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common CCSSI PARCC assessments

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    very detailed information on RFI for using Artificial Intelligence capabilities in the new CCSSI assessments
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Education Week: Districts Gear Up for Shift to Informational Texts - 2 views

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  • choose books about those real-world topics as part of a unit on truth. Students are dissecting the sources, statistics, and anecdotes the authors use to make their arguments
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      anonymous on 19 Mar 12
       
      Notice how the emphasis is on "dissecting" the information in the text, not necessarily on the text itself as a "good example" of informational text. It's more about getting students to be critical consumers of the "truthfulness" of the author's message based on quality resources to back up the author's viewpoint. Excellent point about what "close reading of the text really is!"
  • Often, our nod to nonfiction is the autobiography or true-story version of something,"
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  • But there's a real gap in other kinds of nonfiction
  • I'm relying on different kinds of strategies and a lot more explicit teaching,
  • We spend a lot of time talking about attributes of nonfiction, like how to read an interview. Or how to tell the difference between fact and opinion."
  • Using fiction has many positive and useful values, and it shouldn't be lost or pushed so far to the sidelines that it disappears."
  • The common standards' emphasis on informational text arose in part from research suggesting that employers and college instructors found students weak at comprehending technical manuals, scientific and historical journals, and other texts pivotal to their work in those arenas.
  • The common core's vision of informational text includes literary nonfiction, as well as historical documents, scientific journals and technical manuals, biographies and autobiographies, essays, speeches, and information displayed in charts, graphs, or maps, digitally or in print.
  • vocabulary
  • professional development aimed at helping teachers think through how to craft instructional units and tasks reflecting the shift in the standards
  • district set up a digital "common-core library" that includes 13 "bundles" of sample activities, lesson plans, and other resources for instruction based on informational text
  • The immediate challenge of the informational-text emphasis, however, lies more in training than in materials,
  • [it's] actually figuring out how to structure classrooms so we speak to text and kids are using text in conversations with each other and are grappling with the meaning of text.
  • we need to make sure that by the end of high school, students are reading science journals,
  • right now, just simply the act of reading the science textbook and absolutely making the textbook—rather than the teacher—generate the answers.
  • It's one thing to tell school districts that we must do close reading of informational text," he said. "It's very different to say, 'Here is what's involved with a close reading.' "
  • Treasures does include some informational text, "but not sufficiently, we would say. We wanted something that would supplement that."
  • elementary reading coaches have met with Nell K. Duke, the Michigan State University professor who wrote Buzz About IT, and are meeting monthly to study her research, Ms. Acquavita said
  • Funding for materials and professional development that reflect the standards could prove to be an issue for states, and, as a result, for companies that produce them
  • We have been unpleasantly surprised that a number of states are only now starting to wrestle with the cost of this,
  • New criteria for adoptions of basal instructional materials for the bridge year, approved by the state in January, specify that materials must include "high-quality, complex informational text" in the ratios specified by the standards.
  • Its statewide literacy plan delves into explanations of six major shifts in the English/language arts standards, and the state has also produced an online "toolkit" offering teachers instructional videos and other resources on those shifts.
  • The biggest concern state officials are hearing from teachers is that they be assured of having adequate lesson plans, curriculum maps, and other resources to teach the standards once that begins in 2012-13
  • o convey its expectations for new materials, the state has hosted a webinar for publishers, pointing them to the "publishers' criteria" developed by the common-standards writers for grades K-2 and 3-12, which describe what is required for materials to align well with the standards.
  • anonymous on 19 Mar 12
     
    information text- actions by districts to prepare for CCSS changes
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Consortia Provide Preview of Common Assessments - 4 views

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common core CCSSI standards assessments CCSS

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  • sample items being drafted for those exams offer early ideas of what lies ahead.
  • “What we are starting to see here are tests that really get at a deeper understanding on the part of students, not just superficial knowledge,” said Robert L. Linn, an assessment expert and professor emeritus of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder who reviewed a sampling of the consortia’s materials.
  • Mr. Linn predicted that even with sample items to guide them, vendors will find it tough to develop tasks and questions that fully reflect the aims of the two state groups
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  • “Where the real difficulty comes up is when you actually develop the items,” he said. “It will be a challenge for vendors to come up with items that meet these specifications. They are used to writing items for state tests that do not get at this depth of knowledge.”
  • Comprehension, Not Guesswork
  • “To perform well on these kinds of assessment items, just having good test-taking skills will not be enough of an edge to perform well,” said Mr. Kaase, who now runs a Jackson-based consulting company that works with states and districts on testing, curriculum, and accountability issues.
  • Materials developed by PARCC, too, illustrate for vendors item types that require a grasp of the topic, said Mr. Kaase. One, for instance, asks 4th graders to plot the following numbers along a number line: 2, 5/4, 3x1/2, 3/4+3/4, and 2-1/10.
  • “You have to understand the meaning of the numbers and how they relate in order to answer this,” Mr. Kaase said.
  • Mr. Pack, who is a teacher-leader for PARCC, helping colleagues deepen their knowledge of the group’s work. “I was a little concerned at first blush, because they’re really complex. But they’re good math problems. They’re above the level of what we’re currently doing, but they’re attainable.”
  • He pointed to one illustrative example in PARCC’s materials that tries to gauge students’ fluency in division and multiplication. It offers five equations, such as 54÷9=24÷6, and asks 3rd graders to specify whether each is true or false.
  • “I like that it does multiple assessments in one item,” he said. “It asks kids to work each of those problems easily and be comfortable with it, which is what fluency is.”
  • PARCC expects to release sample items in English/language arts and math later this month, including prototypes developed under contract with the Institute for Learning at the University of Pittsburgh and the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Many milestones lie ahead before the consortia can deliver fully populated banks of test items. In the coming months, both groups will conduct sessions in which items are tried out with students and their feedback is obtained. Smarter
  • Both consortia will conduct trials next year before full-fledged field tests in spring 2014.
  • Even as sample items are crafted to help guide vendors on item-writing, the consortia and their partners caution that the item-development process is lengthy and full of revisions.
  • Jeffrey Nellhaus, PARCC’s assessment director, said he was acutely aware that the “field is hungry to see” how the goals of the common standards will be “made manifest” in assessment items, and is eager to examine the prototype items the consortium will get from the two research universities.
  • As officials from the Dana Center cautioned in an overview of the PARCC project, “Prototyping is for learning, and it can be messy.”
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Mathematics Deconstructed Standards-Kentucky DOE - 4 views

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    Templates of the new common core Math standards for alignment work in districts
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English Language Arts Deconstructed Standards- Kentucky DOE - 3 views

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    Templates of the new common core ELA standards for alignment work in districts
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Math Progressions docs page-The University of Arizona - Institute for Mathematics & Edu... - 3 views

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CCR common core standards CCSSI mathematics career college state curriculum progressions CCSS

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    Math Progressions Documents with lots of details and examples.
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