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Moving from the What to the How
Assessing the Common Core State Standards November 7, 2011
Presentation to North Carolina Common Core State Standards Summit Angela Hinson Quick, Deputy Chief Academic Officer
Academic Services and Instructional Support
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Draft - July 13, 2011
The Assessment Challenge
How do we get from here... ...to here?
All students
leave high school
college and
career ready
Common Core
State Standards
specify K-12
expectations for
college and
career readiness
...and what can an
assessment system
do to help?
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Summative Assessments Today • Each state bears the burden of test development;
no economies of scale Each state procures its own
assessment system
• Students often leave high school unprepared to succeed in entry-level college courses
Measure proficiency against state standards, not agreed-
upon standards
• Poor measures of demonstration of skills and complex cognitive performance
Usually heavy reliance on multiple choice questions
• Tests cannot be used to inform instruction or affect program decisions
Results often delivered months after tests are given
• Difficult to interpret meaning of scores; concerns about access and fairness
Accommodations for special education and ELL students vary
• Costly, time consuming, and challenging to maintain security
Most administered on paper
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NC’s New Assessment System
• Formative
– NC FALCON
• Interim
– Benchmark assessments (State or SBAC in 2014)
– District
• Summative (State or SBAC in 2014)
– End-of-year
– Standardized
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Summative Assessments
• English Language Arts – Common Core State Standards (June 2010, SBE)
– Grades 3-8 and English II
• Mathematics – Common Core State Standards (June 2010, SBE)
– Grades 3-8 and Algebra I/Integrated I
• Science (February 2009, SBE) – Essential Standards
– Grades 5, 8 and Biology
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Time Line
• 2011-12 Field Tests
– General
– NCEXTEND2
– NCEXTEND1
• 2012-13 Operational Assessments
– Performance standards set AFTER tests administered
– Results delayed until early fall
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Delivery Formats
• Online (Paper/Pencil version) – All NCEXTEND2 (EOG and EOC)
– Science Grades 5 and 8
– English II EOC
– Biology EOC
– Algebra I EOC
• Paper/Pencil (Online version) – General ELA and Mathematics Grades 3-8
– NCEXTEND1
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Prioritization of Content Standards
• Two-Step Process
– Step 1:Teachers convened to provide input
• Relative importance of each standard
• Anticipated instructional time
• Appropriateness for multiple-choice format
– Step 2: Curriculum and Test Development staff at DPI review input and develop weight distributions across the domains for each grade level
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Item Types
• Online – Technology Enhanced Items
• Both Online and Paper/Pencil – Mathematics: gridded response items
• Grades 5-8 and Algebra I/Integrated I
– Calculator Inactive: Grades 3-8 and Algebra II/ Integrated I
– One-third to one-half of grades 3-8 – One-third of Algebra I
– English II: short constructed response – General: Four-response multiple-choice items – NCEXTEND2: Three-response multiple-choice items
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NC Assessment Specifications http://dpi.state.nc.us/acre/assessment/online/
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ACT, PLAN, and WorkKeys
• ACT: All 11th graders – Post-secondary readiness measure – March 6, 2012 (make-up date is March 20, 2012)
• PLAN: All 10th graders – Diagnostic measure not used for high stakes accountability – December 5-16, 2011
• WorkKeys – Students identified as concentrators in the senior year
• Webinars with superintendents, principals, central office staff: October 3, 5, and 6 (4:00 pm to 5:30 pm)
• http://www.act.org/aap/northcarolina/
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Components of an IIS
Standards & Curriculum
Instructional Design,
Practice, & Resources
Assessment and Growth
Data Analysis & Reporting
Professional Development
4/16/2012 • page 12
Learner Profile & Artifact
Repository
Content Standards and Curriculum
4/16/2012 • page 13
Instructional Design, Practice and Resources
4/16/2012 • page 14
Example
Assessment and Growth
4/16/2012 • page 15
Dashboards, Data Analysis and Reporting
4/16/2012 • page 16
Professional Development
4/16/2012 • page 17
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The Four Key Components of SLI
A secure, multi-tenant data store
Aspiration: Real-time feedback about where students are in their learning journey and where they need to focus next
Set of application programming interfaces
Aspiration: “Apps stores” that will give teachers and students access to the latest tools and content to help them succeed
Metadata schema
Aspiration: Faster discovery of relevant, Common Core-aligned resources
Learning maps
Aspiration: Track and predict individual student and cohort progress
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Personalized learning…how it works
Learning Map
Applications and
Assessments
Student Record
Courses and Content
Alignment
Alignment
Alignment
To Bookmark:
ACRE http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/
NC FALCON http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/falcon/
Formative Assessment http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/educators/vision/formative
Instructional Improvement System (IIS) http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/improvement/
NC Education Cloud http://cloud.fi.ncsu.edu/
NC Race to the Top http://www.ncpublicschools.org/rttt/
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http://dpi.state.nc.us/accountability/
