PARCC Sample Items. Ohio Learning Standards Resources (A-D) Ohio Students to Spend More Time Taking Tests Under New Common Core Testing Plan. Erskinelibrary / Flickr Across all grades, Ohio students will spend an additional 49 hours a year taking standardized tests starting in 2014-15.
But the Ohio Department of Education says the way the tests will be administered will actually be less disruptive than the state’s current testing system. “Even though there may be more hours of testing, we think it can be done in such a way as not to interrupt the educational flow of the school,” says Jim Wright, director of the Office of Assessment at the Ohio Department of Education. The new tests are part of Ohio’s shift to the Common Core, a new set of standards for what students should know and be able to do in English and math. PARCC Sample Items. State Developed Assessments – Science and Social Studies. Ohio will develop assessments for science and social studies for an online administration to complement the computer-based PARCC assessments.
Additional information can be found on the Ohio Online Field Test Portal. The Field Test Portal is your gateway to all systems and resources for the Spring 2014 Ohio Online Science and Social Studies Field Tests.