Yeah SOLs are in 70s at our NA elementary, while like Haycock is 99 across the board. |
Dang you went there. And you’re probably right. |
The program is called Mastery Connect and it's what's being used for all math tests in our APS elementary. Maybe it just hasn't been rolled out at your school yet? |
Good to know that attending a parent teacher conference is helicoptering. |
You're saying math tests are not multiple choice and students are required to show their work? |
Our math check-ins are a mix of multiple choice and showing work, depending on the question. We do have students show their work. If your teacher uses mastery connect for all tests and quizzes, that's up to them, and then the questions are mult choice, write in the blank, drag and drop, etc. Each quarter APS also makes a larger quarterly assessment that is SOL style on mastery connect which is our online testing software attached to canvas. It's not required to use mastery connect. |
I’m sorry, did you just suggest that people who want math tests to include the proper answer in a multiple choice test must send their kids to private school? What a terrible indictment of the public school system. |
We were told that APS has made Mastery Connect mandatory and that teachers must use it for tracking math progress, so it has to be used for all tests/evaluations. It doesn't matter if kids show their work. Like all things APS, I'm sure your mileage varies by elementary school. |
I’m an APS elementary teacher. We have never been told that mastery connect is required for anything. We do use it sometimes but it’s not a great program (especially compared to powertest whuch we used previously). We prefer paper pencil and we often reformat to paper pencil from master connect. |
So like all thing APS, it varies by school. I shared exactly what I've been told and how my child is being evaluated this year. It's not a good way of determining if a kid knows math. |
Me correcting 4th grade math is my favorite after bedtime activity. It's insane how stupid some of the questions are. Upside, I explain what they are supposed to say and what they do say to my kid so she should be a pretty good thinker..I hope. |
Frankly so jealous of Jamestown. We are in North Arlington and the schools were supposed to be good, but it is such a difference apparently between neighborhoods. Jamestown is apparently amazing and meanwhile we are looking at private school because our neighborhood school is not the best. We should have bought north of Langston. |
Have you hopped over to the private school threads? If you do private, you’ll find something better than Jamestown. I hear ya on the schools, APS could fix it if they wanted to. It’s not right. |
Which NA schools are not as nice as Jamestown? |
Pretty much the rest of them. We bought above Langston and are far from thrilled. |