what? Of course, it’s some type of achievement. It is for the student and family to know. It’s their education. |
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| Our years of experience has been to wait for weeks and weeks until after the school year ends. They wanted to handle any and all retakes before they released any scores to the students or parents. Same thing with other standardized tests, such as IReady, the families are left in the dark for months at a time about results. By the time you found out one result, they were taking the next IReady. |
n IME, it varies more by grade level. HS students are told their scores quickly. ES student scores are held longer. |
No one is forced to take a remediation class regardless of SAT score. There is no difference in the reading ability between a kid who scores 399 and a kid who scores 425. |
true, but the IEP meetings just hang their hats on numbers |
According to the Virginia Literacy Act, there is. |
Well one is about a 50% and one is about 60%. You could argue your kid doesn’t know much either way but it’s 10%, of course cheating on the SOL is rampant ever since they started testing on the computer. It’s hardly a reliable measure anymore. |
| This whole process is so stupid |
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what? Of course, it’s some type of achievement. It is for the student and family to know. It’s their education.
Um, no. It's an assessment of whether or not the teacher taught the material correctly and your kid understood it. It's a test of the teacher/curriculum. I have never put any kind of pressure, education or not, on my kids about SOLs and I have never signed a retake form. I also tell them that this is a state-wide test, so the kids in a small school system in rural VA are taking the same test as our kids here in Fairfax County. I'm ok with SOLs but the excessive amount of testing in Fairfax County has become onerous and takes away from class time. |
| It would be nice to know immediately like the MAP scores. |
The kid gets more comfortable taking standardized tests which is generally a good thing. |
| Every school handles it differently. We usually wait a full month after. |
| Now our AP wrote an email saying that the instructions were not read correctly to the students and everyone has the choice to retake it at our school, if they choose so. The problem is: we do not know how the kids did to decide! |
Is the score in SIS? |