MAP, CogAt,
Assessments for a new
PARCCGeneration
Jayme Brewrink & Nigel La
Roche
Waterloo Administrators
Session Outcomes
October
Measuring
Leadership
what Matters
College & Career Readiness
Standards Alignment
MAP and PARCC are aligned to the
College and Career Readiness
Standards.
MAP has selected response items,
PARCC has performance-based or
constructed-response items (written
responses).
MAP measures Depth of Knowledge
(DOK) 1 & 2, and soon 3. PARCC will
assess DOK 1 through 4.
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Purposes of MAP
Measures student growth over time.
Provides a preliminary benchmark of
college and career readiness.
Assesses instructional strengths and
needs.
Supports differentiated instruction in the
classroom.
Projects performance on the PARCC
Assessments (future use).
MAP Assessment Information
Two Tests: Math and Reading
MAP is a norm-referenced test.
MAP is a computer-adaptive
assessment.
Gives the score as a RIT
-Equal-interval scale
Grades 2-5 Examples
Grades 2-5 examples
Language Arts and Mathematics:
The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
What is PARCC?
Allows parents and teachers the ability to
measure whether or not their child is
learning what they need to know to
succeed in the future.
These new assessments will replace
outdated and less effective measures with
new tests that assess real world skills that
colleges and employers say they value
like critical thinking and problem solving.
English Language Arts Three Tasks
Literary Analysis Task: This task will ask students
to carefully consider literature worthy of close study
and compose an analytic essay.
Research Simulation Task: In this task, students
analyze an informational topic presented through
several articles or multimedia stimuli, the first text
being an anchor text that introduces the topic.
Narrative Writing Task: In this task, students may
be asked to write a story, detail a scientific process,
write a historical account of important figures, or to
describe an account of events, scenes or objects.
ELA Items Types
Evidence-Based Selected
Response [EBSR]
Technology-Enhanced
Constructed Response [TECR]
Prose Constructed Response
[PCR]
Mathematics Tasks
Balance of conceptual
understanding, procedural fluency,
and application
Modeling/application in a real-world
context
Call
for
written
arguments
and
http://www.parcconline.org/samples/mathematics/grade-3-mathematics
Opportunity for Sample
Tests
Use Safari
Visit
http://practice.parcc.testnav.com
Select Practice Tests, then subject
Select Grade 3
http://practice.parcc.testnav.com
What is CogAT?
Cognitive Abilities Test
Measures learned reasoning abilities
Abilities may have been developed
through both
in-school or out-of-school experiences
Why CogAT? (Cognitive Ability Test)
CogAT conforms with requirements as outlined in COMAR
Chapter 13A.04.07 Gifted and Talented Education.
Recently normed in 2010, using large sample
representative of U.S. population. Copyrighted in 2012.
To better understand a students cognitive strengths and
weaknesses
To aid schools in proper placement of a student based on
their abilities, not what they know
To get tips on how to best teach to a students learning
style thereby help each student achieve academic success
Why CogAT?
Three independent batteries
Verbal, Quantitative, and Nonverbal
Batteries measure the students learned
reasoning abilities in the three areas most
closely related to success in school.
Different test formats
Each battery has subtests that make use of
three different test formats.
Measuring with multiple formats rather than
the same format on all items increases both
the fairness and the validity of the scores
students obtain.
Why CogAT?
Test Levels
Test levels are designated by age rather
than by grade. This reduces confusion in
achievement-ability testing.
GT Screening
CogAT is often used to identify students
for participation in gifted education
programming.
What Does CogAT Measure?
Verbal Reasoning: Assesses students ability to use search,
retrieval, and comparison processes using concepts essential for
verbal reasoning. These reasoning abilities play an important role
in reading comprehension, critical thinking, writing, and virtually
all verbal learning tasks.
Quantitative Reasoning: Assesses students ability to reason
about patterns and relations using concepts essential in
quantitative thinking. These reasoning skills are significantly
related to problem solving in mathematics and other disciplines.
Nonverbal Reasoning: Assesses students ability to reason with
more novel questions that use spatial and figural content. To
perform successfully, students must invent strategies for solving
novel problems. They must be flexible in using these strategies
and accurate in implementing them.
Verbal Battery
The Verbal Battery measures
flexibility, fluency, and
adaptability in reasoning with verbal
materials and in solving verbal
problems. These reasoning abilities
play an important role in reading
comprehension, critical thinking,
writing, and virtually all verbal learning
tasks.
Quantitative Battery
The Quantitative Battery measures
quantitative
reasoning skills; flexibility and fluency in
working with quantitative symbols and
concepts; and the ability to organize,
structure, and give meaning to an
unordered set of numerals and
mathematical symbols. These reasoning
skills are significantly related to problem
solving in mathematics and other
disciplines.
Nonverbal Battery
The single most important factor
in determining America's success
in the 21st century will be main
taining our ability to be an inno
vative
and
creative
society.
Ron Kind
Thank You
Resources:
-PARCC-www.parcconline.org
-MAP-www.nwea.org/assessments/resources-for-parents/
