Do SOL scores reflect a child’s academic performance?

[Anonymous]

There's a $24/yr subscription service called https://www.peerpowerinc.com/ that claims to be the only provider of percentile information for SOL results. According to their FAQ, they get the anonymized data from the state and provide state, district, and school percentiles for each scaled SOL score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And where would a score 500 rank for a 5th grader? Thanks.

VDOE has an online tool that shows you pass rates and advanced pass rates.

Based on this, for example, for Fairfax county, grade 5, a 500 (assuming that's the lowest advanced pass score) would put you in the 72% percentile or English, 85% percentile for Math, and 76% in Science (2017-2018). In all of Virginia, it would be roughly 76%, 77%, and 80%, respectively. (Odd that Fairfax had only 15% advanced pass in Math in 2017/2018.)

I'm wondering, though, if the state publishes more fine-grained information about their score distributions than pass/advanced pass. I'm also wondering how the adaptive test is structured in the upper portion of the performance spectrum. Is it more like a regular test, where an A student would score perfectly or maybe miss one, or does it ramp up and tries to discern between those that are more than 2 SD from the mean? Does anybody know?

The SOLs are not geared to provide fine differentiation at the higher levels once you are past "pass proficient". The adaptive test is mainly structured to support quickly getting a kid over the pass proficient level not to make increasingly fine discernment at the upper levels.