Aps assessment / VGA parent reports

[Anonymous]

Checking on testing results in APS. The APS assessment website says: Parent reports will be shared with families via ParentVUE approximately two weeks after the testing window closes on February 2, 2024.

https://www.apsva.us/assessment/fall-growth-assessments/

Anyone receive this yet?

[Anonymous]

Nope. We haven't even gotten our elementary report card yet and those were supposed to be out last week.

[Anonymous]

I find it frustrating that it takes months to get back the results of assessments. The rest results are instant and having the information helps parents make decisions about if extra intervention is necessary. It would be really helpful to know if my kids are going to be eligible for summer school before camp registration

[Anonymous]

We got notification today that they’re coming out next week.

[Anonymous]

Op here. The lag is driving me a little nuts. If I were this late on an assignment at work, I’d certainly be expected to transparently communicate.

[Anonymous]

We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

It is deeply wrong. Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance. For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us. We lost an entire summer of tutoring. We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student. In hindsight, teacher was just a dud. We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence. It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.

[Anonymous]

My frustration is that the mid-year DIBLES have been posted to the dashboard, but I can't see my kid's results. There's no reason to hold those data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

It is deeply wrong. Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance. For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us. We lost an entire summer of tutoring. We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student. In hindsight, teacher was just a dud. We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence. It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.

I mean I agree with you! I don't' see why they can't immediate release scores and then re-release the scaled scores once the State does whatever it does to the data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

It is deeply wrong. Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance. For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us. We lost an entire summer of tutoring. We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student. In hindsight, teacher was just a dud. We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence. It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.

I mean I agree with you! I don't' see why they can't immediate release scores and then re-release the scaled scores once the State does whatever it does to the data.

Fairfax does, so it's clearly possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

It is deeply wrong. Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance. For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us. We lost an entire summer of tutoring. We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student. In hindsight, teacher was just a dud. We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence. It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.

I mean I agree with you! I don't' see why they can't immediate release scores and then re-release the scaled scores once the State does whatever it does to the data.

Fairfax does, so it's clearly possible.

No they don't. I am an FCPS parent. SOLS take forever to get back. DS took the iReady in January, his school takes it 3 times a year, and we don't have the scores. We have heard nothing about the VGA. We get nothing in a timely manner. It sucks.

[Anonymous]

I've worked in a school district central office. I know how these assessment data work. There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't be getting the DIBLES and MAP parent reports uploaded to Parentvue within weeks of the assessment. I cannot think of a defensible reason why they don't give us the reports, only the scores, and hold them for so long. If you want engaged parents, you got to give them the tools to be engaged.

My biggest frustration is that they hold the scores until the parent teacher conferences. They give me the scale score without any context. It is absolutely unreasonable to expect parents to be able to have an informed conversation without the data and being able to think through the questions. I'm lucky that I know enough about the assessments to have a real time conversation, but that shouldn't be the expectation. If you want parents to be engaged, you gotta work with them

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We received notice that our child failed all the SOLs in mid-August, after said child took them in May. I’ve lost faith in APS.

This drives me nuts. I think they only notify of SOL failure if it is close enough that they think they could pass on re-test. But again that information is useful if you want to get resources for your kid.

All that being said, APS waits until the state officially releases the scores which is not until mid summer (the state gets rid of any questions that may have been wrong or whatever).

It is deeply wrong. Our child had mixed scoring results but the SOL scores caused us to immediately seek outside assistance. For every family with a child with LDs, there is a tipping point and the SOL scores were for us. We lost an entire summer of tutoring. We incorrectly assumed the school would contact us if there was a problem. Teacher reported child was performing at grade level and was a good student. In hindsight, teacher was just a dud. We now have child in 4x week OG tutoring but we missed all summer.

That’s why these scores matter. They give parents information that sometimes teachers miss—whether from simply too many students or incompetence. It’s criminal that APS withholds them from families for weeks/months.

I mean I agree with you! I don't' see why they can't immediate release scores and then re-release the scaled scores once the State does whatever it does to the data.

Fairfax does, so it's clearly possible.

No they don't. I am an FCPS parent. SOLS take forever to get back. DS took the iReady in January, his school takes it 3 times a year, and we don't have the scores. We have heard nothing about the VGA. We get nothing in a timely manner. It sucks.

Per the posts on DCUM last summer, Fairfax parents knew if their kids had passed their SOLs months before APS parents. They may not have had scores, but APS hadn't even shared if kids had passed.

[Anonymous]

The VGA scores are up now, but still no word from our school about it so many people wouldn't know.