PARCC Data: Curious

As students take PARCC tests online across the country, I’m curious about the following data points?

• Did boys and girls perform differently with regard to content, time, and/or specific skill?
• Where were students strong, and where, in general, did students meet the most challenge?
• Were there significant regional differences?
• Did students in my school system perform similarly or differently from each other?
• In my own class, which students demonstrated proficiency and which students struggled? Do those statistics line up with what I observe and assess in class?
• How did our scope and sequence line up with performance results? What changes do we need to make?
• What are the time-on-task:performance ratios?

The online tests are probably creating a lot of data. I hope that data is shared publicly so we can all take a look and assess with regard to the test content, protocols, standards, teaching/learning contexts, and individual students. I’m curious.