We got our 2019 PARCC results today

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

They include relative percentages, you performed better than X% of the students in your school and Y% of the students in DCPS, etc.

Op didn’t say anything about %. Just score. A 5 is great. Just let her be happy about. Sheesh.

I think it’s great. We had almost no 5’s in our entire HRCS.

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

A 5 in math says you are exceeded the level of knowledge expected of student who completed a full year of X grade math.

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Anonymous wrote:I showed them to my DS 4th grader. Do kids bring up how they did in school or do they not care?

My 3rd grader cares and wanted to look at them before we did. She didn't do great (a high 3 and a low 4), but she has some attention issues, so it wasn't very surprising. Apparently, the test is not easy for everyone, even for kids who are smart. I was interested in seeing the range of scores as well as the breakdown, but the latter wasn't very informative (it only says if your kid meets or surpasses expectations or is below, so we have no idea where they are on that curve).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

They include relative percentages, you performed better than X% of the students in your school and Y% of the students in DCPS, etc.

Op didn’t say anything about %. Just score. A 5 is great. Just let her be happy about. Sheesh.

I was responding to the PP that states the score isn’t relative. I personally have found the info re scores relative to other kids in the school is too much info, especially in a smaller school.

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I'm wondering, too, if parents talk to their kids about their scores, or if teachers talk about specific scores in school. I'll ask our teachers, but it seems like there's not much point to talk about scores when they came from the preceding year.

My parents never told me my standardized test scores, other to say that I did fine. I didn't find out until cleaning out their files that I was consistently 99 percentile. I'm thankful that they didn't tell me, because I probably would have acted like an even bigger know-it-all than I was already. I now know that they're not very meaningful indicators, but I don't think I would have understood that as a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm wondering, too, if parents talk to their kids about their scores, or if teachers talk about specific scores in school. I'll ask our teachers, but it seems like there's not much point to talk about scores when they came from the preceding year.

My parents never told me my standardized test scores, other to say that I did fine. I didn't find out until cleaning out their files that I was consistently 99 percentile. I'm thankful that they didn't tell me, because I probably would have acted like an even bigger know-it-all than I was already. I now know that they're not very meaningful indicators, but I don't think I would have understood that as a kid.

We don’t talk about specific scores unless our kids ask and fortunately, their scores usually are not cause for concern (their issues are in other areas! ). Unfortunately, other kids know their scored and as they get older, they talk about them and compare with others.

I do wish the schools would email the scores or send the by mail. I think this would cut down on the discussion and allow kids with lower scores a chance to digest them before having to talk about them at recess or after school.

Yes, I know kids will talk but I do think schools could be more sensitive to the kids who don’t test well.

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They could also be more sensitive to kids who don't test at all. Some of us opt out.

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My kids know their scores and we discuss that it is not something you talk about and compare because it could make some kids feel bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations!

Your enthusiasm for PARCC testing has made James Fallon, the Pearson Ed CEO, his shareholders, and the many highly-paid OSSE consultants who massage the data that tiny bit wealthier! Why should Fallon settle for a net worth of hundreds of millions when the sky's the limit?

10 hours of testing for a 9 or 10 year old via a poorly designed and worded test, hurrah!!

Your kid bombed it, eh?

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Anonymous wrote:They could also be more sensitive to kids who don't test at all. Some of us opt out.

No, they shouldn’t. You want to be an anti-social freak, there are natural consequences for it. No one needs to tread lightly because of your strange choices.

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations!

Your enthusiasm for PARCC testing has made James Fallon, the Pearson Ed CEO, his shareholders, and the many highly-paid OSSE consultants who massage the data that tiny bit wealthier! Why should Fallon settle for a net worth of hundreds of millions when the sky's the limit?

10 hours of testing for a 9 or 10 year old via a poorly designed and worded test, hurrah!!

Your kid bombed it, eh?

Sorry to disappoint you, no. We've opted out every year that DC has gone with the PARCC. We were OK with the DC-CAS for our older child.

Younger kid scored in 600s on SAT in 7th grade, qualifying for a Johns Hopkins CTY GT summer camp in the process.

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Anonymous wrote:They could also be more sensitive to kids who don't test at all. Some of us opt out.

No, they shouldn’t. You want to be an anti-social freak, there are natural consequences for it. No one needs to tread lightly because of your strange choices.

Without a citizen's right to engage in peaceful acts of civil disobedience as their conscience dictates we would not live in a democracy. Personal choices need to be respected for our political system to develop and thrive.

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Anonymous wrote:They could also be more sensitive to kids who don't test at all. Some of us opt out.

How could they be more sensitive?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations!

Your enthusiasm for PARCC testing has made James Fallon, the Pearson Ed CEO, his shareholders, and the many highly-paid OSSE consultants who massage the data that tiny bit wealthier! Why should Fallon settle for a net worth of hundreds of millions when the sky's the limit?

10 hours of testing for a 9 or 10 year old via a poorly designed and worded test, hurrah!!

Your kid bombed it, eh?

Sorry to disappoint you, no. We've opted out every year that DC has gone with the PARCC. We were OK with the DC-CAS for our older child.

Younger kid scored in 600s on SAT in 7th grade, qualifying for a Johns Hopkins CTY GT summer camp in the process.

OP here. Who’s bragging now?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

They include relative percentages, you performed better than X% of the students in your school and Y% of the students in DCPS, etc.

Op didn’t say anything about %. Just score. A 5 is great. Just let her be happy about. Sheesh.

OP here. Thank you! Also I was not bragging, just sharing facts. I’m happy because my child is 2e with severe anxiety. I would not have been surprised if DC got 1s or 5s. DC has the intelligence to get 6 or 7 if they were available, like the kids in Singapore mentioned by the PO but with her anxiety and other issues in the classrooms, DC also could have scored 1s or 2s and I was prepared for either. And to the PP talking about relativity, the 5 in math means DC scored in the 98th percentile in DC.