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PARCC & An Overview of our Instructional Uses of Technology;

Next Generation of Assessments

Presented by:

Eric Schaefer; Sr. Network Administrator &

Laura Porcaro; Instructional Supervisor of Academic Achievement, Performance Excellence & Technology

PARCC ASSESSMENTS

PARTNERSHIP FOR ASSESSMENT OF

READINESS FOR COLLEGE AND CAREERS

A consortium of 19 states working together to

develop a common set of K-12 assessments to

prepare students to be college and career

ready.

Next Generation Assessments leverage

advances in technology for greater efficiency,

flexibility and potential cost savings

FIELD TEST

In spring 2014, the PARCC Field Test will be administered to

over one million students across PARCC states

School Name

Grade/Cou

rse

Subject

Area

Number of

Classes

Mode of

Admin. Component

Number of

Sessions1

CENTRAL 7 ELA 2 Online PBA 3

STONY BROOK 4 ELA 2 Online PBA 3

• What is the purpose of the PARCC Field Test?

• Examine the quality of assessment forms

• Pilot assessment procedures for staff and students

• Give schools the opportunity to experience the administration of PARCC assessments

Assessment Component 2014 Administration Dates

Performance-Based Assessment (PBA) March 24 to April 11

End-of-Year Assessment (EOY) May 5 to June 6

WHAT DOES PARCC TELL US?

• Determines whether students are college and career-ready or on track

• Assesses the full range of the Common Core Standards and measures student performance.

• Provides data during the academic year to inform instruction

• Provides data for accountability, including measures of growth

• Incorporates innovative approaches throughout the assessment system

• Compares assessment results using the same tests at each grade level

GOALS FOR INSTRUCTION TO BE AT PARCC STANDARDS

• Increase student learning and achievement

• Increase devices and broaden use of technologies

• Ease of access to devices and resources

• Improved record management

• Administrative communications and management activities

• Produce readable and measurable student achievement results

• Ongoing Professional Development

• Increase technology instruction in the classroom

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES AND ACCOMMODATIONS

The Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual details a three-tiered process to providing access to the assessments for all students:

Features for All Students: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system available to all students to use (e.g. font magnification, highlighting tool, bolding, underlining)

Accessibility Features*: Tools embedded in the computer-delivered system open to all students to use, but must be made available at the discretion of school-based educators (e.g. background/font color, answer masking)

Accommodations: Supports for SWD and ELs that increase access while maintaining a valid and reliable score (e.g. braille form, extended time, small group testing, word-to-word native language dictionary)

BLENDED LEARNING

Blended learning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control over time, place, path or pace. Face-to-face classroom methods are combined with computer-mediated activities.

ADAPTIVE LEARNING

Adaptive learning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adaptive learning is an educational method which uses computers as interactive teaching devices. Computers adapt the presentation of educational material according to students' learning needs, as indicated by their responses to questions and tasks.

GIZMOS

Grades 3-8

Math and science

Encourages inquiry and exploration

http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?me

thod=cVideos.dspVideo&id=2

CREATING FLIPPED TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES:

As defined by Wikapedia, flipped teaching is a

form of blended learning in which students

learn new content online by watching video

lectures, usually at home, and what used to be

homework is now done in class with the

teacher offering more personalized guidance

and interaction with students, instead of

lecturing.

ODYSSEY

An assessment and tutorial system

Is adaptive

Aligned to common core standards

Identifies where students are in terms of mastery of common core standards

Provides a differentiated path for learning for each student

Provides teachers and administrators with reports that track individual student progress as well as whole class progress

http://www.compasslearning.com/videos/sales-demo.htm

ESPARK

Assigns iPad apps for students in response to

their assessment data

Train teachers to utilize a teacher dashboard to

track student progress in alignment with the

common core standards using the apps.

http://esparklearning.com/what-is-espark/

GLOGSTER

Allows students and teachers to create

multimedia posters, photos, videos and

drawings

A creative forum for presentation

http://jerseyteach.edu.glogster.com/sir-francis-

drake-3403/

HARPERA

A dashboard that allows teachers to connect

and efficiently utilize Google apps with

students

http://hapara.com/

TEACHERS EXPLORING FOR PROGRESS:

Blendspace

Gooru Learning

Google Blogger

Google News

Web Quests

An Hour of Code

http://code.org/