PARCC Frameworks and Research

Carefully study the schematic below which points out that a great deal of the PARCC assessments will be a simulated research task.  (30%)   I love the premise from PARCC  which states: 

(Research aligned with the standards could take one to two weeks of instruction.) Ongoing incorporation of research for shorter tasks should also be a regular component of instruction.

Now, how many of your CCSS teachers are doing 1 week or 2 week research tasks in the library?  Please share this with them.  We are living in the Information Age and students need to be information literate to be College and Career ready.   Why not teach to this part of the test and let them exercise their thought process concluding, synthesizing, and presenting knowledge supported by "evidence" ?

Here's the verbiage from PARCC to explain:

 

Research Project

Each module includes the opportunity for students to produce one extended project that uses research to address a significant topic, problem, or issue. This entails gathering and synthesizing relevant information from several additional literary or informational texts in various media or formats on a particular topic or question drawn from one or more texts from the module. Students are expected at this stage to have performed research that assesses the accuracy of sources and uses a standard citation format to acknowledge the conclusions of others. Students can present their findings in a variety of informal and more formal argumentative or explanatory contexts, either in writing or orally. (Research aligned with the standards could take one to two weeks of instruction.) Ongoing incorporation of research for shorter tasks should also be a regular component of instruction.