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Assessment Update

Sacramento – September 21, 2010 Ontario – September 28, 2010

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Jack O’Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Overview

• Elementary and Secondary

Education Act Assessment Requirements

• California Assessments Used
• California Assessments Used
• Partnership for Assessment of

Readiness for College and Careers

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Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)

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Assessment Requirements Assessment Requirements

• Reading/language arts in grades 3–8 and at

least once in grades 10 12 least once in grades 10–12

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Mathematics in grades 3–8 and at least once in grades 10–12 in grades 10 12 Science at least once during each of three specified grade spans: grades 3 3–5, 6 5, 6–9, and specified grade spans: grades 9, and 10–12

California Assessments California Assessments Used for ESEA

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• Standardized Testing

and Re porting (STAR) Program:

– California Standards Tests (CSTs) – California Modified Assessment (CMA) – California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) Assessment (CAPA)

• California High School Exit Examination

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

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• Consortium of 26 states

– California signed MOU

Florida is procurement state

• Florida is procurement state

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PARCC Awarded Race to PARCC Awarded Race to the Top Assessment Funds

On September 2, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the U S Education Arne Duncan announced the U.S. Department of Education awarded “Race to the Top” assessment funds to PARCC for the development of a K-12 assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics.

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For a summary of the PARCC proposal, go to www.achieve.org/PARCCsummary/ (Outside Source).

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PARCC States

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Governing

• Arizona
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Louisiana

Louisiana

• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Tennessee

Participating

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Mississippi
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina

Georgia Oklahoma

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JACK O’CONNELL JACK O’CONNELL

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PARCC Purposes

• To measure and document students' college

and career readiness at the end of high school and progress toward this target.

• Provide assessments and results that:

– Are comparable across states at the student level – Meet internationally rigorous benchmarks – Allow valid measures of student longitudinal growth Allow valid measures of student longitudinal growth – Serve as a signal for good instructional practices

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PARCC Purposes (cont.)

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To support multiple levels and forms of lti d f accountability including:

Decisions about promotion and graduation for individual students – Teacher and leader evaluations – School accountability determinations School accountability determinations – Determinations of principal and teacher professional development and support needs – Teaching, learning, and program improvement

• To assess all students, including English

learners and students with disabilities. learners and students with disabilities.

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PARCC Key Actions

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• By Spring 2011 adopt:

– – common assessment administration common assessment administration procedures a common set of item release policies – a test security policy –

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a common definition of "English learner English learner" a common definition of and common policies and procedures for student participation and accommodations for English learners

PARCC Key Actions (cont.)

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• By December 31, 2011

– each consortium state adopt a common set

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• By Summer 2014

– adopt a common set of performance level descriptors

• By Summer 2015

By Summer 2015

– adopt a common set of achievement standards

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PARCC Summative PARCC Summative Assessments

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ELA/literacy

• 3 “through-course” components
• administered after 25%, 50%, and 75% of

instruction

• Speaking & listening components
• administered after 75% of instruction
• End-of-year component
• administered after 90% of instruction

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PARCC Summative PARCC Summative Assessments (cont.)

Mathematics

• 3 “through-course” components

– administered after 25%, 50%, and 75% of instruction

• End-of-year component

– administered after 90% of instruction

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PARCC Item Types

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• Constructed-response
• Performance tasks
• Computer-enhanced, computer-

scored

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Assessment Component Assessment Component Advantages

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• Through-course approach will focus instruction

throughout the year and nearer to the assessment

• The sum of the components address the full range of

the common core

• Allows for multiple measures across the full range of

performance

• Allows for in-depth assessment of writing and

mathematics problem-solving

• Both through-course and end-of-year components

provide data that teachers can use to adjust instruction

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PARCC Assessment PARCC Assessment Timeline

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• Pilot test

– 2011–12

• Field test

– 2012–13 and 2013–14

• Implementation

– 2014–15

• Standard setting

– 2014–15

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