VGA results

[Anonymous]

Any weight put on these results? They seem low from number of questions missed, but don’t know how to interpret them.

[Anonymous]

I found the virginia.gov and FCPS websites entirely useless.

Loudoun County has an informative site and chart explanations: https://www.lcps.org/Page/237244

I thought my kid's scores seemed low (like 5 of 11 questions answered correctly) but DC's scores are in the top 25% of the state. Ooof.

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the link. I thought my kid did pretty bad too but finished in the top 25%. Sort of expected since he's in AAP.

He improved his scores in winter test, so it's encouraging.

[Anonymous]

We never even find out about these test results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never even find out about these test results.

They are being mailed. Got ours over the weekend.

[Anonymous]

Math went up and Writing down but he was still in the top 25th percentile but there was a 200 point drop in the writing score.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from any of this because they don’t provide any real information. It is frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math went up and Writing down but he was still in the top 25th percentile but there was a 200 point drop in the writing score.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from any of this because they don’t provide any real information. It is frustrating.

The teachers don't even know. I asked my DD's AAP teacher, and she said she had zero information about the score, the scale or what it all means. Such a waste of time, resources and money.

[Anonymous]

Seems many went down. So did mine. I don’t think the test is very statistically reliable.

[Anonymous]

I suspect that the adaptive nature causes issues. I really have no idea and no one seems to be able to explain it.

[Anonymous]

Yeah - our kids score dropped too. Overall seems to be fine / don’t care

[Anonymous]

Both scores went up. But, little information to go on. I checked out the lcps website that was linked higher in the thread. I saw intervals for the Fall 2022 results listed by quartile, but I didn’t see a similar chart for the winter 2023. Does anyone have a link that summarizes the Winter VGA results of 2023?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math went up and Writing down but he was still in the top 25th percentile but there was a 200 point drop in the writing score.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from any of this because they don’t provide any real information. It is frustrating.

The teachers don't even know. I asked my DD's AAP teacher, and she said she had zero information about the score, the scale or what it all means. Such a waste of time, resources and money.

Similar results here. My son had almost all of the reading questions correct in the Fall, and missed half of them in the winter test. Math score went up a little bit. I don't know what to do with the information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math went up and Writing down but he was still in the top 25th percentile but there was a 200 point drop in the writing score.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from any of this because they don’t provide any real information. It is frustrating.

The teachers don't even know. I asked my DD's AAP teacher, and she said she had zero information about the score, the scale or what it all means. Such a waste of time, resources and money.

Similar results here. My son had almost all of the reading questions correct in the Fall, and missed half of them in the winter test. Math score went up a little bit. I don't know what to do with the information.

Same here. A part of me wonders if the kids who were perfect in the fall started with harder questions, because it is adaptive, and the questions they got wrong are because they started with harder material and got more wrong because they were taking a harder version of the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Math went up and Writing down but he was still in the top 25th percentile but there was a 200 point drop in the writing score.

I have no idea what we are supposed to take away from any of this because they don’t provide any real information. It is frustrating.

The teachers don't even know. I asked my DD's AAP teacher, and she said she had zero information about the score, the scale or what it all means. Such a waste of time, resources and money.

Similar results here. My son had almost all of the reading questions correct in the Fall, and missed half of them in the winter test. Math score went up a little bit. I don't know what to do with the information.

Same here. A part of me wonders if the kids who were perfect in the fall started with harder questions, because it is adaptive, and the questions they got wrong are because they started with harder material and got more wrong because they were taking a harder version of the test.

It sounds like the test mostly tries to pull questions from your kid's grade and then can fall back one grade level or go up one grade level. Are these misses or correct answers counted in the "x out of y questions" counts? Also, the reading tests are always contingent on the passage. Your child could luck into an easy (or interesting) passage on one test and a more difficult (or uninteresting) one on another test. My DC's vertical score increased on both math and science in the Winter. But, others are finding that their scores decreased.
With math, the material hasn't even been taught yet for that grade. Also, why can LCPS provide detail on the VGA but FCPS does not?

[Anonymous]

Two things:

1 - the Loudoun County page linked above contained information directly from the VDOE. And it's the only information that has been released. We have NO winter score chart yet.

There's some information here about what's on the test (blueprint): https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/student-assessment/virginia-sol-assessment-program/growth-assessments

There's more information here regarding the SDBQ, resources to help your kids, and the score chart (part way down, there's a link to it): https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/student-assessment/parent-caregiver-resources-for-growth-assessments

2 - You can request an SDBQ from your school for your child and it will tell you whether they questions they received were low, medium, or high and if they got them right or wrong. You can do the same for the SOL score in the Spring.