VGA arrived in mail today

[Anonymous]

My 3rd grader’s VGA arrived in the mail today but it’s pretty hard to figure out from this form how she did in relation to other kids. There’s a vertical scale score but no chart that says what that shows. Anyone else find details on how to interpret? Letter says if I have questions to ask her teacher but with winter break that’s not going to happen for a bit. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Range is from 900-2000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 3rd grader’s VGA arrived in the mail today but it’s pretty hard to figure out from this form how she did in relation to other kids. There’s a vertical scale score but no chart that says what that shows. Anyone else find details on how to interpret? Letter says if I have questions to ask her teacher but with winter break that’s not going to happen for a bit. Thanks!

Haha. I teach third grade. I haven’t seen scores or know anything about the results.

[Anonymous]

I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This one was much more useful: https://p9cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/A%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20the%20Fall%202021%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

[Anonymous]

One thing from that second link was the 3rd and 4th graders were both tested on 3rd grade content, so a lot of third graders would be below the expected scores since they haven't learned the content yet. That was buried in the fine print, so I wanted to point it out for third grade parents.

[Anonymous]

One more thing, sorry for all the posts, but it sounds like VDOE has a student detail by question report that we weren't provided. I am going to ask for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This one was much more useful: https://p9cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/A%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20the%20Fall%202021%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

This is OP, thanks so much for the link! Super helpful. My kid was low in a couple of math categories (1 of 6 Qs asked) but thanks to this (and a PPer who pointed it out) that the 3rd grade beginning scores will probably be low.

[Anonymous]

Ours was in informed delivery but didn't show up. Hopefully it'll come Monday. Though maybe I don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This one was much more useful: https://p9cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/A%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20the%20Fall%202021%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

This is OP, thanks so much for the link! Super helpful. My kid was low in a couple of math categories (1 of 6 Qs asked) but thanks to this (and a PPer who pointed it out) that the 3rd grade beginning scores will probably be low.

That was all me, you're welcome! My 3rd grader's scores were all very low, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This one was much more useful: https://p9cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/A%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20the%20Fall%202021%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

Thank you for this! Very useful in interpreting the data that was otherwise unintelligible.

I too want to know why we didn’t get the student detail view. Too cheap to mail it? Too afraid of parents knowing how bad the learning gaps are? The Economist already has those all graphed out for our state in a recent article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the same question and found this by googling:

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/parent-resources/fall-2021-vertical-scaled-scores-math.pdf

Sorry, I posted the wrong link. This one was much more useful: https://p9cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/A%20Guide%20to%20Understanding%20the%20Fall%202021%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

Thank you for this! Very useful in interpreting the data that was otherwise unintelligible.

I too want to know why we didn’t get the student detail view. Too cheap to mail it? Too afraid of parents knowing how bad the learning gaps are? The Economist already has those all graphed out for our state in a recent article.

Interesting. Anyone have a link?

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the info. I’m a teacher in the county with middle schoolers and I had no idea how to interpret what I was looking at. That explanation would have been nice to include fcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the info. I’m a teacher in the county with middle schoolers and I had no idea how to interpret what I was looking at. That explanation would have been nice to include fcps.

+1

[Anonymous]

Having the test information column split into lines like it went with the reporting categories and scores was very confusing.

Also I don't understand how my 4th grader can get a 1487 with a 2 out of 7 in Computation and Estimation. 11/17 on the others for a total of 13/24 in math that tested 3rd grade skills. The child is supposedly doing well in math, but I don't really believe it.