DC CAPE?

[Anonymous]

Any insight about how DC CAPE is different from PARCC? The good, the bad? And, it seems like the DC CAPE testing time is even longer than PARCC?

Would love to understand more if others have more information about this change.

[Anonymous]

New name

[Anonymous]

https://osse.dc.gov/dccape

The scale is the same, and it looks like they tried to keep it very similar, but who knows if the scores across years will actually be comparable.

[Anonymous]

Moving the goal posts

[Anonymous]

This is DC's first year in DCPS so I don't have any familiarity with PARCC. The 9th graders are testing in English only this week, Tue- Thu, 90 mins each. DC thought yesterday's testing was easy.

[Anonymous]

It is the same test with a different name. Even the practice test website and questions are exactly the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any insight about how DC CAPE is different from PARCC? The good, the bad? And, it seems like the DC CAPE testing time is even longer than PARCC?

Would love to understand more if others have more information about this change.

Where are you getting that from? I didn't see any difference.

[Anonymous]

It is the same test. They can’t call it PARCC anymore because it is no longer a consortium - all the other states dropped out.

[Anonymous]

My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

In my kid's 3rd grade class last year it lasted a few days and was max 2hr each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

The number of units is unchanged pretty much across the board. I believe third grade has one additional ELA assessment.
Schools are responsible for their own schedules. I think you may be misremembering if your child took 3 units of math in one morning.

- A school based Test Coordinator

[Anonymous]

The eighth grade science test is 3 hours long with breaks. What is going on, DC?

[Anonymous]

I only know that my 4th grader reported that day 2 of the 3 days of ELA testing was really hard and tricky and frustrating, but the 1st and 3rd days were fine. Could not elaborate on why it was so hard.

Math test next week.

I do not understand why proficiency testing needs to take up 6 days of the year.

[Anonymous]

Some questions do not count but are testing/controls for future tests. Day 2 may have had some of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

The math and ELA have the same amount of units (3 hours each), so something weird is happening with your kid/school.