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PARCC 101The Basics

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The Common Core State Standards lay the foundation toward ensuring that students are ready for college and career.

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PARCC will provide information to determine how students are progressing in that learning.

States, districts, schools, and teachers can use this information to inform

• Student Interventions• Systemic changes• Curricular and instructional changes

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)

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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 21st century, technology-based assessments

5. Advance accountability at all levels

6. Build an assessment that is sustainable and affordable

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The PARCC Goals

1.Determine whether students are college- and career-ready or on track

2.Assess the full range of the Common Core Standards

3.Measure the full range of student performance, including the 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

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Goal #1: Create High Quality Assessments

Assessment DesignEnglish Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics, Grades 3-11

End-of-Year Assessment

• Innovative, computer-based items

• Required

Performance-BasedAssessment (PBA)

• Extended tasks• Applications of

concepts and skills• Required

Diagnostic Assessment• Early indicator of

student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD

• Non-summative

2 Optional Assessments/Flexible Administration

Mid-Year Assessment• Performance-based• Emphasis on hard-to-

measure standards• Potentially

summative

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Speaking And Listening Assessment• Locally scored• Non-summative, required

Non-Summative Optional Assessment Components

Diagnostic Assessment• Early indicator of

student knowledge and skills to inform instruction, supports, and PD

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Optional Assessments/Flexible Administration

Mid-Year Assessment• Performance-based• Emphasis on hard to

measure standards• Potentially summative

– Diagnostic Assessment designed to be an indicator of student knowledge and skills so that instruction, supports and professional development can be tailored to meet student needs

– Mid-Year Assessment comprised of performance-based items and tasks, with an emphasis on hard-to-measure standards. After study, individual states may consider including as a summative component

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Summative Assessment Components

End-of-Year Assessment

• Innovative, computer-based items

Performance-BasedAssessment (PBA)

• Extended tasks• Applications of concepts

and skills

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• 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

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Goal #2: Build a Pathway to College and Career Readiness for All Students

K-2 3-8 High School

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

ONGOING STUDENT SUPPORTS/INTERVENTIONS

College readiness score to identify who

is ready for college-level coursework

SUCCESS IN FIRST-YEAR, CREDIT-

BEARING, POSTSECONDARY

COURSEWORK

Targeted interventions &

supports:• 12th-grade bridge

courses• PD for educators

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Goal #3: Support Educators in the Classroom

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODULES

INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION

EDUCATOR-LED TRAINING TO SUPPORT “PEER-TO-PEER” TRAINING

TIMELY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA

K-12 Educator

Goal #3: Instructional Supports and Tools

• Support implementation of the CCSS; support development of assessment blueprints; provide guidance to state, district- and school-level curriculum leaders in the development of aligned instructional materials

• Released November 9, 2011; Re-Release late June; Final in August.www.parcconline.org/parcc-content-frameworks

Model Content

Frameworks

Model Instructional

Units

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Model Instructional

Units

• Provide educators with examples of ways to implement the CCSS in schools; allow for the development and sharing of ideas for instructional implementation of the CCSS; encourage development of additional PARCC tools

• Expected Spring 2013

Professional Learning Modules

Goal #3: Supports and Tools (continued)

• Develop professional development modules focused on assessments to help teachers, school and district leaders, and testing coordinators understand the new assessment system and use of the data

• Expected Fall 2013

Professional Development

Modules

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• One-stop shop for PARCC resources; provide an online warehouse for all PARCC tools and resources as well as other instructional material being developed by PARCC states and districts and national organizations

• Expected Spring 2013

Partnership Resource

Center

• Develop models of innovative, online-delivered items and rich performance tasks proposed for use in the PARCC assessments.

• Expected Summer 2012

Item and Task Prototypes

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Goal #4: Develop 21st Century, Technology-Based Assessments

PARCC’s assessment will be computer-based and leverage technology in a range of ways:

Develop innovative tasks that engage students in the assessment process

Streamline administration by reducing paperwork, increase security, reduce shipping/receiving & storageIncrease access to and provision of accommodations for SWDs and ELLsMake scoring more efficient by combining human and automated approachesProduce timely reports of students performance throughout the year to inform instructional, interventions, and professional development

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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

Timeline Through First PARCC Administration in 2014-2015

PARCC Tools & Resources

College-ready tools released

Partnership Resource

Center launched

Professional development

modules released

Diagnostic assessments

released

Pilot/field testing begins

Expanded field testing of diagnostic

assessment

Optional Diagnostic and Midyear PARCC

Assessments

Spring2013

Summer 2013

Winter 2014

Spring2014

Summer 2014

Fall2013

Fall2014

PARCC Assessment Implementation

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Expanded field testing

Model Instructional

Units Released

K-2 Formative Tools Released

Winter 2015

Spring2015

Summative PARCC Assessments

Standard Setting in

Summer 2015