An item that asks students to show the evidence in a text that led them to a previous answer.
What is Evidence-Based Selected Response?
100
PARCC
What is Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career?
100
Writing that relates an event or series of events; a story...can be imaginative or factual.
What is narration?
100
The degree to which accumulated evidence and theory support specific interpretations of test scores.
What is validity?
100
The app that will be used for the PARCC testing on the Chromebooks.
What is TestNav?
200
An item in which students are required to produce written prose in response to a test prompt to measure reading and writing claims.
What is Prose-Constructed Response?
200
PBA
What is Performance-Based Assessment?
200
A reference in literature or visual/performing arts to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.
What is allusion?
200
The degree to which scores for a group of test takers are consistent over repeated applications of a measurement tool.
What is reliability?
200
The total number of ELA sessions middle school students will take for PARCC this year.
What is five?
300
An item that uses technology to capture student comprehension of text, such as drag and drop, cut and paste, and highlight text features.
What is Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response?
300
EOY
What End of Year?
300
Writing that uses evidence and logical integration and framing of concepts to advance an argument or convey an idea.
What is analytic writing?
300
Errors in test scores that result from parts of the test that are not relevant to the content being measured and that differentially affect the performance of different groups of test takers.
What is bias?
300
Our two testing windows (weeks) for middle school PARCC sessions this year
What is March 23-27 and May 11-15?
400
Students analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli and answer a series of questions, synthesizing information from multiple sources in order to write an analytic essay.
What is Research Simulation Task?
400
PNP
What is Personal Needs Profile?
400
An attitude or position taken by a writer or a speaker with the purpose of proving it or supporting it.
What is a thesis?
400
A numerical score, derived from student responses to test items, that summarizes the overall level of performance attained by that student.
What is scale score?
400
Practices and procedures that provide students with disabilities equitable access to instructional materials and assessments.
What is accommodation?
500
An established set of criteria, including rules, principles, and illustrations, that attempt to communicate expectations of quality.
What is a rubric?
500
CBT
What is computer-based test?
500
An author's choice of words based on their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness
What is diction?
500
The level of cognitive demand expected for a student to correctly answer a test item.
What is complexity?
500
Embedded supports available to all students during a computer-based test