FYI - a 600 on the sol doesn’t mean a perfect score.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does this post exist?

It's providing another reason for parents to be disappointed in their kids. A 600 might be mean all correct answers. They may have gotten a question wrong. So a 600 is a lousy score.

Please. The scoring is confusing and little is done to explain what is happening with the scores. Why is a perfect score not a 600?

The SOLs don’t mean anything, except for 6th grade math. But I do appreciate understanding what the scores are telling me. The reality is DS has always passed advanced which tells me only that he is meeting the minimum standard that the state has set. That said, it would be great to know why a perfect score is not a 600 and why a score that is not perfect is a perfect score.

What are you talking about?

Have you heard of verified credits in high school?

Do you realize that not passing an SOL in sixth or seventh grade can lead to students losing an elective in middle school because they are put into a math remediation or reading remediation elective?

This is the AAP forum. The program runs through 8th grade and the kids in AAP are highly unlikely to up in remediation. SOLs are pretty much worthless for them.

This forum also incorporates TJ, which is high school.

I am an AAP teacher. I have had a number of students over the years who did not pass the previous year's SOL(s). While it isn't common, there have been a few who have been in that boat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does this post exist?

It's providing another reason for parents to be disappointed in their kids. A 600 might be mean all correct answers. They may have gotten a question wrong. So a 600 is a lousy score.

Please. The scoring is confusing and little is done to explain what is happening with the scores. Why is a perfect score not a 600?

The SOLs don’t mean anything, except for 6th grade math. But I do appreciate understanding what the scores are telling me. The reality is DS has always passed advanced which tells me only that he is meeting the minimum standard that the state has set. That said, it would be great to know why a perfect score is not a 600 and why a score that is not perfect is a perfect score.

What are you talking about?

Have you heard of verified credits in high school?

Do you realize that not passing an SOL in sixth or seventh grade can lead to students losing an elective in middle school because they are put into a math remediation or reading remediation elective?

This is the AAP forum. The program runs through 8th grade and the kids in AAP are highly unlikely to up in remediation. SOLs are pretty much worthless for them.

This forum also incorporates TJ, which is high school.

I am an AAP teacher. I have had a number of students over the years who did not pass the previous year's SOL(s). While it isn't common, there have been a few who have been in that boat.

I doubt that there are that many students at TJ struggling with SOLs. Between the kids grades and motivation, whether that is parent driven or student driven, I would guess that TJ kids pass their SOLs without much of a problem.

You are discussing the rare case of AAP kids not passing SOLs in ES when they mean nothing. An AAP kid not passing their SOL, barring some type of unusual circumstance, is a sign that the child doesn’t belong in AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's an adaptive test, so why does it matter whether they got any problems wrong? It's much more cumbersome to refer to your kid's 600 as a "highest possible score" rather than a "perfect score"

Why does one need to "refer" to the score at all?

[Anonymous]

SOL is not adaptive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SOL is not adaptive.

It is.

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/student-assessment/virginia-sol-assessment-program/computer-adaptive-testing-cat