What do we know?

1. What do we know? What do we need to do to be ready?

2. What We Know • PARCC Assessments • Scheduled to be operational in 2014-15 • Pending final Board of Regents approval • NYSED statewide computer-based testing transition plan • NYSED will follow the PARCC Content Frameworks • All Curricular and Professional Development Resources • Assessments beginning with the 2013-14 school year Ken Wagner 2013 Memo

3. Speaking and Listening Components Added PARCC Timeline 2015 -2016 PARCC Goes Live 2014 -2015 2nd year Pilot Field Testing 2013 -2014 1st year Pilot Field Testing 2012 -2013 Development 2011 -2012 Launch and Design 2010 -2011

4. Grades 3-11 Math and ELA/Literacy • Maximum Window of 20 School Days per component (States or Districts can choose shorter time span if sufficient capacity) End-of-Year Assessments (EOY) Administered after 75% of the school year Grades 3-11 3 sessions for ELA/Literacy 2 sessions for Math Administered after 90% of the school year Grades 3-11 2 sessions for ELA/Literacy 2 sessions for Math Performance-BasedAssessments (PBA)

5. Beginning of School Year End of School Year Flexible Administration Field testing in Spring 2015 Given after 75% of the school year Given after 90% of the school year Plan to release for 2015/16 school year.

6. PBA Possible Schedule of Testing Windows EOY

7. PARCC ELA/Literacy Summative Assessment Reflect Three Common Core Shifts. . . • Regular practice with complex text and its academic language • Reading and writing grounded in evidencefrom text, literary and informational • Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction

8. ELA Students’ Command of Evidence with Complex Texts is at the Core of Every Part of the Assessment! Two standards are always in play — whether items are focused on reading or writing. • Use of Evidence • Complex Texts

9. Three Innovative Item Types Showcase Students’ Command of Evidence with Complex Texts • Evidence-Based Selected Response (EBSR) • Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR) • Prose Constructed Responses (PCR)

10. Evidence Based Selected Response Sample Question Grade 6 ELA

11. Scoring Rationale for the previous question: • Past testswouldhavegivencreditforarightAnswer regardlessofhowastudentarrivedattheanswer, butthePARCCassessmentreflectsthekeyshiftofrequiringclosereadingbyofferingcreditforPartAonlyifPartBiscorrectand vice versa. Scoring Points: • 2 pointsareearnedwhenthestudentcorrectlychoosestheanswertoPartA(A) andtheanswertoPartB(D). • There isnoopportunityforpartialcrediton this item. http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/GR%206%20PARCC%20ELA%20Item%201_1.pdf

12. Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response Sample Question Grade 7 Below are three claims that one could make based on the article “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.” Part A Highlight the claim that is supported by the most relevant and sufficient evidence 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.

13. Scoring Rationale for previous question: • Past tests would have given credit for a right answer regardless of how a student arrived at the answer, but the PARCC assessment reflects the key shift of requiring close reading by offering credit for Part B only if Part A is correct. Scoring Points • 2 points when students correctly answer Part A and identify two facts or ideas from the article that support the claim (Part B) • 1 point for correctly answering Part A and identifying one fact or idea from the article that supports the claim (Part B) • 0 points if Part A is not correctly answered. http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/Gr%207%20PARCC%20ELA%20Item%202.pdf

14. Prose Constructed Response Sample Question Grade 10

15. Draft Rubrics: http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grades-6-11-generic-rubrics-draft

16. Questions Worth Answering… • draw students into deeper encounters with texts. • provide opportunities for students to demonstrate what they know. • allow for partial credit. • include purposeful options for student expression of divergent thinking. • use technology that allows students to construct meaning for machine-scorable items.

17. Grade 3 Sample “Research Simulation Task” “Today you will research two people who lived long ago. As you read these passages, you will gather information and answer questions. Then you will write an article for your school newspaper to teach your classmates about how there two people made a difference in America.” • Excerpt 1 is from the book titled Eliza’s Cherry Trees: Japan’s Gift to America and is about a young woman who lived in Washington, D.C., in the 1800s. • Excerpt 2 is “The Peanut Man” about George Washington Carver. http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grade-3-elaliteracy

18. PARCC Math Summative Assessment Reflect Three Common Core Shifts. . . • Focus: The PARCC assessment will focus strongly where the Standards focus. • Coherence: Think across grades and link to major topics within grades. • Rigor: In major topics, pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application.

19. Sample PARCC Question Grade 4 Math http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

20. Scoring Points for the Previous Grade 4 Math Question

21. Sample PARCC Question Grade 7 Math http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

22. Scoring Points for Previous Grade 7 Math Question

23. Sample PARCC Question HS http://www.ccsstoolbox.com/parcc/PARCCPrototype_main.html

24. Scoring Points for Previous HS Math Question

25. http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manualhttp://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual Embedded Supports Accessibility Features Identified in advance. Available to all participating students. Accommodations For students with disabilities and ELL

26. Embedded Supports Not embedded Supports: Blank Paper and Redirect Student to the Test http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 22-23

27. Accessibility Features District Determined http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 22-23

28. Accommodations for SWD http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-accessibility-features-and-accommodations-manual p. 27-34

29. PARCC Reports Will Use 5 Performance Levels Extensive Academic Support Needed Needs Academic Support Academic Support Likely Well Prepared! College and Career Ready Determination

30. PARCC and Retesting PARCC will allow retest opportunities. States will set their own policies on retakes. • Beginning summer of 2015 • Once per year for grades 3-8 • Up to 3 times per year for each High School EOY assessment

31. Guidance on Number of Devices Needed Note: NYSED and PARCC have the same recommendations for the number of devices that will be needed.

32. Device Specifications Minimum vs. Recommended Minimum Specs… • may not be adequate beyond 2 years. • are more likely to experience slower performance. • apply only to existing school technology inventories. Recommended Specs… • are expected to satisfy PARCC requirements until 2018-2019. • apply to existing inventory and new technology purchases.

33. Paper and Pencil Format Will Be Available… • when an IEP requires. • for schools approved by NYSED.

34. To Be Prepared and Ready… • Technology and Logistics • Complete/update technology readiness survey/tool • Determine technology needs • Analyze current technology curriculum • Develop testing plan • Instruction • Implications for Instruction • Sample/Prototype Problems (few available now, sample tests in Spring 2013) • Research professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. (PD modules will be developed November 2013-May 2014.)