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Assessment Opinion The Assessment Consortia: Field-Test Blues?
The field tests have provoked enthusiasm and anxiety, but they can point to better testing in 2015.
Contributing Blogger, May 21, 2014
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Education Funding News in Brief PARCC Group Lowers Price of Common-Core Tests
The PARCC testing consortium has announced that it has lowered the price of its common-core assessments by more than $5 per student.
Catherine Gewertz, May 13, 2014
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Diana Marcus, a 5th grade teacher and president of Burlington Educators Association, sets up the computer lab at the Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Mass., where teachers from the Burlington school district sampled the PARCC field test. The field tests for PARCC and Smarter Balanced began in March, marking an assessment experiment of unprecedented scope.
Diana Marcus, a 5th grade teacher and president of Burlington Educators Association, sets up the computer lab at the Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Mass., where teachers from the Burlington school district sampled the PARCC field test. The field tests for PARCC and Smarter Balanced began in March, marking an assessment experiment of unprecedented scope.
Gretchen Ertl for Education Week
Assessment Photo Essay A Lens on PARCC Field-Testing
Boston-based photographer Gretchen Ertl documented how the Burlington, Mass., school district was preparing for PARCC field-testing.
Education Week Photo Staff, May 8, 2014
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Assessment PARCC Consortium Lowers Price of Common-Core Tests
The revised cost means that the PARCC tests are now more affordable for most of its state members than the tests they're currently using.
Catherine Gewertz, May 2, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion My Reaction to the PARCC & SBAC Responses
The past couple days I've run pieces by PARCC's Jeff Nellhaus and SBAC's Joe Wilhoft that helped illuminate how their consortia are going to address some key challenges when it comes to making sure that the new Common Core tests can carry the load they're being asked to bear. I found the exchange somewhat heartening, after years during which my questions had been genially (and sometimes not so genially) brushed aside. Having read the responses by Jeff and Joe, I have a few additional queries.
Rick Hess, May 1, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion PARCC Offers 'Three Answers to Rick Hess's Questions'
A few weeks ago, I asked three questions about how confident we should be that the results of the new, quasi-national, computer-assisted Common Core tests will be valid and reliable enough to support stuff like teacher evaluation and school accountability. Today I'll be publishing a response from PARCC's Jeff Nellhaus.
Rick Hess, April 29, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Test Supports for ELLs: Differences Between PARCC and Smarter Balanced
PARCC and Smarter Balanced offer very different testing supports for English-language learners on their common-core aligned assessments.
Lesli A. Maxwell, April 24, 2014
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States Tennessee, Arne Duncan's Show Horse, Set to Delay PARCC Tests for One Year
A plan in Tennessee to delay the administration of PARCC tests by one year is heading to Gov. Bill Haslam for his signature.
Andrew Ujifusa, April 18, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Colorado Coalition Says PARCC Testing Is Not Teaching
PARCC is a new, unproven, unfunded, state and federally mandated test to be taken on computers, MULTIPLE TIMES per year. Since the inception of NCLB, we have been adding to the pile of standardized tests that our students must hurdle.
Anthony Cody, April 17, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Louisiana Officials Squabble Over Fate of PARCC Tests
As in South Carolina, Louisiana is experiencing a dispute between state officials over whether PARCC tests should be given to students.
Andrew Ujifusa, April 15, 2014
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States PARCC Membership Drops to 17
With the recent defection of Florida, membership in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers has fallen to 16 states, plus the District of Columbia, as reflected in an updated EdWeek map.
Catherine Gewertz, April 1, 2014
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Assessment Opinion The Golden Mean
The assessments developed by PARCC and Smarter Balanced may not be ideal, but they represent a major step forward in testing.
Contributing Blogger, April 1, 2014
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Three Practical Questions About PARCC & SBAC Testing
Field testing for the Common Core-aligned PARCC and Smarter Balanced is now underway, and dozens of states are preparing to make consequential decisions based on the results come next spring.  I keep getting excited e-mails about all this.  Me? I'm frustrated (and a little astonished) that, four years after the creation of the testing consortia, I still can't get meaningful answers to some practical questions about how all this is going to play out.  When I bring these up, I mostly get accused of nitpicking.
Rick Hess, March 26, 2014
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Assessment Florida Skips Over PARCC, Selecting Common-Core Test From AIR
State Commissioner Pam Stewart says Florida will go with assessments from the American Institutes of Research rather than the PARCC testing consortium.
Andrew Ujifusa, March 17, 2014
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