educators-Model Content Frameworks. In Grades 3 through 11 they served as foundational documents to guide development of assessments.

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: ELA 19 dule1/index.htm?Attempts=3&W1=1047&H1=703&W2=1047 &H2=703&W3=1047&H3= Click on “Standard” 2. Click on “Teacher” 3. Click on “Go To Menu” (bottom) 4. Under “In Theory” click on “PARCC’s Purpose and Design” Part 1: Narrative Summary of the ELA/Literacy Standards Part 2: The Model Content Framework Chart Part 3: Key Terms and Concepts for the Model Content Framework Chart Part 4: Writing, Speaking, Listening Standards Progressions Charts

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: ELA 20 Part 1: Narrative Summary of the ELA/Literacy Standards

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: ELA 21 Part 2: The Model Content Framework Chart

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: ELA 22 Part 3: Key Terms and Concepts for the Model Content Framework Chart

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: ELA 23 Part 4: Writing, Speaking, Listening Standards Progressions Charts

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: Math 24 dule1/index.htm?Attempts=3&W1=1047&H1=703&W2=1047 &H2=703&W3=1047&H3= Click on “Standard” 2. Click on “Teacher” 3. Click on “Go To Menu” (bottom) 4. Under “In Theory” click on “PARCC’s Purpose and Design” Part 1: Examples of key advances from the previous grade Part 2: Fluency expectations or examples of culminating Standards Part 3: Examples of major within-grade dependencies Part 4: Examples of opportunities for connections among Standards, clusters, or domains

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: Math 25 Part 1: Examples of Key Advances from the Previous Grade

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: Math 26 Part 2: Fluency Expectations or Examples of Culminating Standards

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: Math 27 Part 3: Examples of Major Within-Grade Dependencies

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Model Content Frameworks: Math 28 Part 4: Examples of Opportunities for Connections Among Standards, Clusters, or Domains

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Performance Level Descriptor 29 PLD’s are written for the 2 assessment claims of reading and writing. For the reading claim, the performance levels at each grade level are differentiated by: Text Complexity Range of Accuracy in Expressing Reading Comprehension (demonstrated in student responses) Quality of Evidence Cited from Sources Read There are five levels of mastery in the PARCC system. Each level from 1 to 5 has a performance level descriptor.

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Performance Level Descriptor for Grade 3 30

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Performance Level Descriptor for Grade 3 31

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Performance Level Descriptor for Grade 3 32

PARCC’s Purpose and Design: Testing Time 33 To complete both the Performance-Based Assessment and the End-of-Year Assessment in English Language Arts/Literacy and mathematics will take a student anywhere from 8 hours a year in Grade 3 to 9.5 hours in high school, which amounts to not more than 1% of instructional time in most schools.

Assessment Components 34 PARCC is building Speaking and Listening Assessments for Grades K-12. Student performance on these assessments will show teachers, parents, and students themselves how well they gain and demonstrate an understanding of information presented orally as well as how they effectively communicate information through speech. This is a locally administered and scored assessment. It is meant to be formative, not summative.

Innovation in PARCC Assessments: ELA Task Types (For PBA) 35 1.Literary Analysis Task (LAT) plays an important role in assessing students' ability to read complex text closely. Research reveals that this is the most significant factor that differentiates between college- ready and non-college-ready readers. 2.Research Simulation Task (RST) asks students to analyze information in several articles or multimedia. The first text is an anchor text to introduce the topic. Students answer a series of questions about the texts. Then they put the information together from the various sources to write an essay that demonstrates their analysis 3.Narrative Task (NT) asks students may to write a story, detail a scientific process, write a historical account of important figures, or to describe an account of events, scenes or objects, for example.

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grade 3 36

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grade 3 37

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grades

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grades

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grades

Prose Constructed Response Rubric Grades

Innovation in PARCC Assessments: ELA Items Types 42 1.Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR) items combine a traditional selected-response question with a second selected- response question that asks students to show evidence from the text that supports the answer they provided to the first question. 2.Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR) items use technology to capture student comprehension of texts in authentic ways that have previously been difficult to score by machine for large scale assessments. Examples of TECR are: drag and drop, shade text, move items to show relationships. 3.Prose-Constructed Response (PCR) items elicit evidence that students have understood the texts they have read and can communicate that understanding well, both in terms of written expression and knowledge of language and conventions. There are four of these items of different types on each annual Performance- Based Assessment.

Innovation in PARCC Assessments: Math Items Types 43 1.Concepts, Skills, and Procedures 2.Mathematical Reasoning 3.Model and Apply