No more PARCC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been told that it's just rebranding.The PARCC elicits negative reactions from parnts, so DC has asked for the PARCC's name to be changed to something DC-specific. The result? District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessments of Progress in Education. Literally no other change. That doesn't mean that there can't be in the future, but this year it is the exact same test.

The same but doesn't take as long? Or it does take the same amount of time?

Exactly the same. Doesn't take as long would be a different test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been told that it's just rebranding.The PARCC elicits negative reactions from parnts, so DC has asked for the PARCC's name to be changed to something DC-specific. The result? District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessments of Progress in Education. Literally no other change. That doesn't mean that there can't be in the future, but this year it is the exact same test.

Wow, they must think parents are total morons to think changing the name would change our minds.

Seriously! WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been told that it's just rebranding.The PARCC elicits negative reactions from parnts, so DC has asked for the PARCC's name to be changed to something DC-specific. The result? District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessments of Progress in Education. Literally no other change. That doesn't mean that there can't be in the future, but this year it is the exact same test.

The same but doesn't take as long? Or it does take the same amount of time?

Exactly the same. Doesn't take as long would be a different test.

Rebranding means changing the name only. Marketing people think people are stupid but in reality marketing people are stupid.

[Anonymous]

The best part will be when the city cites the name change as a reason we should accept declines in performance. The performance on these is abysmal...can I get a press release about how we improve from single digit math/ELA proficiency in HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best part will be when the city cites the name change as a reason we should accept declines in performance. The performance on these is abysmal...can I get a press release about how we improve from single digit math/ELA proficiency in HS?

34% for high school ELA and 11% for high school math but, yeah, point taken. Improvement is needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any practical benefits for the kids for CaAPE over PARCC? Or is it all just more Pearson?

When other states have made this transition they’ve shortened the test. That would be nice.

PARCC wasn’t even that long. What made it take longer was how schools chose to schedule it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any practical benefits for the kids for CaAPE over PARCC? Or is it all just more Pearson?

When other states have made this transition they’ve shortened the test. That would be nice.

That happened in MD - much better!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like renaming PARCC to CAPE will be game changer, significantly raising academic quality in DC and ensuring that DCPS becomes the gold standard for standardized testing not only in the country but the world.

I heard several Martian colonies are already considering CAPE adoption in order to remain competitive with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

My understanding is that Pearson divested of PARCC when everyone dropped out and it was bought/transferred to a company called New Meridian.

DC is the last district using the test so Pearson/New Meridian/whoever owns it probably is dropping support for it—producing new tests, scoring, etc. DC probably purchased rights to use the last of the created tests and moving forward will develop their own questions.

For now this is just a new name for the old test. Going forward I imagine it will look a lot different and I’m guessing we’ll see increased scores as non-professional test writers at DCPS begin writing questions instead of massive companies who can afford to field test questions for years before sending them out for use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that Pearson divested of PARCC when everyone dropped out and it was bought/transferred to a company called New Meridian.

DC is the last district using the test so Pearson/New Meridian/whoever owns it probably is dropping support for it—producing new tests, scoring, etc. DC probably purchased rights to use the last of the created tests and moving forward will develop their own questions.

For now this is just a new name for the old test. Going forward I imagine it will look a lot different and I’m guessing we’ll see increased scores as non-professional test writers at DCPS begin writing questions instead of massive companies who can afford to field test questions for years before sending them out for use.

Yep.

Over the last 10 years, led by the Republican platform "repeal and replace everything with the sam thing under a different name", anti-"CommonCore" propaganda (from people eho don't know what Common Core is, besides smelling vaguely Democrat-linked) collapsed PARCC as all the states quit.

DC lasted the longest, and should be congratulated for avoiding useless wasteful churn and for as long as possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARCC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any practical benefits for the kids for CaAPE over PARCC? Or is it all just more Pearson?

When other states have made this transition they’ve shortened the test. That would be nice.

That happened in MD - much better!

MCAP is still insanely long, as well as redundant with 3x/year MAP.

Part of why the MCAP scores are so low is that kids get exhausted and give up on the test. Even the kids far above grade level on MAP somehow don't score Highly Proficient in MCAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that Pearson divested of PARCC when everyone dropped out and it was bought/transferred to a company called New Meridian.

DC is the last district using the test so Pearson/New Meridian/whoever owns it probably is dropping support for it—producing new tests, scoring, etc. DC probably purchased rights to use the last of the created tests and moving forward will develop their own questions.

For now this is just a new name for the old test. Going forward I imagine it will look a lot different and I’m guessing we’ll see increased scores as non-professional test writers at DCPS begin writing questions instead of massive companies who can afford to field test questions for years before sending them out for use.

Why would (allegedly) amateur question writers lead to increased scores? That's completely uncorrelated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any practical benefits for the kids for CaAPE over PARCC? Or is it all just more Pearson?

When other states have made this transition they’ve shortened the test. That would be nice.

As a teacher in the lower grades, I was hopeful for this. The PARCC is simply too long. Then I saw that the only thing changing is the name... what's the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that Pearson divested of PARCC when everyone dropped out and it was bought/transferred to a company called New Meridian.

DC is the last district using the test so Pearson/New Meridian/whoever owns it probably is dropping support for it—producing new tests, scoring, etc. DC probably purchased rights to use the last of the created tests and moving forward will develop their own questions.

For now this is just a new name for the old test. Going forward I imagine it will look a lot different and I’m guessing we’ll see increased scores as non-professional test writers at DCPS begin writing questions instead of massive companies who can afford to field test questions for years before sending them out for use.

Why would (allegedly) amateur question writers lead to increased scores? That's completely uncorrelated.

They could be worse at writing solid questions, but knowing DCPS, they'd definitely water it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any practical benefits for the kids for CaAPE over PARCC? Or is it all just more Pearson?

When other states have made this transition they’ve shortened the test. That would be nice.

That happened in MD - much better!

MCAP is still insanely long, as well as redundant with 3x/year MAP.

Part of why the MCAP scores are so low is that kids get exhausted and give up on the test. Even the kids far above grade level on MAP somehow don't score Highly Proficient in MCAP.

DCPS gives the MAP test as well. It’s just as redundant in testing as MoCo.