Beauvoir 2nd Grade ERB Results

[Anonymous]

For second grade, ERB reports don't include stanines, just the verbal bits, "meets expectations," etc. This is an ERB thing, not a Beauvoir thing. Changes in 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For second grade, ERB reports don't include stanines, just the verbal bits, "meets expectations," etc. This is an ERB thing, not a Beauvoir thing. Changes in 3rd grade.

Parent of Beauvoir 3rd grader here. Last year our second grade ERB results DID include stanines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The ERB's are one test. The ERB is not correlated specifically to your school's curriculum or pacing (do you want your child's school 'teaching to the ERB?). Go ahead and raise questions about your school's math curriculum and approach, but don't base those questions about curriculum on the results from one unrelated test.
The proof is in the pudding--is your child excited about math? Showing a progression in number sense? Have you investigated the theory behind your child's math curriculum and does it make sense in the long run (the long run matters; look how MoCo has gone full circle with its accelerated math program and is now back-peddling completely). The 2nd grade ERB does not count for outplacement; is your school's curriculum preparing your child in foundations of math for tests down the road that will? Are your child's teacher's skilled and competent (any math program depends on that). How is your child doing on a variety of formal and informal assessments including the ERBs, but also those that you conduct at the dinner table? Please take the ERB's with a grain of salt.

Keep kidding yourself!

[Anonymous]

The ERB is a remarkably uninformative test. A 5 is the 'cut point' for good, if that matters to you? Getting all upset over second grade ERBs is not worth it. Maybe when you are used to being in the 99th percentile in everything, when your child does not strike testing gold the first time out it must be maddening- but seriously, the ERB has dubious worth. I would trust many other ways of assessing my child's school over an ERB. But if you wish to judge your child's school by one test, why not just send them to the public school down the way and save yourself a TON of money? All said in good spirit by the way -- the ERB is just not worth this (or any...) level of angst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ERB's are one test. The ERB is not correlated specifically to your school's curriculum or pacing (do you want your child's school 'teaching to the ERB?). Go ahead and raise questions about your school's math curriculum and approach, but don't base those questions about curriculum on the results from one unrelated test.
The proof is in the pudding--is your child excited about math? Showing a progression in number sense? Have you investigated the theory behind your child's math curriculum and does it make sense in the long run (the long run matters; look how MoCo has gone full circle with its accelerated math program and is now back-peddling completely). The 2nd grade ERB does not count for outplacement; is your school's curriculum preparing your child in foundations of math for tests down the road that will? Are your child's teacher's skilled and competent (any math program depends on that). How is your child doing on a variety of formal and informal assessments including the ERBs, but also those that you conduct at the dinner table? Please take the ERB's with a grain of salt.

Keep kidding yourself!

I agree with the first poster here and I think everyone needs to dial it down about these things. My DD did terribly on the ERBs at Beauvoir and is now a straight A student at NCS (OK, one A-). I have no idea why she did so badly on the ERBs and I really don't care. In the scheme of things it means very little.

[Anonymous]

Our DC, a 4th grader, transferred from a private to a parochial school last year and we were shocked at how far ahead they were in math. We've had to do a lot of work to get DC up to speed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ERB's are one test. The ERB is not correlated specifically to your school's curriculum or pacing (do you want your child's school 'teaching to the ERB?). Go ahead and raise questions about your school's math curriculum and approach, but don't base those questions about curriculum on the results from one unrelated test.
The proof is in the pudding--is your child excited about math? Showing a progression in number sense? Have you investigated the theory behind your child's math curriculum and does it make sense in the long run (the long run matters; look how MoCo has gone full circle with its accelerated math program and is now back-peddling completely). The 2nd grade ERB does not count for outplacement; is your school's curriculum preparing your child in foundations of math for tests down the road that will? Are your child's teacher's skilled and competent (any math program depends on that). How is your child doing on a variety of formal and informal assessments including the ERBs, but also those that you conduct at the dinner table? Please take the ERB's with a grain of salt.

Keep kidding yourself!

I agree with the first poster here and I think everyone needs to dial it down about these things. My DD did terribly on the ERBs at Beauvoir and is now a straight A student at NCS (OK, one A-). I have no idea why she did so badly on the ERBs and I really don't care. In the scheme of things it means very little.

Can I ask if you had other qualities that made your DD an"otherwise qualified candidate" such as : full pay family with multiple children in school, PA President, etc...not begrudging you if that is true its just please understand if your kids only selling point is academic and they get straight 6's , these parents might not be able to just brush it off. Some families are under a lot of pressure because their DC Public is in the 'hood" and we aren't in a position to take the "I don't know why she got those scores ...and I don't care" attitude. We don't want her getting shanked some day in DCPS.