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• Timeline
• Curriculum Changes
• Test Specs – ELA/Math
• Test type/delivery
• Text Complexity
• Social Studies
• Science
• Instructional Connections
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• June 2010: North Carolina State Board of Education adoption of the CCSS
• 2010-2011: Item development for the Next Generation of Assessments
• 2011-2012: Administration of stand-alone field tests of assessments
• 2012-2013: Operational administration of assessments aligned to the CCSS- NCDPI
• 2013-2014: Operational administration of assessments aligned to the CCSS-NCDPI
• 2014-2015: National assessments aligned to the CCSS
(Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium)- pending
SBE approval
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Shift 1
Informational and Nonfiction
Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts
Shift 2
Evidence
Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text
Shift 3
Complex Texts
Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary
Draft – March 2012. Check http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ready/
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NCSCoS - ELA
Enabling strategies to read and write
Strategies and skills to comprehend
Make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology
5-10%
58-68%
23-35%
Common Core ELA
Reading for
Literature
Reading for information
30-40%
29-49%
Language 19-31%
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NCSCoS - ELA
Use language to express individual perspectives
Explore and analyze information from a variety of sources
Examine the foundation of argument
Use critical thinking skills and create criteria to evaluate print and non-print texts
3-11%
18-22%
5-8%
9-21%
Respond to various literary genre 45-55%
Conventions of grammar and language
3-8%
Common Core - ELA
Reading for
Literature
Reading for
Information
32-38%
41-46%
Language 19-25%
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Grades 3 –8 ELA will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items.
• NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of threeresponse-option multiple-choice items, technologyenhanced items, and constructed-response items .
• NCEXTEND1 ELA alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items.
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Grades 3 –8 ELA assessment designed for a paper/pencil administration and may have an online administration option.
Grades 3 –8 NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments.
The NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will be designed for online administrations.
The NCEXTEND1 ELA assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor.
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NCSCoS - ELA
Reflections and reactions to print and non-print
Explain meaning, describe process, answer research questions
Examine arguments and develop informed opinion
7%
7%
5%
Common Core - ELA
Reading for
Literature
Reading for
Information
30-34%
32-38%
Writing
Language
14-18%
14-18%
Create and use standards to critique communication
18%
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of genre
Apply conventions of grammar and language
32%
31%
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• High School English II assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items, technology-enhanced items, and constructedresponse items.
• NCEXTEND2 English II assessments will consist of three-responseoption multiple-choice items, technology-enhanced items, and constructed-response items.
• NCEXTEND1 ELA alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items.
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The High School English II online administration will also be available in a paper/pencil version.
NCEXTEND2 English II assessment will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments.
NCEXTEND2 ELA assessments will be designed for online administrations.
NCEXTEND1 ELA and High School English II assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor.
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Shift 1
strongly where the standards focus
Shift 2
think across grades and link to major topics within grades
Shift 3
require conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application with intensity
Draft – March 2012. Check http://www.ncpublicschools.org/ready/
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NCSCoS - Math
Number and operations
Measurement
20-40%
10-15%
Geometry
Data analysis and
Probability
Algebra
10-30%
10-18%
20-25%
Common Core - Math
Operations and
Algebraic Thinking
Numbers and
Operations in Base
Ten
Numbers and
Operations -
Fractions
Measurement and
Data
5-35%
5-27%
20-52%
10-27%
Geometry 2-17%
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•The Grades 3 and 4 mathematics assessments will consist of four-response-option multiplechoice items.
•The Grades 5–8 mathematics assessments and the Algebra I/Integrated I assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight griddedresponse items requiring numerical responses.
• NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items.
•All
CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculator-active and calculator-inactive sections.
•One-third to one-half of the Grades 3 –8 assessments will be comprised of calculator-inactive items; approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive.
•The
NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performancebased, multiple-choice items.
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NCSCoS - Math
Numbers and
Operation
Measurement
10-25%
10-15%
Geometry
Data Analysis and
Probability
Algebra
10-25%
20-25%
20-40%
Common Core - Math
Ratios and
Proportional
Relationships
Number System
7-27%
2-32%
18-32% Expressions and
Equations
Functions
Geometry
Statistics and
Probability
22-27%
17-30%
7-20%
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•The Grades 5–8 mathematics assessments and the Algebra I/Integrated
I assessment will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight gridded-response items requiring numerical responses.
• NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items.
•All CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculator-active and calculator-inactive sections.
• One-third to one-half of the Grades 3 –8 assessments will be comprised of calculator-inactive items; approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive.
•The NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items.
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Grades 3 –8 assessments are designed for paper/pencil administrations and may have an online administration option.
The Algebra I/Integrated I is designed for an online administration but will also be available in a paper/pencil version.
NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. The
NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will be designed for online administrations.
NCEXTEND1 mathematics assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor.
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NCSCoS - Algebra
Number and
Operations
Geometry and
Measurement
20-25%
10-15%
Data and
Probability
Algebra
30-35%
35-40%
Common Core - Math
Number and
Quantity
Algebra
5-10%
22-27%
Functions
Geometry
Statistics and
Probability
35-40%
10-15%
15-20%
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• Algebra I/Integrated I assessment will consist of four-responseoption multiple-choice items and a maximum of eight griddedresponse items requiring numerical responses.
• NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-response-option multiple-choice items and gridded-response items.
• All CCSS mathematics assessments will include both calculatoractive and calculator-inactive sections.
• Approximately one-third of the high school assessments will be calculator inactive.
• The NCEXTEND1 mathematics alternate assessments will consist of fifteen performance-based, multiple-choice items.
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The Algebra I/Integrated I assessment is designed for an online administration but will also be available in a paper/pencil version.
NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will closely follow the weightings of the standards on the general assessments. The
NCEXTEND2 mathematics assessments will be designed for online administrations.
NCEXTEND1 mathematics assessments will be designed for paper/pencil administrations with online data entry by the assessor.
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NCSCoS - Science
Interdependence of plants and animals
Landforms
25-30%
20-25%
Weather and
Climate
20-25%
Forces and Motion 25-30%
Essential Standards - Science
Forces and Motions
Matter: Properties and
Change
Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Earth Systems,
Structures, and
Processes
Structures and
Functions of Living
Organism
Ecosystems
13-15%
12-14%
11-13%
15-17%
14-16%
14-16%
Evolution and Genetics 13-15%
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Essential Standards - Science
NCSCoS - Science
Scientific Inquiry 48-52%
28-32% Technological
Design
Investigations –
Hydrospace
Chemistry
Evolution in
Organisms and
Landforms
Cell Theory
Microbiology
28-32%
25-30%
20-25%
8-12%
8-12%
Matter: Properties and
Change
Energy Conservation and
Transfer
Earth Systems, Structures, and Processes
Earth History
Structures and Function of
Living Organisms
Ecosystems
Evolution and Genetics
Molecular Biology
14-16%
10-12%
13-15%
11-13%
19-23%
9-11%
11-13%
8-10%
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NCSCoS - Biology
Essential Standards -
Biology
Scientific inquiry 28-32%
Structure and 18-22%
Physical, chemical, and 25-30%
Function of Living cellular basis of life
Organisms
Ecosystems 18-22%
Continuity of life and the changes of organisms over time
30-35%
Evolution and
Genetics
43-53%
Molecular Biology 15-19%
Unity and diversity of life 25-30%
Ecological relationships among organisms
15-20%
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• Grade 5, Grade 8, and biology assessments will consist of four-response-option multiple-choice items and technologyenhanced items.
• NCEXTEND2 assessments will consist of three-responseoption multiple-choice items and technology-enhanced items.
• NCEXTEND1 alternate assessment will consist of fifteen performance-based multiple choice items.
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•Grade 5, Grade 8, and biology – designed for online administration but will have a paper/pencil version
• NCEXTEND2 – online administration
• NCEXTEND 1 paper/pencil with online data entry by assessor
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• The use of a common taxonomy
• (Revised Bloom ’ s or RBT)
• Conceptually written standards
• Strands
• Provides the cognitive framework used for all of the
North Carolina Essential
Standards
• Provides common language for all curriculum areas
• Use of one verb
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K-12
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• K-2: No major content changes
• 3 rd Grade: Communities
• 4 th Grade: North Carolina through Reconstruction ( 2009 General
Assembly HB 1032 Yearlong instruction on NC history and geography in the elementary grades)
• The focus of 5 th grade has changed from a geographic study of the
United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America to a historical study of the United States from pre-colonial times through
Reconstruction .
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th
• 6 th Grade : Shift from a study of just
Europe and South America to an integrated study of the Ancient
World through Exploration
• 7 th Grade: Shift from a study of just
Africa, Asia, and Australia to an integrated study of the Age of
Exploration to the present
• 8 th Grade: Parallel study of the
United States and North Carolina
(American Revolution – Present)
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th
• World History addresses all time periods but the key focus is
1500s – present
• Civics & Economics
– Integration of Personal Financial Literacy
– Colonial History is moved back into the American History course
• Two American History courses
– Similar standards/objectives
– American History I begins with the European exploration of the New World and continues through the era of
Reconstruction
– American History II begins at the end of the
Reconstruction era and continues to present times
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Qualitative evaluation of the text
– Levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, and knowledge demands
• Quantitative evaluation of the text
– Readability measures and other scores of text complexity
• Matching reader to text and task
– Reader variables (such as motivation, knowledge, and experiences) and task variables (such as purpose and the complexity generated by the task assigned and the questions posed)
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•K-12 texts have become easier ; college texts have not.
•College textbooks, workplace texts, and newspapers are more demanding than materials used in
12 th grade.
•Instruction with HS texts is heavily scaffolded while students are expected to read independently in college.
•The reading load in college is substantially more than what students typically experience in lower grades.
The complexity of reading demands in college/career increased
The complexity of K-12 texts decreased
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New (Common Core State Standards) and
Old (Lexiles) Quantitative Grade Bands
* The K-1 suggested Lexile range was not identified by the Common Core State Standards and was added by Kansas.
** Taken from Accelerated Reader and the Common Core State Standards, available at the following URL: http://doc.renlearn.com/KMNet/R004572117GKC46B.pdf

“ . . . it is important to recognize that scaffolding often is entirely appropriate. The expectation that scaffolding will occur with particularly challenging texts is built into the Standards ’ grade-by-grade text complexity expectations, for example. The general movement, however, should be toward decreasing scaffolding and increasing independence both within and across the text complexity bands defined in the standards.
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Appendix A

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• CCSS intentionally do not offer reading list/s, but do offer sample texts to help guide and inform
• CCSS establish “ staircase ” of increasing complexity to prepare students for college and career-level reading
• CCSS mandate certain critical types of content for all students including classic myths, foundational
U.S. documents, seminal works of American literature, Shakespeare
• Students expected to read diverse array of classic and contemporary literature along with challenging informational texts in a range of subject areas
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NC Science Essential Standards Vertical Progression
PSc.3.2.4 Illustrate the wave interactions of reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.
Phy.2.2.2 Analyze wave behaviors in terms of transmission, reflection, refraction and interference.
6.P.1.2 Explain the relationship among visible light, the electromagnetic spectrum, and sight.
6.P.3.2
Explain the effects of electromagnetic waves on various materials to include absorption, scattering, and change in temperature.
4.P.3.2
Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes an object or travels from one medium to another, and that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
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Below are links to each regional resource page created by the NCDPI RttT PD Leads designed to share information and support the work of the district/charter PD teams. This information is shared and compiled as a result of the training sessions, individual virtual conferences, district/charter team meetings, and more that are held in each region.
Please take advantage of these resources and feel free to contact the RttT PD Leads for additional information.
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• Region 1: http://region1rttt.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 2: http://NCRegion2.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 3: http://region3pd.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 4: http://rt3region4.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 5: http://ncregion5rttt.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 6: http://region6pd.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 7: http://rt3region7.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
• Region 8: http://region8wnc.ncdpi.wikispaces.net
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• Pay attention to new objectives, pacing, unpacking documents, Cross-walks, and learning progressions.
• Limit following current textbooks and workbooks exclusively. Select and sort current materials to help pupils actively “ dig ” deeper in content.
• Identify “ gaps ” and supplement by gradelevel/subject kits, materials, etc.
• Utilize DPI, district, and standard Smarter Balanced
Common Core materials.
• Remember: Every teacher teaches READING and
LITERACY.
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• Common Core State Standards: Overview of the standards, which states have adopted, etc. http://www.corestandards.org/
• For grade-level materials: http://www.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
• Common Core Resources listed and annotated: http://www.ccsso.org/Documents/2012/Common_Core_Resources
.pdf
• Common Core: Contains units already written for K-12 ELA. Cost:
$20 each to access K-5, 6-8, 9-12. http://commoncore.org/
• ELA Live Binders: Comprehensive overview of the ELA standards, produced by NCDPI. http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/297779
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•Science ESSENTIAL STANDARDS SUPPORT
TOOLS include “ Crosswalks ” and Unpacked
Content http://dpi.state.nc.us/acre/standards/support-tools/
•SCIENCE SHARP SCHOOL site http://science.ncwiseowl.org/
•NC DPI WIKI for Collaborative Workspaceshttp://scnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/
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