Getting to the Core with Common Core

Mrs. Stephanie Paige Hubbard

Testing FormatPerformance Based Assessment End-of-Year Assessment

*Test will be taken in March *Test will be taken in May

Three Item Types: * Evidence Based selected response- Traditional multiple choice questions with a second selected-response question that ask students to show evidence from the text.*Technology Enhanced Constructed Response- use technology to answer question.*Prose Constructed Responses- Elicits evidence that students have understood a text (essay question).

Two Item Types: * Evidence Based selected response- Traditional multiple choice questions with a second selected-response question that ask students to show evidence from the text.*Technology Enhanced Constructed Response- use technology to answer question.

Taken from PARCC/Literacy Sample & MDE

Testing FormatLiterary Analysis Task Narrative Task Research Simulation Task

•Students read literature

•Students answer EBSR and TECR questions

•Students compose an analytic essay

*Students read literature or informational text

*Students answer EBSR and TECR questions

*Narrative writing conveys experiences, both real and imagined.

*Students may write a story detail scientific process, etc.

*Students analyze articles or multimedia stimuli on an informational topic

*Students answer a series of EBSR and TECR questions, leading to final essay.

*Students synthesize information to write analytical essays.

March Assessment

Taken from PARCC/Literacy Sample & MDE

Testing FormatEnd-of-Year Assessment

•Students read complex information or literary texts on grade level with a variety of complexities.

•Students answer EBSR and TECR items (1 vocabulary item per text)•Some texts may be paired passages

•No writing component

Taken from PARCC/Literacy Sample & MDE