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[quote=Anonymous]Of course the CC has to be created before creating the assessments.

I was unclear in my explanation.

Create the CC - but then create the PARCC and roll them out at the same time but not in a punitive manner.  Allow educators to become familiar with the prototype while learning about the CC.  There isn't enough time to work with the CC in order to redesign lessons that fit w/in the school-wide literacy/critical thinking framework.  As it stands now, Curriculum 2.0 was rolled out, and teachers are still having issues with the guides.  At the secondary level, content guides are being redesigned around CC standards.

This is all fine, but when you're field testing in 2014 w/o training teachers IN the assessments first, it's ass backward.

We are - oftentimes like dogs - trained to jump when assessments roll around.  So while some of us are comfortable with the gray that comes with critical thinking and content with a push on school-wide literacy, these tests are indeed challenging.  And when the majority of students aren't at that level - or even comfortable with the new structure - it makes our lives much more difficult in terms of preparing our students.  But if we were given pre-assessments and formative assessments along the way to 1) practice backmapping and 2) increasing comfort level for students, life would be a tad bit easier.

There are many, many standards, and you simply cannot test them all. So imagine being a teacher with a guide created by MCPS.  While you might trust the curriculum writers, there's no guarantee that the standards they chose are always mirrored in the PARCC.  It becomes a guessing game - and no one benefits.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the short explanation.  Based on your knowledge, I think that you may be one of the MCPS officer who worked on the matter.  I am glad for your response.

Now, come back to the points.  My statement is 
4)[b] CCSS has not rolled out a test standard before the rollout of Curriculum 2.0. [/b]

Even though I typed it quickly with impreciseness, my statement captured the main fact.

Neither UCARE nor MSA is the right test or assessment recognized nationally for CCSS.  More specifically, new tests developed for CCSS by either PARCC or SBAC was not ready before the rollout of Curriculum 2.0.  This is a fact. 
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/03/13/24parcc.h32.html?tkn=LLRFqfZJEcYIEO4KAH5ecL0mxVVQaoSVN4u0&cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS1
http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCC%20Assessment%20Administration%20Guidance_FINAL_0.pdf

In this way, regardless how rigorous CCSS is and tests for CCSS will be, curriculum 2.0 is a premature product.  [quote=Anonymous]

You're saying that schools should not switch to the Common Core until there are assessment tests for the Common Core. But you can't test the assessment tests for the Common Core without schools that have switched to the Common Core. How would you solve this problem?[/quote][/quote]

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