1 PARCC Fall 2015 Update. Sections in this PowerPoint Context Test-driving a new assessment What...

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PARCCFall 2015 Update

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

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Sections in this PowerPoint Context Test-driving a new assessment What are our students and educators saying about

PARCC? Reporting PARCC results from spring 2015

Context


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Education Reform in Massachusetts

1993

McDuffy v. Secretary of Education

Education is a constitutional right

It is the state’s responsibility

The McDuffy case prompted the state legislature to pass the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act.


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1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act

Equitable school funding

High learning standards

School/ teacher

accountability

Rigorous student

assessments

The 1993 Education

Reform Act set the stage for

statewide assessments as one way to

ensure all students are receiving an

adequate education.


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Student Assessment Results: Uses

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Progress and Challenges


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Increasing Expectations



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The Need for a Next-Generation Assessment Greater alignment to updated 2010 ELA & math

frameworks More emphasis on critical thinking and reasoning Better feedback on readiness for next level Richer data to inform instruction Online platform

Efficiencies More options for accommodations Increasing use of technology

Pathway to entry level college credit

Test-driving a new assessment


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The 2-Year PARCC “Test Drive”

2013BESE

votes on 2-year

“test drive”

Spring 2014

PARCC Field

testing

Fall 2014Districts choose

PARCC or MCAS

Spring 2015

Operational PARCC and MCAS

testing

Fall 2015BESE

votes on November

17th whether to

adopt PARCC

Spring 2016

PARCC is implemented or transition begins to another

“next-gen” assessme

nt

Today

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MCAS and PARCC—Basic Differences


MCAS PARCC

Subjects• ELA, math, science,

alternative• ELA and math

Grades tested

• 3-8, 10• ELA 3-11• Math 3-11

Format • Paper only• Online and paper

versions

Testing time

• Untimed • Timed


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Which tests were taken in Spring 2015?

Grades Total Districts

MCAS PARCC

# % Students # % Students

Grades 3–8 362 165 46% 207,500 194 54% 227,000

Grade 9 and/or 11 295 n/a n/a n/a 69 23% 22,500


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Spring 2015 PARCC: Computers or Paper?

Grades DistrictsPARCC Paper-

Based

PARCC Computer-

Based

Mix of PARCC Computer- and Paper-Based

# % # % # %

Grades 3–8 194 61 31% 97 50% 36 19%

Grade 9 and/or 11 69 19 27% 44 64% 6 9%

The PARCC/MCAS Choice in November

3. With all this information (and more) on hand, the Board of Elementary and Secondary

Education will make a decision on November 17th based on what’s in the best interests of

the children of Massachusetts.

What are our students and educators saying about PARCC?

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MA Educators Helped Design PARCCDevelop Test Design

• ESE staff involved in the initial test design and subsequent revisions.

Item Review

• Approximately 50 Massachusetts educators and ESE staff participated in item reviews

• In addition, 13 Massachusetts educators and ESE staff participated in PARCC’s Bias and Sensitivity Committees

Test Construction

• After a bank of items is developed and field-tested, ESE staff participate in analysis of the data and test construction.

Scoring and Reporting

• 21 Massachusetts educators from elementary through higher education, along with ESE staff, attended PARCC performance level setting meetings in summer 2015.

• ESE staff work closely with PARCC Inc./contractor on scoring and reporting processes


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Principals think that PARCC will be similar to or better than MCAS

71% think that PARCC will be more demanding; 1% think it will be less demanding

40% think it will better assess students’ ability to think critically; 30% “about the same”

40% think it will present test material in a format relevant to today’s students; 25% “about the same”

Many reported “unsure” (~25% to 40% of respondents)

Note: from October 2014


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Teachers think the quality of PARCC is higher than MCAS

72% of MA teachers think that PARCC is a higher quality assessment than MCAS

67% of MA teachers think that PARCC does extremely or very well at measuring critical thinking skills

Similar results in other states

Source: TeachPlus teacher survey


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Administrators reported thatstudents had sufficient time to finish

Percent reporting that students completed very early or on time

Computer test Paper test

Performance-based assessment

86% 75%

End-of-year assessment

93% 81%


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Students reported that the content is familiar, and they had sufficient time to finish

Students report that few or none of the questions ask about things they had not learned in school this year (82% ELA, 79% math)

Many say that the test was easier than or the same as their school work (62% ELA, 52% math)

Almost all say they finished very early or on time (92% ELA, 92% math)

A quarter said they had a technology problem during the test (24% ELA, 25% math)

Recall, student survey questions were asked only of those students taking the computer-based test.


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Studies IncludedStudy Data collection date Sample

Stand for Children principal survey (by MassInc)

October 2014 285 principals

TeachPlus teacher survey Fall 2014 1,014 teachers, including 351 Massachusetts teachers

PARCC student operational computer-based test surveys

Spring 2015 ELA: 127,410 studentsMath: 127,621 students

PARCC test administrator operational test survey

Spring 2015 PBA EOY

Computer 693 752

Paper 662 449

Reporting the PARCC Results from Spring 2015


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When will PARCC results be available?

October 19th •Overall state results

Week of October 26th

•District preview of embargoed student, school, and district results

Week of November 9th

•Public release of school and district level results

December •Parent/guardian reports (Individual student reports)


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How will results be delivered?

Press release

• Files in Dropbox Central• Rosters in Edwin Analytics

Link to Excel report on ESE website

(not built into Profiles)

Printed and mailed to districts


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PARCC has five achievement levels

•Exceeded expectationsLevel 5•Met expectationsLevel 4•Approached expectationsLevel 3•Partially met expectationsLevel 2•Did not yet meet expectationsLevel 1


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Our district’s PARCC data

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 4/5 CPI SGP

Your District

State

[Use this format to plug in your data, or use print-outs/projection of the PARCC data report released publicly on ESE’s website.]

AchievementLevels Growth

AchievementSummary


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MCAS/PARCC reporting:similarities and differences

There is no achievement level called “Proficient” on PARCC, but level 4 represents the point at which students have “met expectations”

For comparing the difficulty of MCAS versus the difficulty of PARCC, we advocate comparing “Proficient” to “Levels 4 and 5”

For comparing results across years, use transitional CPI

For measuring growth, use the PARCC SGP. It can be interpreted the same way as MCAS SGP

You can compare to other schools in MA, and to other states in the PARCC consortium


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How can I use the PARCC results?

Use the district, school, and student level results to identify strengths and weaknesses

Identify interventions for students Use them as you’ve typically used MCAS scores, to

the extent possible: as one piece of valuable information among many others


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Instructional Resources to Improve Teaching and Learning

PARCC’s “Partnership Resource Center” includes: Released items

Student work Annotations from scorers on rubrics

Formative Instructional tasks (K-2) Speaking and listening tools Technology readiness tool Professional learning modules Digital library

parccresources.org

http://www.parccresources.org/


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Will PARCC results be used for 2015 accountability?

Accountability levels for those districts and schools that took PARCC cannot decline (they are held harmless)

Progress and Performance Index scores (PPI) will be calculated this year for the sake of continuity and for accountability determinations in future years


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Will PARCC results be used for Educator Impact Ratings?

Median Student Growth Percentiles for PARCC can be interpreted in the same way as median SGPs for MCAS

If an educator’s PARCC SGP is less than last year’s MCAS SGP, then the evaluator will not count the PARCC SGP

Always remember that SGPs, whether they are from PARCC or MCAS, are just one data point among many in the educator impact rating

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