PARCC Assessment

Designby

LaConti S. Bryant

Learning Intention(s)

• Examine our instructional practices as it pertains to preparing students for weekly, common, and state assessments.

• Discuss and create our next weeks assessments using the PARCC framework using the resources already available.

Purposes of PARCC1.Determine whether students are college- and career-ready or on track

2.Compare performance across states and internationally.

3.Assess the full range of the Common Core Standards, including standards that are difficult to measure

4.Measure the full range of student performance, including the performance of high and low performing students

5.Provide data during the academic year to inform instruction, interventions and professional development

6.Provide data for accountability, including measures of growth

7.Incorporate innovative approaches throughout the system

About Me…Raised in New Orleans.

Served 5 years in the military as a paralegal.

Lived in Germany for two years.

Been a certified educator for over 10 years. I have taught every grade in elementary school at least once and have served in a dual role as an instructional coach and classroom teacher.

Have several certifications and degrees.Degrees:AA in General StudiesBS in PsychologyM.Ed in Curriculum and InstructionEd.S in Educational LeadershipED.D (in process) in Educational Leadership

Certified in Colorado, Texas, and Virginia in the following areas: Early Childhood Education, ECE-4th grade, ECE-6th grade, English as a Second Language (ECE-6 and ECE-12), and School Administration/Principal’s Certification, Reading Specialist (in process).

Currently, serve as a peer reviewer for a journal.

Research Why do we do what we do?It is important that instructional design and delivery meet in order to ensure that students are taught the necessary skills to be successful.

Quality professional development:• Positively impacts both educators’ instructional practices and student

learning (Borko, 2004; Darling-Hammond, 2000; Musanti & Pence, 2010).

• No Child Left Behind stipulates that professional learning is an integral

part of the instructional day, or embedded into the educator workday (USDOE, 2005).

• Professional learning is a process that builds educator capacity and positively impacts student achievement within structured learning communities that are focused on continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment (Learning Forward, 2011)

• Our counterparts spend more than approximately 30% to 50% of their day engrossed in embedded professional learning.

• In the United States, educators spend a “Total of 1080 hours

instruction students yearly compared to 803 for primary schools and 664 a year for upper secondary schools” (Darling-Hammond et. al, 2009, p.15).

• In addition, each country spends 15-20 hours each week

collaborating compared the United States three to five hours per week (Darling-Hammond et al., 2009, Wei et al, 2009).

• Each country has reinvigorated professional development to

build capacity in its teaching force (Darling-Hammond et al., 2009).

Sample PARCC QuestionsLiteracy

PARCC Sample QuestionMiss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster (4th)

Part AWhat is the meaning of the word gigantic as it is used in paragraph 1, page of 25?

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Part BWhich detail from the story helps the reader understand the meaning of the word gigantic ?

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PARCC Sample QuestionRanita: The Frog Princess (5th)

Part A.

Read the sentence f rom paragraph 5, page 569.

Find it or I will f eed you to the jaguars—starting with my bumbling servant?

What does bumbling means as it is used in this sentence?

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Part B.

Which detail f rom the story provides the best clue f or the meaning of the word

bumbling?

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Teach the expectations for students pertaining to this particular question.What is the question asking students to do?Do we need to intentionally teach Academic Language? If so, what does that look like?

Reflective QuestionHow is it beneficial that students understand this?How do these two questions differ from one grade to the next?

Sample Questions

PARCC Sample QuestionMiss Alaineus: A Vocabulary

Disaster (4th)Part A.In “Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster,” what can be learned about Miss Alaineus from her statement, “When I got off the bus I slumped home?”________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part B.What detail supports the answer to Part A?________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PARCC Sample QuestionExploring the Undersea Territory (4th)

Part A.In the story from “Exploring the Undersea Territory,” how do paragraphs 1 and 2 contribute to the overall structure of the story.________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part B. Which detail from the story best supports the answer to Part A?________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PARCC Sample QuestionMiss Alaineus: A Vocabulary

Disaster (5th)Part A. The author of the story “Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster ” uses different structural elements than the author of the story “The Talent Contest.”

Which structural element is found only in the story?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part B.Which evidence from the story supports the answer to Part A?____________________________________________________________________________________

Combining PARCC and Treasures (4th)

Exploring the Undersea TerritoryPart A. How did Sylvie Earle earn the nickname “Her Deepness”?________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part B. Which paragraph from the story supports the answer to Part A?________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part A.Based on “Exploring the Undersea Territory” and Back In Time with Spanish Explorers”, what generalizations can you make about explorers both past and present?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part B.Which paragraph from the story supports the answer to Part A?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Combining PARCC and Treasures (5th)

Part A. Look back at “The Talent Contest” on page 18-19. How is Danny’s experience similar to Sage’s? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Part B. Which details support the answer to Part A. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does the phrase “there was gold in this mistake” means as it is used in paragraph 1, page 38.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Which detail(s) from the story helps the reader understand the meaning of the phrase “there was gold in this mistake”?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sample PARCC QuestionsMath (4th Grade/ 5th Grade)

Avery is 6 years old. George is 5 times as old as Mike. Create and equation to show how to find Joe’s age?________________________________________________________________________________________________________

City Wide Science FairGrade Number of Science Fair

Projects

6 525

7 619

8 842

Part A.The science fair projects are set up on tables. There are 125 long table used. Each table holds 9 projects. The rest of the projects are set up on short tables. Each short table can hold 5 projects. What is the fewest number of short tables that will be needed for the rest of the projects?

Part BThe science fair judges will be science teacher and volunteers. Each judge will only have time to view 6 science fair projects. There are 157 science teachers. What is the fewest number of volunteers need to have enough judges far all the projects?

What expectations can be set up for this type of math problem?Can this be something attached to a Math response journal?

How can I incorporate PARCC everyday?

Reading /Math• Response Journals• Creating small group PARCC questions with

leveled books.• Develop whole group questions for student to do

daily. (I typically do one or two questions a day).• When ready, students can develop a “Test

Question Bank” to design their own assessments. • Use Socrative.com to create assessments so

students can become familiar taking online assessments.