PARCC Assessment Policies

As PARCC states prepare for the implementation of the new assessment system in the 2014-15 school year, the consortium is adopting a series of common policies related to assessment administration, scoring and the reporting of results. These policies include:

• Common set of college- and career-ready content standards and policies: All PARCC states have adopted the Common Core State Standards and have determined those standards will be the basis for the PARCC assessments. For more information go here.
• Common set of performance level descriptors (PLDs): PARCC states will adopt common policy-level PLDs as well as grade- and subject-specific PLDs. For more information go here.
• Common set of assessment administration procedures: PARCC states will adopt a set of common assessment administration and procedures designed to ensure results are valid, reliable and comparable from state to state, school to school and student to student. For more information go here.
• Common set of accommodations: PARCC states will develop and adopt a common set of policies and procedures for accommodations. For more information go here.