When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?

[Anonymous]

Lee has sent them home. Earlier this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone heard anything further on this from their school? I heard that at least one MS charter had given out scores, but I'm not sure if it's official score reports or something else.

Our DCPS is still saying that it could be months...

I would love for parents to really start questioning DCPS as to what is the point of this test. If it’s to inform parents of how good a school is then the data needs to be available in the early summer/end of school year. If it’s to inform parents and teachers of individual student strengths and weaknesses so they can be supported then they need to get them at the beginning of the school year. It’s honestly a really stupid test with very little meaning to help support students. Just use one of the twenty other tests you make kids take the measure growth (iReady, MAP, reading inventory, etc.)

Yes, please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone heard anything further on this from their school? I heard that at least one MS charter had given out scores, but I'm not sure if it's official score reports or something else.

Our DCPS is still saying that it could be months...

I would love for parents to really start questioning DCPS as to what is the point of this test. If it’s to inform parents of how good a school is then the data needs to be available in the early summer/end of school year. If it’s to inform parents and teachers of individual student strengths and weaknesses so they can be supported then they need to get them at the beginning of the school year. It’s honestly a really stupid test with very little meaning to help support students. Just use one of the twenty other tests you make kids take the measure growth (iReady, MAP, reading inventory, etc.)

The problem isn't the test. The problem is schools dragging their feet when it comes to giving us the results. I am all in favor of standardized tests. Schools here, generally speaking, are bad. Even the good schools are not very good. We need standardized tests to keep these schools honest and so we can see how kids are doing compared to kids in other states. Children also need to learn to take standardized tests. It's a skill, and they need to practice it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone heard anything further on this from their school? I heard that at least one MS charter had given out scores, but I'm not sure if it's official score reports or something else.

Our DCPS is still saying that it could be months...

I would love for parents to really start questioning DCPS as to what is the point of this test. If it’s to inform parents of how good a school is then the data needs to be available in the early summer/end of school year. If it’s to inform parents and teachers of individual student strengths and weaknesses so they can be supported then they need to get them at the beginning of the school year. It’s honestly a really stupid test with very little meaning to help support students. Just use one of the twenty other tests you make kids take the measure growth (iReady, MAP, reading inventory, etc.)

The problem isn't the test. The problem is schools dragging their feet when it comes to giving us the results. I am all in favor of standardized tests. Schools here, generally speaking, are bad. Even the good schools are not very good. We need standardized tests to keep these schools honest and so we can see how kids are doing compared to kids in other states. Children also need to learn to take standardized tests. It's a skill, and they need to practice it.

But wouldn't it be nicer to have test data available before the first day of school, for planning purposes?

[Anonymous]

Have any DCPS sent them out yet? Our school is claiming they still don't have them and I notice all the reports on here are charter schools. Does DCPS somehow add an additional layer of bureaucracy that means charters get them directly from OSSE but DCPSes are waiting on DCPS Central to distribute them to schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any DCPS sent them out yet? Our school is claiming they still don't have them and I notice all the reports on here are charter schools. Does DCPS somehow add an additional layer of bureaucracy that means charters get them directly from OSSE but DCPSes are waiting on DCPS Central to distribute them to schools?

I’m a DCPS teacher and our principal has shared overall data (increase in X subject, decrease in Y subject) but nothing for individual students. I don’t teach math or ELA though.

[Anonymous]

Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

What school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

What school?

ITDS. The CAPE scores are much lower than her MAP scores and last year's PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

What school?

ITDS. The CAPE scores are much lower than her MAP scores and last year's PARCC.

Our kids CAPE scores are mostly aligned to MAP. Like one percentage point apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

What school?

ITDS. The CAPE scores are much lower than her MAP scores and last year's PARCC.

Our kids CAPE scores are mostly aligned to MAP. Like one percentage point apart.

(Also at ITDS)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

Overall results for the city are very slightly improved across the board, so no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

What school?

ITDS. The CAPE scores are much lower than her MAP scores and last year's PARCC.

This probably just means your kid had a bad testing day on the CAPE. As far as I can tell, the ONLY benefit of all these assessments is getting a slightly broader (rather than one point in time) sense of kid's test performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

Overall results for the city are very slightly improved across the board, so no.

That doesn't answer the question about consistency with MAP though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just opened my kid's CAPE scores and they're worse than her PARCC scores last year. Have others noticed that?

Overall results for the city are very slightly improved across the board, so no.

That doesn't answer the question about consistency with MAP though.

That’s true, but given that she also mentioned last year’s PARCC, seems pretty clear her kid had a bad day vs some systemic issue with the test.