Data Analysts - Where are you? (CAPE)
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Anonymous
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on the Q on why a Burroughs does better with at risk than a charter, with someone with experience at a Title 1 school and a charter (and whose at-risk kid has never scored a 3 but came close once at the Title 1)...
My take is that the ELA general ed instruction is pitched much higher at the charters with lots of middle and upper middle class kids, which is not great for kids who might be on the 2/3 or even 3/4 bubble... and the special ed staff has more turnover at the lower-paying charters. Also, some of the charters do a lot of group projects, which may not be as well linked to the skills you need for CAPE. The best teacher we ever had was 3rd grade general ed at a Title 1 school. She was a superhero. (Though we do like some of the teachers at the charter very much. Young does not mean not good!) |
Anonymous
Can you post this for Black and Asian students as well? I can't access the spreadsheet. |
Anonymous
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For anyone interested, here are the percentages at select DCPS high schools of students who tested above grade level in the CAPE ELA and math tests:
ELA Walls 66.11 Banneker 36.87 J-R 26.59 McA 5.53 Math Walls 8.43 Banneker 5.8 J-R 1.68 McA 0.00 |
Anonymous
This is not a helpful analysis without an understanding of how to interpret math scores. |
Anonymous
Wow-these schools don't have a lot of higher fliers in math. And MacArthur has a lot of room to improve. |
Anonymous
Here are the actual number of students getting 5s in math and overall number of test takers: Walls 6/32 Banneker 22/379 J-R 10/596 MacA 0/172 |
Anonymous
High fliers in math would have taken the math Parcc in middle school and not show up in a high school's numbers. It's not surprising to me that if kids taking algebra I or geometry in high school, few would score a 5. |
Anonymous
We've been through this. Very few students aren't taking the math PARCC in 9th grade. There were 22 9th graders at JR who took ELA but not math, 13 at SWW, and ZERO at Banneker. We can also look at middle school geometry scores in the state-wide data. They do very well in terms of passage rates, but fewer than 20% of them get a 5. Assign 20% of the missing kids a 5 (assign somewhat more if you assume some of the kids who do less-well in geometry retake it) and those school numbers are not changing much. (At Banneker, they're not changing at all!) |
Anonymous
You have to look at what PARCC test they are taking though. Getting a 3 in Geometry as a 9th grader is not the same thing as being below grade level. |
Anonymous
The quote was "not show up in a high school's numbers", and the implication was that this absence was driving the numbers. It's clearly not. |
Anonymous
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The reality is that many high fliers in math have left DCPS by middle or high school.
The top students are not staying in the system and even less now. |
Anonymous
That's not "the reality"? I'm sure you can find high fliers in math at Walls, JR, BASIS and McKinley Tech. |
Anonymous
Indeed. What a prejudiced take. |
Anonymous
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In 2023 National Merit Semifinalists came from:
Basis SWW And Wilson / Jackson Reed. So, that's at least eight nationally recognized "high fliers" who stayed in the system. |
Anonymous
Ok, well, in that case we're still back to "the 9th grade math data is a fairly accurate representation", which is all I was saying. |