Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, Arizona students will be required to take a new state exam called The Partnership for Assessment for College and Careers (or PARCCs). This new exam will be administered to students K-12.
It will supposedly test students’ comprehension and understanding of material.It will test in a more stringent way than AIMS.
“It makes students think more when they write. It’s more rigorous,” Principal Dan Serrano states. PARCCs is a result of Common Core, a program that requires teachers to teach students certain material so they can be successful in college and real life scenarios.The exam is likely going to tune out the 20-year-old AIMS and become the new “must-pass exam.”
When asked of the possibility of PARCCs replacing AIMS, Serrano explains that, “AIMS will only go away if our legislature votes it away, but yes, I would say it will probably be replaced for the 2014-2015 [school year].”
Currently, the PARCCs exam is present in Kentucky, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota, but is being distributed to 19 states and Washington, D.C. in anticipation of the 2014-2015 school year.
