SOLs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone able to give a rough idea of what a 514 in math would be percentile wise? Little concerned that a 99th percentile iready and COGAT kid with math as biggest strength would get that.

The report that is sent in the summer will give you a score breakdown by section. I don’t think it tells you the number of questions missed but the score for each subsection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just looked and SOL scores are up for my ES child, too. Second year in a row that they failed the math SOL. We were not offered summer school, no one has ever mentioned the need for math remediation to us. Thanks, elementary school!!

Guess we'll be looking for a math program this summer.

what grade did they fail?

[Anonymous]

My kid got 600 on math , but only 510 on reading. I was surprised, I know it’s still passed advanced, but barely… how many right/wrong questions would that be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got 600 on math , but only 510 on reading. I was surprised, I know it’s still passed advanced, but barely… how many right/wrong questions would that be?

Nobody knows anymore, now that the tests are adaptive. It depends which questions were missed.

In the old days of 50 straight multiple choice questions, they used to send out scoring charts, but it's been years since that was true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid got 600 on math , but only 510 on reading. I was surprised, I know it’s still passed advanced, but barely… how many right/wrong questions would that be?

We will get a more detailed report during the summer. It doesn’t tell you the number of questions that were correct but a score for each section.

DS saw a drop in the reading SOL this year, he went from a 574 to a 511. His iReady scores in LA have been awful all year. I have no clue how to read this and communication with the school on this has been ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anyone notice a drop in their kids SOLs between last year and this year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The scores are up. Does anyone know how to determine percentiles?

There is a Reston-based entrepreneur who must have FOIA'd the full set of SOL statistics, computed the percentiles and is offering them for sale one score at a time if you subscribe to their service: https://www.peerpowerinc.com/ I haven't used their service so can't comment on whether or how well it works, but I thought I share this pointer.

Except the score distributions (how many students got a particular score) change (and can change significantly) year to year. You can look at the SOL score distribution by fail/pass/pass advanced for previous years across the state, by school system, by individual school using this tool: https://p1pe.doe.virginia.gov/apex_captcha/home.do?apexTypeId=306. If you run historical data, you will see that the % of students at each level changes.

There can be yearly variations in SOL pass rates due to technical changes in tests and scoring. Examples include: 1) SOLs are revised every seven years; 2) elementary and middle school re-takes began in 2014-15; 3) cut scores were lowered in 2019 for math and 2021 for english.

[Anonymous]

SOL is criterion-referenced, not norm-referenced, so there are no percentiles. I’d be skeptical of any one who claims to have percentiles for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SOL is criterion-referenced, not norm-referenced, so there are no percentiles. I’d be skeptical of any one who claims to have percentiles for them.

Check your child’s document section. There is a letter from the State that puts your child’s SOL scores based on percentiles on a chart. According to said letter, my child was in the 99th percentile in 3rd and 4th grade for both math and reading.

I am not worried about a drop in scores. The tests are adaptive and scored funny and stuff happens on test days. DS passed Advanced but his scores are not identical year to year. They continue to be in the same general range.

I do wish that the tests were not adaptive so that you could actually measure where kids are. I don’t see why a test to make sure kids have learned the base line material is adaptive but that is just me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice a drop in their kids SOLs between last year and this year?

No, thankfully a rise! The executive functioning skills improve each year allowing more focus and attending to a task.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SOL is criterion-referenced, not norm-referenced, so there are no percentiles. I’d be skeptical of any one who claims to have percentiles for them.

Check your child’s document section. There is a letter from the State that puts your child’s SOL scores based on percentiles on a chart. According to said letter, my child was in the 99th percentile in 3rd and 4th grade for both math and reading.

I am not worried about a drop in scores. The tests are adaptive and scored funny and stuff happens on test days. DS passed Advanced but his scores are not identical year to year. They continue to be in the same general range.

I do wish that the tests were not adaptive so that you could actually measure where kids are. I don’t see why a test to make sure kids have learned the base line material is adaptive but that is just me.

Agree. Adaptive also precludes kids from going back to questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice a drop in their kids SOLs between last year and this year?

Yes. SOL Reading: 579 in 4 grade and 509 in 5 grade.

[Anonymous]

Just checked my DC scores(8th grade), a huge jump from last year for science and reading but drops in math from 600. She admitted she made a few mistakes in math(algebra 2) and did well in reading and science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone notice a drop in their kids SOLs between last year and this year?

Yes. SOL Reading: 579 in 4 grade and 509 in 5 grade.

Similar, but even worse here. 4th grade reading was almost perfect, 5th grade was high pass-proficient. Math also went from something in the 550 range to high 400s!

[Anonymous]

I don't know why people expect their child to get the same score every year. It's a different year, different material, maybe the tests have changed.