Next Generation Assessment Design: English-Language Arts & PARCC (K-12)

Brad SiegelQuad-District Summer PARCC Institute: Day 1 Breakout Session

Taking the PARCC Assessment: Notice(ings) & Wonderings?

What do you notice and wonder about after taking a PARCC field test this summer?

Take a broad view of the PARCC assessment from the experience of a typical student in your class. Record responses on the chart paper around the classroom.

1st Phase: Content, Skills, Habits

2nd Phase: Instructional Implications

3rd Phase: Moving to Student Independence

Key Points

• Performance-based tasks

• Technology enhanced assessment

• Multiple response versus multiple choice

1. Literary Analysis Task

2. Narrative Writing Task

3. Research Simulation Task

4. End of Year Assessment

PARCC ELA Assessment Design Structure

Literary Analysis Task

2 literary texts worth close study

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A few Evidence Based Selected Responses (EBSR) & Technology Enhanced Constructed Responses (TECR) - close analytic reading

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1 Prose Constructed Response (PCR) - synthesis of ideas and expression of ideas

10th grade PCR

Narrative Writing Task

Read 1 or 2 brief texts; answer questions to clarify understanding

Write narrative story or description (historical/scientific)

1 Prose Constructed Response (PCR) - synthesis of ideas and expression of ideas

3rd-5th grade narrative item

Research Simulation Task

1 anchor text: EBSR & TECR to demonstrate understanding

1 Prose Constructed Response (PCR) - synthesis of ideas and expression of ideas

Read 2 additional sources (multimedia text)

Mirror research process by synthesizing understanding in analytic essay

7th grade research task

End of Year Assessment

Read several passages closely and answer EBSR and TECR questions to deeply encounter texts

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Questions draw on higher order thinking skills: critical reading, comparison and synthesis of ideas, and determining the meaning of words through context.

7th grade research task

Assessment Design Structure: Key Takeaways

• Close interplay between reading and writing (EBSR)

• Abundance of analytical writing

• Emphasis on complex texts and the text itself drawn from real world experience and multiple disciplines

• Intersection between reading, thinking, and technology (TECR)

A. Integration of multiple skills from multiple disciplines

B. Real world, novel context (including research)

C. Constructed response

Performance-based tasks

ELA Performance -Based Tasks 3rd-5th grade: Smarter Balanced

ELA Performance -Based Tasks HS: Smarter Balanced

A. Drag and drop text B. Highlight and

manipulate text C. Navigating multiple

media and texts D. Writing in drop down

box

Technology Enhanced Tasks

ELA Technology Enhanced Tasks 7th grade

ELA Technology Enhanced Tasks HS: Smarter Balanced

A. Many possible answers to one question

B. No correlation between number of right and wrong responses

C. New and diversified question stems

D. Questions building on one another

Multiple Response versus Multiple Choice

ELA Multiple Responses 3rd-5th grade

ELA Multiple Responses 10th grade

ELA Multiple Responses 7th grade

Additional Considerations Complex Texts

Additional Considerations Writing Rubric

Reflecting on PARCC Assessment Design: Notice(ings) & Wonderings?

What do you notice and wonder about the PARCC assessment design?

Take a broad view of the PARCC assessment from the experience of a typical student in your class. Record responses on the chart paper around the classroom.

4th Phase: What are key insights you gained about the nature of the ELA PARCC assessment and questions you have about its design entering the 2014-15 school year?

Coaching teachers: PARCC ELA Assessment Design

Your task

• Design 1 assessment item to use with colleagues in a professional setting.

• The design must include an element of each: performance, technology enhancement, and multiple response

• Work with 1 colleague with common interest (grade-subject).

• Save and upload your task on Dropbox. Be prepared to share your task at the onset of Day 2