Common Core Standards - Santa Ana Unified School District

States have joined Assessment Consortia funded by RttTPARCC StatesPartnership for Assessment of Readiness of College andCareers (PARCC) is being managed by Achieve, Inc., aWashington-based non-profit. There are 23 states andDC in PARCC.The SMARTER-Balanced Assessment Consortium is beingmanaged by San Francisco-based WestEd and its seniorprogram director, Stanley Rabinowitz. SMARTER-Balancedenlisted 31 states.At this point, both consortia are targeting the first test administration by 2014-15. Both say they willintegrate summative or end-of-the-year tests with interim and formative assessments that can guideinstruction during the year. Both are promising to include performance-based tasks, such asconducting a science experiment and writing short answers to questions, that are intended to showdeeper levels of learning and thinking than multiple choice questions supposedly can measure. Bothindicate that technology will play a major role.