What are the Latest Changes to PARCC Assessments?

As educators, one of our most important responsibilities is constant assessment of student learning; this includes assessing our own evaluation instruments. We cannot ever assume our assessments perfectly measure every student learning objective, nor can we assume they are always perfectly designed.
PARCC recognizes this responsibility as well and has spent these last few months carefully reviewing the data from field tests last spring. In their effort to do what is best for students, they have issued revisions to their assessments for the 2014-2015 school year.

General Technology Revisions

Although a more detailed “Lessons Learned” report will be issued later in September 2014, PARCC’s most recent post describe some of the general changes being made to the test after reviewing field test feedback.

• Changes to the “Equation Editor” to make it clearer for students and easier to use

• Placement of the ‘Submit’ button will occur only once to avoid confusion

• Stronger validation and verification process to avoid loss of student testing work and data

• More practice will be offered to improve functionality of technology based questions

• Clearer instructions to schools on content filters to avoid problems loading videos.

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