How are Sol graded?

[Anonymous]

There are topics not yet covered. If other schools have not covered these either does it matter?

[Anonymous]

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The questions your child is scored on (the 200-600 score) are based on grade level standards that should have been covered in class.

It is possible that pilot questions may be added. Those don’t count. There could be a few questions that are from the previous year’s standards or the following year’s standards. Those only count toward the vertical scaled score, which can be used to look at year-to-year growth. That score isn’t submitted with the AAP packet.

[Anonymous]

The VDOE board of education (I think) determines the actual number of questions right required to get different scores. For example you usually don't have to get 100% of the questions right to get a 600. The actual cut scores for passing and pass advanced may vary from year to year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The VDOE board of education (I think) determines the actual number of questions right required to get different scores. For example you usually don't have to get 100% of the questions right to get a 600. The actual cut scores for passing and pass advanced may vary from year to year.

The cut scores are adjusted when the SOL is revised (every seven years) and remain the same until the next SOL revision.

[Anonymous]

They're graded by a computer?

Everyone takes the same test, regardless of whether its been covered or not... Most teachers are incentivized to "teach to the test", as that's how they're graded themselves.

[Anonymous]

As the OP mentioned my kids class didn’t cover all that’s been mentioned in the curriculum and SOL site . So how to prepare for the rest ? Is there any site that can be used for SOL preparation apart from sol.org

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the OP mentioned my kids class didn’t cover all that’s been mentioned in the curriculum and SOL site . So how to prepare for the rest ? Is there any site that can be used for SOL preparation apart from sol.org

I would not study outside of what they are doing at school.

[Anonymous]

Why can't we see the grades in SIS Parent View right away? My kid had to take it the next day due to illness and said there were other kids in there taking it again because they had failed. Since they know all the grades already why don't they post them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't we see the grades in SIS Parent View right away? My kid had to take it the next day due to illness and said there were other kids in there taking it again because they had failed. Since they know all the grades already why don't they post them?

You will get the score in the summer. Some questions are piloted and thrown out so the state waits until those scores are updated to send reports to parents. The reason that students who retake are informed is there is a very short window for them to retake the exam before the testing window closes.

[Anonymous]

SOL test is provided and graded by VA state online computer system. An A grade in the course but a low or failing SOL score means inflated grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You will get the score in the summer. Some questions are piloted and thrown out so the state waits until those scores are updated to send reports to parents. The reason that students who retake are informed is there is a very short window for them to retake the exam before the testing window closes.

A question gets thrown out like once every 15 years. I think they could post the (tenative) scores online and mail the final results in the summer and it would be a much better solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're graded by a computer?

Everyone takes the same test, regardless of whether its been covered or not... Most teachers are incentivized to "teach to the test", as that's how they're graded themselves.

I thought the SOL was computer adaptive testing, meaning every kid gets a different test?

[Anonymous]

The Iready is adaptive, not the SOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As the OP mentioned my kids class didn’t cover all that’s been mentioned in the curriculum and SOL site . So how to prepare for the rest ? Is there any site that can be used for SOL preparation apart from sol.org

How do you know that they didn’t cover it? Did you ask the teacher about it?

The released tests are based on the previous set of standards, so if you’re going by those, there will be discrepancies. For example, probability questions no longer appear on the sixth grade math SOL (they do in 5th and 7th), and they no longer have to name commutative and identity properties, but you’ll see those questions on the old released tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Iready is adaptive, not the SOL.

SOL is Computer adaptive testing. Every kid has a different test.