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