PARCC results: how will they be communicated to families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure scores are out but embargoed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a multi page report with your kid’s scores, how they performed in different sections, how they compare to their peers, etc. it’s not just “Susie got a 4”

The peer comparison is very limited. Nobody takes PARCC anymore so you are just comparing to other kids in DC of which many are low performing.

It doesn’t give you data on national comparison like other more widely used standardized tests.

Very true. I think DC is the only place using PARCC. At its height there were more than 10 states using PARCC including Maryland. So, why do you think it is like that? I would love to know how my kids compare to other kids in other states.

Used to be 24! According to Wikipedia,

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State Current Participation Status

Alabama dropped February, 2013[17]
Arizona dropped May, 2014[18]
Arkansas dropped July, 2015[19]
Florida dropped September 2013[20]
District of Columbia current user
DoDEA current user[21]
Georgia dropped July, 2013[22]
Illinois dropped March 2019[23]
Indiana dropped June 2014[24]
Kentucky dropped January, 2014[25]
Louisiana uses hybrid PARCC/state test[26][27]
Maryland dropped September, 2018[28]
Massachusetts uses hybrid PARCC/state test[29]
Mississippi dropped January, 2015[30]
New Jersey dropped February, 2019[31]
New Mexico dropped January, 2019[32]
North Dakota dropped July, 2013[33]
Ohio dropped June 2015[34]
Oklahoma dropped July 2013[35]
Pennsylvania dropped March 2014
Rhode Island dropped April 2017[36]
Tennessee dropped June, 2014[37]
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Now DC + DoDEA, and partially MA and LA.

I wonder what it costs DC now that it is shouldering the burden?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

PARCC is also a poorly crafted/worded test, particularly for ELA. Take a full practice test on-line if you doubt this.

I'd be surprised if PARCC will in fact go, since DC parents don't challenge it collectively. Just no political pressure mounting for a better test to emerge, e.g. Standard Balanced or a thoughtfully done DC-issued test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

They don't use PARCC for class placement then? What's the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure scores are out but embargoed.

Very much the case. Schools have them. They are embargoed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

They don't use PARCC for class placement then? What's the point?

I think there would be an argument against using PARCC for class placement because of equity. Not all kids take it, plus what is the goal? To group the more advanced students? DCPS is anti-tracking so of course they don't do this -- if schools do customized class placement, the goal will be to get a mix of kids at all levels in the hopes that the more advanced kids in class will help bring the lagging kids up. I also think any customized class placement tends to be more focused on behavior than academics at the elementary level, with the goal of trying to avoid giving any one teacher a particularly challenging class and to avoid highly combustible student combos.

Individual PARCC scores may be used to identify candidates for an acceleration program (tutoring or after school programming) or if you have a handful of students who are more advanced than their grade cohort, maybe to set out opportunities to pull out and do math or reading with the next grade up for part of the day. But I've never heard of a school using PARCC for class placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

They don't use PARCC for class placement then? What's the point?

I think there would be an argument against using PARCC for class placement because of equity. Not all kids take it, plus what is the goal? To group the more advanced students? DCPS is anti-tracking so of course they don't do this -- if schools do customized class placement, the goal will be to get a mix of kids at all levels in the hopes that the more advanced kids in class will help bring the lagging kids up. I also think any customized class placement tends to be more focused on behavior than academics at the elementary level, with the goal of trying to avoid giving any one teacher a particularly challenging class and to avoid highly combustible student combos.

Individual PARCC scores may be used to identify candidates for an acceleration program (tutoring or after school programming) or if you have a handful of students who are more advanced than their grade cohort, maybe to set out opportunities to pull out and do math or reading with the next grade up for part of the day. But I've never heard of a school using PARCC for class placement.

DCPS middle schools that offer accelerated math use PARCC scores as one of the data inputs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

Schools have them. 100% can confirm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

Schools have them. 100% can confirm.

Does "embargoed results" come with the instruction to lie to parents about having received them?

[Anonymous]

If you google past PARCC press conferences, you'll see that they were typically last week or the week before even. I think the results are really bad (as would be predictable), so they wanted to wait to announced them after school started. In the other PARCC thread, someone claims there's a press conference this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends. If your child is still at the school, then maybe you will get it at back to school night in early to mid September.
If your child has switched schools, then expect a letter in the mail, maybe by the end of September.

Thank you! That's a huge lag after the schools get them, and borderline offensive to send them via snail mail when kids spent so much time taking the tests at computers. Blargh.

Just FYI- schools have not yet received them and it's often mid to late September before they do..... (at least pre-Covid). PARCC really should go- it's too long a test anyways and then it takes ~4 months for schools to get results despite it being mostly computerized now....

Schools have them. 100% can confirm.

Does "embargoed results" come with the instruction to lie to parents about having received them?

Do not have that information. I know our school has them. I know our school told us they were embargoed so don' ask because they won't say anything. I guess it is possible that only some schools received their scores, but I have no clue how or why that would be the case.

[Anonymous]

Here is the latest according to BASIS DC.

Principal stated he has had the results for a month and a half but have been embargoed. He said he has to wait for the mayor to hold her presser before he can release result. His guess is maybe next week.

[Anonymous]

Hmm. My guess would be late Friday afternoon before the holiday weekend. Assuming it’s bad news and she wants it to go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmm. My guess would be late Friday afternoon before the holiday weekend. Assuming it’s bad news and she wants it to go away.

Oh, it’s definitely bad news alright. Really bad.