I wonder roughly what percentage of 3rd graders get 600 on both subjects
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Anonymous
Source please? |
Anonymous
| This forum makes you think getting a perfect score is a regular occurrence but my son’s special ed teacher (he’s 2E) told me he got the highest reading SOL score in his 3rd grade AAP class this year with a score in the 560s. We are at a reputable AAP center so I was surprised to hear this. |
Anonymous
DP. I think PP mixed up pass advanced with 600. |
Anonymous
With a 560 that means he probably only missed 2 questions - still something to be very proud of. |
Anonymous
Hahahshha! So many holes in this post. At least put some descent effort to make it some what based on real possibility. Hope no one fell for this troll! |
Anonymous
How did you calculate that each question is weighted at only 20? |
Anonymous
It says so on the next to last page of this PDF. |
Anonymous
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing. I was really mad at DS for getting 530, as I thought DS must have got about 10 wrong, whereas per your PDF it could be only 4 wrong. My Ignorance....need to buy DS something nice. |
Anonymous
The link doesn’t seem accurate for this year. My son’s scores aren’t even listed in the table. |
Anonymous
The first page says that it was a test from 2015. I think they've switched to more computer-adaptive tests since which don't map to a proportional score. That said, given how easy this test is, it makes sense that you need something like 36/40 for an advanced pass (corresponding to an A-/A letter grade). The "pass" cutoff is 65% for this example which is roughly the D cutoff for letter grades. Make sense to me. |
Anonymous
| If you look at the VDOE website under "released tests", you'll see that scoring varied each year. With some tests, you could actually miss one or two and still get a 600. Then if you miss three it might drop down to, say, 573. I don't know how they come up with these crazy scoring formulas. |
Anonymous
A couple years back, they made the SOLs harder. You may not believe it, but they're no longer easy peasy tests. |
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I don't know if the link will work, but VDOE has the percentages of pass advanced scores for both FCPS and the state as a whole. http://schoolquality.virginia.gov/divisions/fairfax-county-public-schools#desktopTabs-2
Last year, in FCPS 20% of 3rd graders had pass advanced in reading and 21% in math. In VA as a whole, 18% had pass advanced in reading and 18% in math. Some kids will be pass advanced in one but not the other, so less than 20% would be pass advanced in both. Only some fraction of pass advanced scores are perfect scores, so I would guess the percent of 3rd graders with perfect scores on both is very small. The difference between a perfect score and a mere pass advanced is probably that the perfect kid is more detail oriented and less prone to careless mistakes. I wouldn't take it as a special sign of mastery or brilliance. |
Anonymous
It actually appears each question is weighted by 7. Scores are going up in increments of 7. Regardless, this is not accurate for this year’s test. We have a computer adaptive test now. It completely changes the scoring. Not each kid actually gets the same test now. |
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There's a website run by Michael Nolan called "PeerPower" who claims to have exclusive access to detailed SOL scores and sells you 25 queries per year for $24. (You put in the score, you get back the percentile.) If you spend enough, you can figure out how many points off a question is.
Wonder how they get the data. Perhaps they FOIA'd it and need to recoup the cost (?) |