Our middle school uses PARCC as a factor in math placement. |
DC has announced that individual student score reports will go to schools and are expected to be distributed by schools to families in mid-September. |
I have no compunctions in saying that I think parents should have access to the results at a reasonably early and transparent date, instead of the school-level free for all. The point of testing is to identify strengths and weaknesses and I want to know before the school starts. And yes, placements can be adjusted based on PARCC. |
+1. |
That read doesn't make sense because I'm comparing it to how other schools do with "not at risk" kids. Apples to apples comparison. My school actually has a more mixed economic population/a fair number of at risk kids too, so it's not like these kids are among the wealthiest in DC (in fact they are definitely not). Also, keep in mind there very much are schools with the opposite profile. Comparatively well with at risk kids; comparatively poorly with non-at risk kids. Likely at least in part due to their choice of focus. |
What do you mean by this exactly? You can sort for "white" on the Empower dashboard FWIW. Our school is in the top 10 for white scores. |
How? I can only find filters for At risk vs. not, Black, Hispanic, Asian, English learners, students with disabilities |
Nevermind, just figured out I could scroll for it |
When you sort by "white/Caucasian" the margins become so thin that the top 10 distinction becomes less meaningful, which I think may have been the point PP was trying to make (though they clearly hadn't looked at the data and were guessing) |
Yes, was guessing, but also the point I was making, everything gets so clustered, I'm not sure what an actual statistically meaningful difference is here.... |
Is there a way to compare my school's 3rd grade to all other 3rd grade classes on Empower? Like sort all 3rd grade proficiency levels for ELA to see where we fall? |
Not in Empower, but if you use filters on the spreadsheet you can do it. |
One of these things is not like the others... |
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This, this, this!! if you have a higher performing kid, I don’t care about at risk. I care bout overall scores and how many are at least on or above for peer groups. |