Louisiana Jobs Market Shift: Raising Academic Expectations for Future Success
Louisiana's job market is evolving, with a focus on increasing the number of workers with post-high school education. Educational standards are being raised to better prepare students for the workforce. The transition includes adopting new standards, joining the PARCC consortium, and enhancing assessments to align with the Common Core State Standards. The PARCC assessment offers improved intellectual challenges, requires more in-depth student responses, and provides tailored support for individual student needs.
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Raising Expectations Louisiana s jobs market is changing: Most Louisiana jobs require education after high school (four-year college or at a two-year technical and community college). In 2011, 28 percent of the Louisiana workforce had a two- or four-year degree. To meet Louisiana s future needs, that number must double. Our students are just as capable as their peers around the country: In part, this gap is because our own academic expectations do not correspond with the job need. While a score of mastery or level four out of five denotes readiness to complete at least a year of technical college or university on-time, in our state basic or level three out of five has been accepted as a mark of full proficiency. Louisiana will raise the bar from average being basic to average being mastery between now and 2025. Assessment Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Approaching Basic LEAP Unsatisfactory Basic Mastery Advanced NAEP Below Basic Basic Proficient Advanced Minimal Command Partial Command Moderate Command Strong Command Distinguished Command PARCC Louisiana Believes 2
Time to Learn New Standards 2009-10: BESE adopts the Common Core State Standards which have been designed and endorsed by hundreds of Louisiana educators. 2010-11: Louisiana chooses to join the PARCC consortium along with a number of other states across the country. 2012-13: Louisiana educators participate in PARCC Educator Leader Cadre to weigh in on PARCC design and content. Louisiana Department of Education staff lead design and review of assessment content and assessment design in partnership with PARCC. 2013-14 & 2014-15 In 2013-14, Louisiana aligns LEAP/iLEAP/EOC tests more fully to the Common Core State Standards and participates in PARCC field test. In 2014-15, 3-8th grade students will take the PARCC assessment. (3/4th grade paper/pencil; 8th grade online) Letter grade distribution stays the same as 2012-13. Compass stays in place but value added data will not be produced. The state will maintain current 4th grade policy but allow districts to issue waivers for students demonstrating readiness to progress. The state will shift the 8th grade retention standard to be a remedial standard and require that remediation take place on the high school campus in a transitional 9thgrade year. Louisiana Believes 3
Why PARCC? 1. Our students can demonstrate that they are on par with their peers across the country, through scores that are comparable across 19 states. 2. Students will be asked to think independently, not just fill in bubble tests. 3. Our state's educators have been involved in test development, including developing test items and designing the test. 4. The test allows increased accessibility features for all students and more comprehensive accommodations for students with disabilities. Accommodations include videos of human interpreters, closed captioning, word prediction, etc. 5. The state will not pay more for a higher-quality assessment. Even though the test is higher quality, PARCC costs the same as the LEAP. Louisiana Believes 4
Key Improvements The PARCC assessment improves upon the LEAP in three ways: 1. Intellectual challenge: Instead of just basic comprehension questions, the questions on the PARCC test expect students to reason, use logic and communicate. 1. Student responses: Students are asked to explain their answers, cite evidence and write many responses instead of just through a bubble test. 2. Helping students: The format of the test is tailored to individual student needs. Louisiana Believes 5
Intellectual Challenge: LEAP Louisiana Believes 6
Intellectual Challenge: PARCC Louisiana Believes 7
Student Responses: LEAP Louisiana Believes 8
Student Responses: PARCC Louisiana Believes 9
Helping Students: PARCC The PARCC assessment includes many technology features that support students as they take the assessment. These features are: Available to all students, but not required to be used. Accessible through an easy to use computer program. Similar to tools students would use on paper and pencil tests. Louisiana Believes 10
Helping Students: Masking This is an example of the answer masking accessibility feature: Louisiana Believes 14
PARCC Sample Items This week, the Department is sharing two tools that will allow parents, teachers, students and district staff experience the PARCC assessments 15 months before the assessments are administered. Tutorial: This tutorial guides users through all of the features of the online system. The tutorial can be accessed an unlimited number of times. Sample items: These are previously released PARCC items that have now been loaded onto the technology platform. These can be accessed an unlimited number of times. Please ensure you check the technology specifications for use of these assessments. Louisiana Believes 15
