Reply to Practicing for PARCC

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Practicing for PARCC - WHY!?!?!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

The ELA PARCC test doesn’t test content taught to students during that school year unlike most other tests like the AP test  [b]It tests skills using random content[/b]. It’s like apples and oranges. [/quote]

No, it doesn't.

Or, I guess, it depends on how you define "skills" and "content". It doesn't test you on when William Shakespeare was born, if that's what you mean by content.[/quote]

It tests reading comprehension skills that are overly taught in schools. Skills like compare/contrast, inference get, predicting, determining the author’s purpose, etc. These skills are supposed to translate to any content. The thing is that testing comprehension is highly dependent on domain specific knowledge. Where does most of this knowledge come from? Not much from school since every district follows its own curriculum and teaches its own content. That is why the PARCC test has to be a bunch of random reading passage Every district innMD has a different curriculum. Read “The Knowledge Deficit” for a thorough explanation of why reading scores don’t improve in our school system. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics