High school students will find out how they did on the new Common Core tests from PARCC and on Ohio’s other new state tests by October or November, state testing director Jim Wright said Tuesday.
Scores and grades for students in grades three through eight should be available for parents in December.
The schedule for setting grades from the state’s new tests in math, English, science and social studies does not differ much from an earlier timetable from the state’s Common Core testing partner, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).
But PARCC and the Ohio Department of Education have a more detailed schedule now.
Results will come late in the fall this year because the tests are new and because Ohio and PARCC have chosen to see how students do on test questions before setting score ranges and grades. Students and teachers will not see results by the start of the 2015-16 school year, but PARCC officials hope the reporting time will be faster in future years.
Key decisions about what scores are good ones and which will be considered bad ones will be made in August into early September, according to the schedule Wright shared with the state school board.
Educators from the 11 states in PARCC will meet in Washington, D.C., through most of August to look at how students performed on different test questions and to set “cut scores” — ranges of scores that receive different grades.
Then PARCC will calculate results based on those scores, send results back to states for feedback and then make a final decision — all by Sept 11.
Ohio will follow a similar procedure on its own for its new science, social studies, American history and American government exams, also in August.
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