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Enhancing ELA Assessments: PARCC Prototypes and Item Writing Strategies

Join Michelle Mushkin and Sarah Slack for an interactive session designed to empower educators in creating high-quality ELA assessment items aligned with the RL CCRS. Participants will review released PARCC prototypes to become familiar with new item styles, draft assessment items, and apply general writing protocols. Through collaborative workshops, you will evaluate and edit peer-written items, ensuring alignment with educational standards. In light of the upcoming PARCC field testing, this session will equip teachers with essential skills for effective assessment writing.

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Enhancing ELA Assessments: PARCC Prototypes and Item Writing Strategies

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  1. Presenter Introduction: Michelle Mushkin • ELA Teacher • Item Writer for Pearson and Scantron Sarah Slack • Curriculum Coach SVHS • ELA Teacher

  2. This Session’s Goals: • PWBAT review released PARCC prototypes to familiarize with new item styles • PWBAT draft assessment items aligned to the RL CCRS • PWBAT apply general item writing protocols to improve drafted items • PWBAT evaluate assessment items and assess alignment to CCRS • PWBAT edit assessment items written by peers and offer suggestions for improvement

  3. PARCC Prototype Stagnation

  4. PARCC Prototype Stagnation

  5. PARCC Field Testing at TLG • All K-12 TLG schools will be field testing PARCC tests this spring in Arizona. • Many will be giving ELA tests. • Some schools will be giving the tests online; other schools will be giving paper versions TLG ELA Field Testing Sites: ONLINE: ATHS 11th SPHS 9th AVHS 11th DHHS 10th MHPA 10th SPJHS 7th EHS 9th, 10th, 11th SRHS 9th, 10th, 11th PAPER: CVPA 8th SVHS 9th, 10th EDHS 10th VGPA 7th PAHS 9th QHS 9th SKYHS 9th

  6. Writing CCSS-Aligned Items for RL Standards

  7. The Unpacked Standards!

  8. www.leonaqsiela.com

  9. ACTIVITY #1:Horizontal Alignment RL 1: How are the CCSS evident in the instructional sequence for this course unit?

  10. ACTIVITY #2:VERTICAL ALIGNMENT ITEM WRITING 2. Write 3-5 questions that could be used as a summative assessment for this unit using the common informational text provided to you.

  11. ACTIVITY #3:VERTICAL ALIGNMENT ITEM WORKSHOP 3. Prepare to present one of your items to the whole group.The whole group will analyze and provide feedback for CCSS alignment.

  12. ACTIVITY #4:Horizontal Alignment RL 1: How are the CCSS evident in the instructional sequence for this course unit?

  13. ACTIVITY #4:VERTICAL ALIGNMENT ITEM WRITING & WORKSHOP 2. Write 3-5 questions that could be used as a summative assessment for this unit using the common informational text provided to you.

  14. ACTIVITY #5:Horizontal Alignment RL 1: How are the CCSS evident in the instructional sequence for this course unit?

  15. ACTIVITY #6:VERTICAL ALIGNMENT ITEM WORKSHOP 3. Prepare to present one of your items to the whole group.The whole group will analyze and provide feedback for CCSS alignment.

  16. ACTIVITY #7:Horizontal Alignment RI.9 1: Evaluate the RI items in the Pre-Post Assessment2. For each item, determine a 1,2, or 3 rating:1=Tightly aligned2=Somewhat aligned3=Not even close 3. Prepare to share your group’s ratings with the whole group

  17. Thank You!!! • A session survey will be emailed to you this week through a Googledoc. Kindly complete it so we can reflect and improve future PD efforts. • Travel safely!

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