Postsecondary Engagement in PARCC The College Board Annual Forum - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Postsecondary Engagement in PARCC The College Board Annual Forum New York City October 23, 2013 Allison Jones, Vice President, Postsecondary Collaboration

Objectives for this Session • Identify how the Common Core State Standards and aligned PARCC assessments advance college readiness and completion Common Core State Standards • Establish the role of state postsecondary educators, faculty, policy makers and institution leaders in PARCC Definition of PARCC College and Next • Career Describe how PARCC scores will be Generation Readiness Assessment validated as indicators of college readiness at postsecondary campuses • Discuss strategies for incorporating PARCC scores into postsecondary placement policies 3

The College Readiness Disconnect 4

Academic Preparation and Expectations Gap The knowledge and skills What students are typically expected to know at the end demanded by postsecondary of high school, as defined by and employers for successful ≠ state standards, required first-year students and new curriculum and assessments employees. RESULT In many states, students can earn a high school diploma without the skills necessary for success in college and careers resulting in high remediation rates. 5

PARCC States’ College -Ready Benchmarks ACT SAT PARCC STATES PARCC STATES ACT SAT Low High Median Low High Median CRITICAL READING (SAT)/ 400 600 18 500 17 21 19 ENGLISH (ACT) 450/500 MATH (SAT)/ COLLEGE ALGEBRA (ACT) 22 500 16 22 19 400 600 460/500 Source: SAT: The College Board, Wayne Camara, Vice President Research and Development. 65% probability FTF earn 2.7 (B-) or higher. ACT: Issues in College Readiness, 2010. 50% probability of B or better; 75%, C or better. PARCC: PARCC State responses to Remediation Policies, HE 01-11, January 6, 2011 6

Why Higher Standards and New Assessments Now ? By the year 2020, 65% of all jobs will require some postsecondary education or training. To ensure future economic sustainability, we must prepare all students to access postsecondary opportunities:  The PARCC assessment system will  Our K – 12 system is not impact 23 million students. 9 million of adequately preparing these students attend Title I schools. students for college  CCSS and PARCC have the potential to 1/3 of substantially improve educational equity, college postsecondary opportunity, and freshmen need remedial economic mobility if implemented with courses fidelity by K-12 and embraced by postsecondary institutions . 7

The Goal: College Access and Success • Identify a set of core competencies that represent a baseline of college-and career-ready academic standards (CCCSS) • Develop an innovative assessment system aligned to the standards: – to help ensure new standards reach every classroom – to provide clear signals to educators, parents and students about college readiness prior to high school graduation • Establish a College- and Career-Ready Determination accepted and used by postsecondary faculty and administrators that guarantees student placement into entry-level, credit-bearing college courses without the need for remediation. • Provide early interventions , tools and transition courses to ensure students meet postsecondary goals . 8

PARCC: A Better Way of Measuring What Students Know and Can Do • 19 states • 15 million students in tested grades • Aligned to the Common Core State Standards • 2013 – 14 field testing • 2014 – 15 implementation 9

The Common Core State Standards Identify a Set of Core Competencies that Represent A Baseline for College and Career Readiness 10

Key Advances of the Common Core ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATHEMATICS ARTS/LITERACY Focus, coherence and clarity: emphasis on Balance of literature and informational key topics at each grade level and coherent texts; focus on text complexity progression across grades Balance between procedural fluency and Emphasis on argument, informative/ understanding of concepts and skills explanatory writing, and research Promote rigor through mathematical Literacy standards for history, science and proficiencies that foster reasoning and technical subjects understanding across discipline ANCHORED IN COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS 11

Claims Driving Design: ELA/Literacy Students are on-track or ready for college and careers Students Students write Students read and comprehend a build and effectively when using range of sufficiently complex texts present and/or analyzing independently sources. knowledge through research and the integration, Conventions Reading Vocabulary Written Reading and comparison, Informational Interpretation Literature Expression Knowledge of Text and Use and synthesis Language of ideas. 12

Important to Higher Education Faculty: ELA and Literacy Standards • Colleges and universities require students to – – Analyze complex text – Conduct research and apply that research to solve problems or address a particular issue – Identify areas for research, narrow those topics and adjust research methodology as necessary, and evaluate and synthesize primary and secondary resources as they develop and defend their own conclusions • Standards require students to – – Conduct short, focused projects and longer term in-depth research – Identify and analyze credible information – Communicate research findings both verbally and in writing 13

Claims Driving Design: Mathematics Students are on-track or ready for college and careers Students solve problems Students solve problems Students express involving the major involving the additional mathematical reasoning content for their grade and supporting content by constructing level with connections to for their grade level with mathematical arguments practices connections to practices and critiques Students solve real Student demonstrate world problems fluency in areas set forth engaging particularly in in the Standards for the modeling practice Content in grades 3-6 14

Important to Higher Education Faculty: High School Mathematics Standards • The high school mathematics standards: – Identify the mathematics that all students should study in order to be college and career ready – Emphasize mathematical modeling and the use of mathematics and statistics • To analyze empirical situations, • Understand them better, and • Improve decisions • The standards require students to: – Apply mathematical ways of thinking to real world issues and challenges – Develop a depth of understanding and ability to apply mathematics to novel situations 15

The Common Core State Standards Require New Aligned Assessments  The Common Core State Standards were developed collaboratively by K-12 and postsecondary content experts and faculty to establish standards of college readiness  Higher education partners in PARCC — nearly 200 institutions and systems covering over 850 campuses across the country — committed to work with K-12 partners to develop assessments aligned to these standards and set a college-ready cut score that will be used to place incoming freshman into credit-bearing college courses 16

Developing the PARCC Assessments: The Role of Postsecondary Faculty, Leaders and Policy Makers 17

PARCC Priorities 1. Determine whether students are college and career ready or on track 2. Aligned to the Common Core State Standards 3. Measure the full range of student performance, including that of high- and low-achieving students 4. Provide educators with timely data 5. Create innovative 21st century, technology-based assessments 6. Be affordable and sustainable 7. Provide comparable data from school-to-school and state- to-state 18

What is Different About PARCC’ s Development Process? • PARCC states first developed the Model Content Frameworks to provide guidance on key elements of excellent instruction aligned with the Standards. • Then, those Frameworks informed the assessment blueprint design. • Aligned evidence statements and task models followed. So… • PARCC is designing the assessments around exactly the same content shifts the standards expect of teachers and students. • PARCC is communicating in the same voice to teachers as it is to assessment developers 19

Item Development • Item development began in fall 2012 • Item and passage reviews take place regularly, with teams of reviewers: o K-12 content experts o Higher education faculty o Local educators o Community members • Item development is on schedule, and the vendors will meet the benchmark to complete all items for field testing. 20

State Led Design and Development State led engagement State developed process: Higher college-ready Education and standards K12 K-12 and postsecondary State-developed State educator PARCC College and and content Career Readiness Assessments Determination expert led test developed by the and on-track development measures states for the states Educators in the PARCC consortium can trust that test items reflect the Common Core State Standards and the quality expectations of teachers in their states 21