When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?

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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.

PP here, that's totally possible. But a few other ITDS parents in my kid's grade had the same kind of disparity so I was just wondering.

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Has anyone received their child's scores in the mail yet? Or from their school?

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Just got them from my kid's school. DCPS' testing folks claim they are supposed to be distributed to families by October 15th.

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Anonymous wrote:The overall/school/LEA-specific results are clearly available & obviously this means that individual results exist. Our principal claims that they don't actually have them yet though (ES principal).

Sure, the raw data is all there, but each individual student score report isn't ready yet.

Doubtful. Some people have ask for and received their child's scores.

Yes, the school has a huge spreadsheet full of other people’s children’s sensitive data. Sometimes, if you or (for older students) your child has a good relationship with a teacher or principal, they’ll read you the score off the spreadsheet, as a favor. But they can’t just email the spreadsheet to the listserve. So to get your child’s individual score in writing, you have to wait for the printed score report.

Is it up to the schools to print and mail all the individual score reports? If so, why? That seems like a really inefficient way to disseminate the information, and unnecessarily burdensome for schools.

I believe OSSE prints the individual reports and then sends them to the schools, which need to stuff envelopes and mail them. Some schools pass them out at PT conferences.

I agree it’s absurdly inefficient. I believe part of the issue is that no one ever registers or enrolls with OSSE, so OSSE doesn’t have your address and therefore can’t mail you your child’s report.

But a random vendor for food services has my address?

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But a random vendor for food services has my address?

Haha I know, right? Classic DCPS. Can’t get me my kid’s assessment but can hound me for the $1.90 I owe for a snack.

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Anonymous wrote:But a random vendor for food services has my address?

Haha I know, right? Classic DCPS. Can’t get me my kid’s assessment but can hound me for the $1.90 I owe for a snack.

Or repeatedly send truancy notices for my kids’ excused absences.

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Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

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My 6th grader had fives, but I expected that. Once in the past they got a four, which surprised me.

FWIW the list of topics isn't sequential on the test.

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Anonymous wrote:Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

I think the test is fine and your analysis is right. My kid is a very good test taker and gets 98th or 97th percentile on both sections compared to the rest of the kids in DC. Sometimes these are fives but once (maybe 3rd grade math?) it was a 4. I think the teachers could have done more. This has been at a Title 1, 90 percent minority school btw.

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Anonymous wrote:Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

The test isn't like iReady: The questions are intermixed and the subject areas aren't tested in order. Your kid is actually one who got helpful results in the sense that they clearly have an issue in one category. Figure out why.

I was surprised that my kid just missed a 5 in ELA. School seems good at teaching ELA and kid has always been in the 95-99% range on iReady, so was assuming they'd get a 5; but actually, he just ended up at the bottom of that range here and it's a 4. Subresults aren't helpful since they don't distinguish 4 level performance from 5 level performance and, unsurprisingly, having been just under the 5 cutoff overall, all of these are green. Does anyone know if the arrow pointing in the colored boxes in the subcategories is meant to show the place in each box they fell or just point to the box itself? (I assume the latter, since all of his are in the same place, but it's off center, so maybe it is meaningful?)

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Anonymous wrote:Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

4 is grade level and 3 is below grade level. These results are not great. 5 is above grade level.

You can’t compare yourself to DC kids who overwhelmingly way below and below grade level. Standards and expectations are so low in the city

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fyi to Banneker parents: yesterday at PT conferences they said they had mailed out CAPE scores this week. Not sure why it happened so late, but they are on their way.

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Anonymous wrote:fyi to Banneker parents: yesterday at PT conferences they said they had mailed out CAPE scores this week. Not sure why it happened so late, but they are on their way.

Are CAPE scores even useful to evaluate a school like Banneker (or Walls)? Even JR teachers complain about how, at least for math, most of the kids are past the class they test on. Especially the kids you would expect to do well.

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Anonymous wrote:Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

Your post is so VERY DCUM. Larla didn't do as well as you would have expected so clearly the only possible explanation is "something off with the entire test." Can you really not conceive of a universe where your kid just didn't do that well?

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Anonymous wrote:Got DC cape scores today for 6th grader. Interesting results…kid loves/excels at reading but got a 3 ( 4 points from a 4), loves/excels in math/science where they got 4s. But..what do the results even mean? The breakdown shows that kids did super well in 3/4 categories but bombed the last which leads me to believe that they got bored/rushed through to finish the test. Results state that child did anywhere between 60/80% better than the rest of DC kids but still got 3 and 4s. Curious on others results bc I don’t have any concerns about child academically but can’t help to think there is something off with this entire test. Or maybe it speaks to the need to prep for a test as the school doesn’t do that at all. TIA.

It means your kid is below grade level.