PARCC Assessment English Language Arts/Literacy & Mathematics, Grades 6 - 8

PARCC AssessmentEnglish Language Arts/Literacy & Mathematics, Grades 6 - 8 By Raani Agrawal

Agenda • PARCC Overview & Goals • PARCC Design & Sample Items • ELA • Math • Time Line

PARCC Overview & Goals • “Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College & Careers” • Coming 2014 – 2015 School Year • Based directly on Common Core State Standards • PARCC’s goal is to return “summative data” before the end of the year.

PARCC Overview & Goals • Goal #1: Create High Quality Assessments • PARCC assessments are designed to measure the “full range of student performance”, and to guide instruction • Goal #2: Build a Pathway to College & Career Readiness for All Students • Students not meeting the standards will be identified, and will receive targeted instruction. • Goal #3: Support Educators in the Classroom • Educators will receive support: professional development, instructional tools to support implementation, timely student data.

PARCC Overview & Goals • Goal 4: Develop 21st Century, Technology Based Assessments • Assessments are computer based & engaging • Less paperwork for administration • Scoring more efficient • Produce Timely Reports throughout the year to inform instruction

PARCC Overview & Goals Goal 5: Advance Accountability At All Levels • PARCC assessments show growth: • School, district, & educator effectiveness • Comparisons with other state and international benchmarks

PARCC Design & Sample Items PARCC: 4 Components (ELA & Math) • 2 Required Summatives • Performance Based Assessment (PBA) • End of Year Assessment (EOY) • Non-Summatives • 2 Optional • Diagnostic Assessment • Mid Year Assessment (MYA) *Potentially Summative • 1 Required • Speaking & Listening Assessment (ELA/Literacy)

PARCC Design & Sample Items Beginning of School Year End of School Year Flexible administration Performance-Based Assessment DiagnosticAssessment Mid-Year Assessment End-of-Year Assessment Speaking and Listening Assessment Key: Optional Required

PARCC Design & Sample Items Summative Assessments Have Two Parts: • Performance Based Assessment (PBA) • Administered after at least 75% of the school year. Early Spring • ELA/Literacy: Writing effectively when analyzing texts • Mathematics: Reasoning & modeling real world problems • End of Year Assessment (EOY) • Administered after approximately 90% of the school year. • ELA/Literacy: Reading Comprehension • Math: Further understanding of key concepts & ability to use math facts. *Both tests will measure critical thinking & problem solving skills

PARCC Design & Sample Items Non – Summative Assessment Components: • Diagnostic Assessment • Optional. Indicator of student knowledge and skills so that instruction, supports, and professional development can be customized. • Mid Year Assessment (MYA) • Optional. Contains performance based items and tasks, with an emphasis on hard to measure standards. (Might become summative component) • Speaking and Listening Assessment (ELA/Literacy) • Required, assesses students’ speaking & listening skills.

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA • PARCC will adhere to CCSS shifts: • Text complexity – The standards require close reading and writing about complex texts with academic vocabulary. • Evidence – The standards require reading and writing that are grounded in text evidence. • Building knowledge – The standards require reading and writing across the disciplines of science and social studies.

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Items Types (ELA) • Evidence Based Selected Response (EBSR) • Technology Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR) • Range of Prose Constructed Responses (PCR)

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Items Types (ELA) • Evidence Based Selected Response (EBSR) • Combines traditional selected response questions with a second selected response question that asks students to show evidence from the text that supports the answer in the previous question

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Items Types (ELA) • Technology Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR) • Uses technology to capture student comprehension of texts in authentic ways that have been difficult to score by machine for large scale assessments (drag & drop, cut & paste, shade text, move items to show relationships).

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Items Types (ELA) • Range of Prose Constructed Responses (PCR) • These items will be essays that measure students’ understanding of texts through written expression. Language conventions will also be measured. PBA will contain FOUR of these items.

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Tasks - Performance Based Component) • Literary Narrative Task • Students need to read complex text closely. • They will answer questions (EBSR & TECR) & compose an analytic essay. • Sample Problems • Narrative Task • Students may be asked 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, etc. • Sample Problems

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA 3 Tasks (Performance Based Component) • The Research Simulation Task • Not traditional assessments. Designed to measure more real-world skills, such as research, synthesis, and writing. • Session 1 - students will read an “anchor text,” answer EBSR & TECR items about the text, & write a short summary of the text. • Session 2, students will read two additional texts or sources & answer more EBSR & TECR items about them. Students will then synthesize their understanding of all three sources by writing an analytical essay. • Sample Research Simulation Task Sample ELA Problems

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA Evidence Based Selected Response (EBSR) Example: 1(a) Which statement best describes the central idea of the text? a) Miyax is far from home and in need of help. b) Miyax misses her father and has forgotten the lessons he taught her. c) Miyax is cold and lacks appropriate clothing. d) Miyax is surrounded by a pack of unfriendly wolves. 1(b) Which sentence best helps develop the central idea? a) “Miyax pushed back the hood of her sealskin parka & looked at the Arctic sun.” b) “Somewhere in this cosmos was Miyax; and the very life in her body, its spark & warmth, depended upon these wolves for survival.”* c) “The next night the wolf called him from far away and her father went to him & found a freshly killed caribou.” d) He had ignored her since she first came upon them, two sleeps ago.”

PARCC Design & Sample Items - ELA Technology Enhanced Constructed Response (TECR) According to the article “The Biography of Amelia Earhart,” which events had the most significant impact on Earhart’s life? From the list, create a summary by dragging the four most significant events and dropping them in chronological order into the table. 19

PARCC Design & Sample Items - Math PARCC will adhere to CCSS Shifts: • Focus: Key content, skills, and practices at each grade level • Coherence: Contents in the standards builds across grades, and major topics are linked within grades. • Rigor: In major topics, the standards highlight conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application

PARCC Design & Sample Items - Math • Math problems may include simulations that call for improving a model, responding to game-like environments, or constructing diagrams or other visual models. • Math items will avoid the limitations of traditional multiple-choice items with formats such as drag and drop, selected response with multiple correct answers, and multi-step tasks. • Items will capture more complex student responses with the use of drawing tools and other technology. • Items will demonstrate rigor through multi-step tasks. • Items may include tasks that require written explanations of mathematical reasoning. Sample Math Problems Calculator Policy (2012)

PARCC Design & Sample Items - Math 3 Tasks • Type 1: Tasks Assessing Concepts, Skills, and Procedures • Include a balance of conceptual understanding, fluency, and application • Machine scorable • Sample Problems • Type 2: Tasks Assessing Mathematical Reasoning • Call for written arguments/justifications, critique of reasoning, or precision in mathematical statements. • Sample Problems

PARCC Design & Sample Items - Math 3 Tasks (Performance Based Component) • Type 3: Tasks Assessing Modeling Applications • Call for modeling/application in a real world context or scenario. • Includes a mix of innovative, machine scored, and hand scored responses. • Sample Problems

PARCC Timeline Taken From: http://www.parcconline.org/about-parcc http://www.parcconline.org/field-test 24

PARCC Timeline OVMS: Spring 2014 Notes: Back-up labs: 225 and 227. Students may not be tested on consecutive days. Testing will occur during appropriate “intervals”. Taken From: http://www.parcconline.org/field-test 25

References http://www.parcconline.org/about-parcc http://www.parcconline.org/field-test http://www.parcconline.org/samples/english-language-artsliteracy/grade-6-elaliteracy

PARCC Assessment English Language Arts/Literacy & Mathematics, Grades 6 - 8