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Audra McPhillips, from the WWPS, shares information regarding PARCC. This webinar is a repeat performance of Monday, 9.17.2012. 
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What do the results from the writing test from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), better known as the Nation’s Report Card, tell us? Students were asked to perform writing tasks in three areas:
Results
Key Points for School Leaders
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Many states plan to replace their current high school exit exams with tests being designed for the Common Core State Standards, according to a new study. And it appears that many of them will tie high school graduation decisions to those new assessments, a shift that could represent a big change in the high school completion landscape.
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State High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition, a report by by Shelby McIntosh at the Center on Education Policy in Washington, DC, USA...
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Digital Directions A new readiness tool will provide a national snapshot in preparation for common core online assessments in 2014-15.
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By Catherine Gewertz Now that South Carolina has made its choice, the only states still participating in both consortia are Alabama, Colorado, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. Five states don't belong to either group: Texas, Virginia, Nebraska, Minnesota and Alaska.
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Unable to reach consensus, one of the common assessment consortia goes back to the drawing board to define "college readiness."...
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Dr.Mark Shermis addressed a question about the possible bias of online assessment...
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BY PAM BRANNON “The students who are high-performing math students and may be entering career fields where they need a lot of math need to take Algebra I in eighth grade. That is the only way they will have time to get Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, and Calculus in before college.”
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Pictured: Larua Slover, PARCC By Jamaal Abdul-Alim Diverse Issues in Higher Education June 6, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. Testing in America’s K-12 schools is expected to change radically in the 2014-2015 school year under a new set of education standards adopted by most states, but challenges associated with implementing the still-undeveloped tests make the anticipated changes a tenuous prospect.
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Added rigor is welcomed, but lower scores sting as states roll out new tests—and brace for Common Core.
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Amid concerns about the time and expense of testing, a 25-state coalition plans to offer the choice of both a shorter and longer assessment pegged to the common-core standards. Instead of designing one test for all of them, (SBAC) will offer a choice of a longer and a shorter version. The evolving two-pronged approach would give states the option of using a version of the Smarter Balanced test whose multiple sessions and classroom activities span
or the group’s original version, which lasts about four hours longer in grades 3-8 and about five hours longer in high school.
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“When less than half of kids who want to go to college are prepared to do so, that system is failing.” - College Board President Gaston Caperton SAT reading scores hit a four-decade low As the number of students taking the SAT increases, scores slipped nationally. Poverty and Achievement There is a significant correlation between family income and test scores on the SAT, with average scores increasing with every $20,000 in additional family income.
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Some of the changes in the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment will it more difficult to achieve Average Yearly Progress. "If school officials think making adequate yearly progress was difficult this year, wait until they give state tests this school year." To make AYP, schools and school districts must meet all AYP targets in all subgroups of at least 40 students.
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The harm of local grading in a world of standards: what NAEP reveals (Thoughtlessness part 4) By Grant Wiggins "Once again the recently released NAEP results reveal that American student achievement in writing is far worse than local report cards would have us believe. If the new assessments for Common Core are going to be as demanding as NAEP tests are – a likely bet – then we have a disaster in the making: scores are going to be bad and there is going to be hell to pay politically (since NAEP is not district-level reported and typically flies below the layperson radar)."
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National goals to produce more college graduates may have influenced the shift, says a report from a policy center at George Washington University. "growing recognition that we are sending too many students into postsecondary education unprepared."
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The ACT will be the first digital, longitudinal assessment system to fully connect student performance from early elementary to high school, helping students know exactly where they are and providing insights on how to build on strengths and address weaknesses, both in and out of the classroom. The system will be linked to ACT's industry-leading College Readiness Standards(TM) and Benchmarks.
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City and state officials have promised that new curriculum standards, known as the Common Core, would de-emphasize rote learning in favor of critical thinking.
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Assessment Policy, Development and Administration, New York State Common Core Aligned Sample Questions...
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By Larry Cuban The path of educational progress more closely resembles the flight of a butterfly than the flight of a bullet.
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By Annie Murphy Paul Time June 6, 2012 While the anti-testing movement gains steam, let's not deprive our children of a valuable tool for learning...
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