APS Beginning of Year testing results? ES

[Anonymous]

It’s very tough this early for teachers in early elementary to tell you if there is an issue. They have only been in school for a month really.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.

Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?

For my kids' education. If they're struggling in an area, I want to talk about it to see how we can support them. If I don't know where the teacher is assessing weaknesses, it's hard for me to be prepared to ask the right questions about what we need to do.

Maybe you could trust that your child’s teacher isn’t a total dingbat who doesn’t know how to teach, and that the questions they are asking during the conference instead of showing youngest scores are because the answers have value for educating your child.

It really boils down to a power and control issue by APS. They hold all of the cards and want to limit parental involvement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.

Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?

For my kids' education. If they're struggling in an area, I want to talk about it to see how we can support them. If I don't know where the teacher is assessing weaknesses, it's hard for me to be prepared to ask the right questions about what we need to do.

Maybe you could trust that your child’s teacher isn’t a total dingbat who doesn’t know how to teach, and that the questions they are asking during the conference instead of showing youngest scores are because the answers have value for educating your child.

It really boils down to a power and control issue by APS. They hold all of the cards and want to limit parental involvement.

Your persecution complex is showing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We don't have ours yet and it is a bit frustrating because I'd rather be prepared to talk about he my kid is doing. Honestly, I'm not thrilled about having to have an in person, workday only meeting (our slots were 2-430 or 10-12). If I am making the effort to go to the conference, I would love to have data to be prepared and make the most of it.

Make the most of it for you, or for your child’s education?

For my kids' education. If they're struggling in an area, I want to talk about it to see how we can support them. If I don't know where the teacher is assessing weaknesses, it's hard for me to be prepared to ask the right questions about what we need to do.

Maybe you could trust that your child’s teacher isn’t a total dingbat who doesn’t know how to teach, and that the questions they are asking during the conference instead of showing youngest scores are because the answers have value for educating your child.

It really boils down to a power and control issue by APS. They hold all of the cards and want to limit parental involvement.

Your persecution complex is showing.

NP, For me it is a lack of trust. Our teacher last year told us she was not allowed to share them. We contacted the principal and he confirmed that teachers had been told they could not share them. We didn’t get them til early December. I could tell the teacher wanted to share them so I don’t blame the teacher. And I trust teachers to identify issues. However, these assessments are one of the few objective measure we as parents get. I expect to get them earlier than halfway into the second quarter of school.

[Anonymous]

What questions do the teachers ask us about our kids?

[Anonymous]

I'm an APS teacher. The county doesn't tell us when the assessment reports will be uploaded. They just do it and then it's usually announced in a Friday schooltalk or superintendent email. The DIBELS window ended on Oct. 7 so that is when schools needed to be finished administering. Same for Math Inventory. We are not sending home the reports ahead of time but we are sharing if the student performed on or above grade level generally. If the student was below grade level benchmarks we discuss in more detail about the specific skill or task that was below and what we are doing about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher. The county doesn't tell us when the assessment reports will be uploaded. They just do it and then it's usually announced in a Friday schooltalk or superintendent email. The DIBELS window ended on Oct. 7 so that is when schools needed to be finished administering. Same for Math Inventory. We are not sending home the reports ahead of time but we are sharing if the student performed on or above grade level generally. If the student was below grade level benchmarks we discuss in more detail about the specific skill or task that was below and what we are doing about it.

Thanks for this info. But why on earth not share the reports with parents as soon as possible? If anyone deserves details about their kid’s performance, it’s the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher. The county doesn't tell us when the assessment reports will be uploaded. They just do it and then it's usually announced in a Friday schooltalk or superintendent email. The DIBELS window ended on Oct. 7 so that is when schools needed to be finished administering. Same for Math Inventory. We are not sending home the reports ahead of time but we are sharing if the student performed on or above grade level generally. If the student was below grade level benchmarks we discuss in more detail about the specific skill or task that was below and what we are doing about it.

Thanks for this info. But why on earth not share the reports with parents as soon as possible? If anyone deserves details about their kid’s performance, it’s the parents.

APS teacher again. I don’t know. We do discuss the results. We are just following what APS tells us to do.

[Anonymous]

Will this ever be posted to Parentvue? We did not discuss at our conference and it has not been sent home. I don't want to bug the teacher about it but want to see the scores already.

[Anonymous]

I just looked at last year's BOY assessment, and the date I downloaded it was Nov 22nd (I don't know if I did it the first day it was available in PV or a couple days later). So I'm guessing APS will probably upload them around the same time this year. If I had a crystal ball, I'd pick Friday, Nov 18th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Will this ever be posted to Parentvue? We did not discuss at our conference and it has not been sent home. I don't want to bug the teacher about it but want to see the scores already.

An email will go out when they are posted. So instead of obsessively checking or wondering, take a breather until you get the email. At this point, what would the data change for you whether you got it last week or in 3 weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked at last year's BOY assessment, and the date I downloaded it was Nov 22nd (I don't know if I did it the first day it was available in PV or a couple days later). So I'm guessing APS will probably upload them around the same time this year. If I had a crystal ball, I'd pick Friday, Nov 18th.

Smart! That makes sense. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher. The county doesn't tell us when the assessment reports will be uploaded. They just do it and then it's usually announced in a Friday schooltalk or superintendent email. The DIBELS window ended on Oct. 7 so that is when schools needed to be finished administering. Same for Math Inventory. We are not sending home the reports ahead of time but we are sharing if the student performed on or above grade level generally. If the student was below grade level benchmarks we discuss in more detail about the specific skill or task that was below and what we are doing about it.

Thanks for this info. But why on earth not share the reports with parents as soon as possible? If anyone deserves details about their kid’s performance, it’s the parents.

APS teacher again. I don’t know. We do discuss the results. We are just following what APS tells us to do.

+1.This is why I was advocating on another thread to move parent conferences to the 2 days before Thanksgiving. They don’t always let us have access to the assessment data and the window for some students doesn’t even close until Nov. 10 or 11. Anne Arundel has done it that way for years (conferences before Thanksgiving) and I see it as a win for all. If you are going out of town, schedule an afternoon/morning conference the week before Thanksgiving and then hold conferences on Monday, have Tuesday as a flex/professional work day. We would have data the county has given back to us in the “proper” format and lots more to talk about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an APS teacher. The county doesn't tell us when the assessment reports will be uploaded. They just do it and then it's usually announced in a Friday schooltalk or superintendent email. The DIBELS window ended on Oct. 7 so that is when schools needed to be finished administering. Same for Math Inventory. We are not sending home the reports ahead of time but we are sharing if the student performed on or above grade level generally. If the student was below grade level benchmarks we discuss in more detail about the specific skill or task that was below and what we are doing about it.

Thanks for this info. But why on earth not share the reports with parents as soon as possible? If anyone deserves details about their kid’s performance, it’s the parents.

APS teacher again. I don’t know. We do discuss the results. We are just following what APS tells us to do.

+1.This is why I was advocating on another thread to move parent conferences to the 2 days before Thanksgiving. They don’t always let us have access to the assessment data and the window for some students doesn’t even close until Nov. 10 or 11. Anne Arundel has done it that way for years (conferences before Thanksgiving) and I see it as a win for all. If you are going out of town, schedule an afternoon/morning conference the week before Thanksgiving and then hold conferences on Monday, have Tuesday as a flex/professional work day. We would have data the county has given back to us in the “proper” format and lots more to talk about.

I was given my child’s DIBELS and math inventory scores at conferences. 5th grade, ATS

[Anonymous]

Do you know why we don't get the parent reports for assessments? We get the high level summary, but each assessment has a formal parent score sheet that explains the assessment and gives subscale scores. It seems crazy that they don't give it to parents because they're autogenerated.