7/2/2013 1 Get Prepared Now for the PARCC/ Smarter Balanced Assessments National Charter Schools Conference Washington, DC July 2, 2013 Maggie Bello Principal Two Rivers PCS Naomi DeVeaux, M.Ed. Deputy Director DC Public Charter School Board Michon Floyd Director of District PD & Assessment Center City PCS Cynthia Millinger, M.Ed. Founder & CEO Charter School Essentials Please write down your definition of: Performance-based assessment Performance task Please turn and talk to your neighbor: How are they the same? How are they different? What Is a Performance Assessment?
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Get Prepared Now for the PARCC/ Smarter Balanced Assessments
National Charter Schools Conference Washington, DC
July 2, 2013
Maggie Bello Principal Two Rivers PCS
Naomi DeVeaux, M.Ed. Deputy Director DC Public Charter School Board
Michon Floyd Director of District PD & Assessment Center City PCS
Cynthia Millinger, M.Ed. Founder & CEO Charter School Essentials
Please write down your definition of:
Performance-based assessment
Performance task
Please turn and talk to your neighbor:
How are they the same?
How are they different?
What Is a Performance Assessment?
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An assessment based on observation and judgment. Students engage in an activity that requires them to apply a performance skill or create a product and we judge its quality.
Has two parts: a task and a scoring guide
From Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right – Using it Well, Stiggins, Arter, Chappuis, and Chappuis
Performance Task Assessments
Art: Paint a picture or make a sculpture
Reasoning and persuasive writing: Imagine that it is 1858 and you make a special trip to hear Lincoln and Douglas debating during their campaigns for the Senate. Write an essay in which you explain the most important ideas and issues.
Science: Carry out the steps in the scientific method.
Collaboration: Work productively in a group on a task
Performance Task Examples
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To assess performance skills targets such as how to effectively conduct a job interview, how to represent the relationship between division and multiplication, and giving an oral presentation
Assessing knowledge targets such as part of a plant or important history facts, is not a good match for performance tasks
When to Use Performance Tasks
Getting to Know the PARCC & Smarter Balanced
Assessments
Cynthia Millinger
Founder & CEO
Charter School Essentials
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www.parcconline.org
www.smarterbalanced.org
PARCC: Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
Choose one word that describes Miyax based on evidence from the text. There is more than one correct choice listed below.
A. reckless
B. lively
C. imaginative*
D. observant*
E. impatient
F. confident
Part B
Find a sentence in the passage with details that support your response to Part A. Click on that sentence and drag and drop it into the box below.
Part C
Find a second sentence in the passage with details that support your response to Part A. Click on that sentence and drag and drop it into the box below.
Smarter Balanced Brief Write with Text Evidence Grade 6
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PARCC Prose Constructed-Response Item Grade 10
Use what you have learned from reading “Daedalus and Icarus” by Ovid and “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph” by Anne Sexton to write an essay that provides an analysis of how Sexton transforms Daedalus and Icarus.
As a starting point, you may want to consider what is emphasized, absent, or different in the two texts, but feel free to develop your own focus for analysis.
Develop your essay by providing textual evidence from both texts. Be sure to follow the conventions of standard English.
Smarter Balanced Performance Task: Introduction to Activity
Authorizers Are Responsible to Make Sure That Schools Are:
Educating students to read, write, do math,
and learn other academic content at high levels
Following the state and federal law, including
IDEA for students with disabilities
Attaining their stated mission
Achieving their charter goals
The Charter Agreement
Greater Autonomy for Higher Accountability
In order for the authorizer to advocate for and
protect charter autonomy, schools must achieve
high results, including on state assessments that
will very soon be measuring student mastery of
Common Core State Standards.
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Assessment and Accountability--Defined
Assessments are the tools that directly
measure student mastery of the standards.
Accountability is the responsibility charter
schools have to educate their students and
report their progress to the authorizer and
public in exchange for their increased
autonomy.
First and foremost, you are a school and your promise to your families is to teach students how to read and write in English, and do math.
A common state assessment is the only measure the public has to compare schools serving similar grades.
How you do this is up to you, that you do this is what is important to an authorizer.
The Role of a State Assessments in Accountability
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Your Curriculum
PARCC/Smarter
Balance:(how heavily is a
given standard assessed and
how) Mission-related (students
must have this skill to be
successful in life) Essential
Curriculum
All School’s Standards
ELA Math Science Social
Studies Mission Philosophy
PARCC/Smarter
Balance
Grade Level
and/or Subject
Area
Teaching to the test: For those who have been teaching to a basic-skills and knowledge test—spending major time on test-prep, without significant thought about the standards behind the test — will have to do some serious heavy lifting and may not be ready…
Teaching the standards: Those who are currently assessing students using items that are aligned to the performance-based examples we have shown you today, are on track to be prepared.
Critical Thinking Versus Test-Prep
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We do what we measure—the authorizer and the State plays a role in defining this
DC’s charter school Performance Management Framework (PMF) emphasizes student grade-level attainment and annual growth.
The test we use is the state assessment and we plan to use PARCC or Smarter Balance, when they are in place.
We also take into consideration persistency and attendance rates.