We got our 2019 PARCC results today

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Anonymous wrote:My kid scored in the 99th percentile across the city and was the only one to get fives in his school. I still think it's a terrible test. Most of his smart, accomplished classmates didn't even get "on grade level" (4s) which they clearly are. It's a flawed test.

Not a fan of PARCC (way too long, results not immediate and so not pedagogically useful), but it doesn't test how smart or accomplished a kid is. It attempts to test whether they have learned a set of agreed upon concept and skills for that grade level (common core). If you school isn't teaching this common core or if students at your school aren't learning it, that's a problem for the school and for the kids. Perhaps the PARCC doesn't test it well and the kids are learning it at your school? But then why do kids in JKLM do so well when their schools that do absolutely NO test prep?

Common Core is just general ELA skills kids should know, no different from what a lot of places had in place. Not rocket science: main idea, reading for detail, inference, etc!!! DCPS at the the time adopted PARCC had nothing in place other states did such as Massachusetts. So if you've come from highly-regarded private, the PARCC should be a piece of cake! Honestly kids scoring low need some serious remediation, if it is not due to some other issues (text anxiety, special needs, lack of computer skills, etc), because it is not that difficult. It's just like taking the NAEP, geneal ELA skills most kids should know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your student can easily apply to DC public application high school without PARCC scores and be admitted.

We have a neighbor whose child went from St Peter MS on Capitol Hill to Walls. Another neighbor whose kid went from Sidwell Friends MS to Banneker. Neither student had PARCC scores to submit. I'm told that the kids submitted PSAT or SAT scores in lieu of PARCC scores.

That’s for kids coming outside of public. From what I understand, if you have parcc scores they’re used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid scored in the 99th percentile across the city and was the only one to get fives in his school. I still think it's a terrible test. Most of his smart, accomplished classmates didn't even get "on grade level" (4s) which they clearly are. It's a flawed test.

Not a fan of PARCC (way too long, results not immediate and so not pedagogically useful), but it doesn't test how smart or accomplished a kid is. It attempts to test whether they have learned a set of agreed upon concept and skills for that grade level (common core). If you school isn't teaching this common core or if students at your school aren't learning it, that's a problem for the school and for the kids. Perhaps the PARCC doesn't test it well and the kids are learning it at your school? But then why do kids in JKLM do so well when their schools that do absolutely NO test prep?

Common Core is just general ELA skills kids should know, no different from what a lot of places had in place. Not rocket science: main idea, reading for detail, inference, etc!!! DCPS at the the time adopted PARCC had nothing in place other states did such as Massachusetts. So if you've come from highly-regarded private, the PARCC should be a piece of cake! Honestly kids scoring low need some serious remediation, if it is not due to some other issues (text anxiety, special needs, lack of computer skills, etc), because it is not that difficult. It's just like taking the NAEP, geneal ELA skills most kids should know

Incorrect. DC has the DCCAS, which was the same as what was in Massachusetts, the MCAS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid scored in the 99th percentile across the city and was the only one to get fives in his school. I still think it's a terrible test. Most of his smart, accomplished classmates didn't even get "on grade level" (4s) which they clearly are. It's a flawed test.

Not a fan of PARCC (way too long, results not immediate and so not pedagogically useful), but it doesn't test how smart or accomplished a kid is. It attempts to test whether they have learned a set of agreed upon concept and skills for that grade level (common core). If you school isn't teaching this common core or if students at your school aren't learning it, that's a problem for the school and for the kids. Perhaps the PARCC doesn't test it well and the kids are learning it at your school? But then why do kids in JKLM do so well when their schools that do absolutely NO test prep?

Common Core is just general ELA skills kids should know, no different from what a lot of places had in place. Not rocket science: main idea, reading for detail, inference, etc!!! DCPS at the the time adopted PARCC had nothing in place other states did such as Massachusetts. So if you've come from highly-regarded private, the PARCC should be a piece of cake! Honestly kids scoring low need some serious remediation, if it is not due to some other issues (text anxiety, special needs, lack of computer skills, etc), because it is not that difficult. It's just like taking the NAEP, geneal ELA skills most kids should know

Incorrect. DC has the DCCAS, which was the same as what was in Massachusetts, the MCAS.

DCCAS was a joke absolutely no near what Massachusetts had, they had the best assessment in the country, hence why did not sign on for the CORE. Go back and look at old tests, I'll wait...they were a joke. If you've been in DC for awhile you know the history re. curriculum before and post Rhee, but that's a whole other story. DC CAS indeed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your student can easily apply to DC public application high school without PARCC scores and be admitted.

We have a neighbor whose child went from St Peter MS on Capitol Hill to Walls. Another neighbor whose kid went from Sidwell Friends MS to Banneker. Neither student had PARCC scores to submit. I'm told that the kids submitted PSAT or SAT scores in lieu of PARCC scores.

That’s for kids coming outside of public. From what I understand, if you have parcc scores they’re used.

You can still submit PSAT or SAT scores when applying to DC public application schools if your DCPS or DCPCS student took PARCC. And if you opted out in 7th grade, not a problem if no PARCC scores accompany a Walls, Banneker, Ellington etc. application as long as the 8th grade SAT score is 600+. My kid has several pals who opted out of PARCC at Deal who were admitted to Walls in the spring. They did well on the SAT for 8th graders. You can spend the PARCC testing week having the kid to SAT prep. You can march to your own drummer and accrue the benefit by doing something more useful than following the crowd.

[Anonymous]

Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

[Anonymous]

No, I wouldn't take the silly PARCC seriously. So many answers are poorly worded, that with your kid could have scored higher, maybe a lot higher, on a quality exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

No. Your kid has mastered everything well for their grade. 5s are meant to be rare and denote having mastered above grade content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

No. Your kid has mastered everything well for their grade. 5s are meant to be rare and denote having mastered above grade content.

The 4 is the score that matters -- it is set at a level that shows the child has mastered the material for the grade, or not. Among the students passing the 4 threshold, 5s are set by an arbitrary cut off to capture the top micro percentage of kids' scores on that test at that sitting. It's the extra "gold star" given to top students, but all 4s "got an A."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

No. Your kid has mastered everything well for their grade. 5s are meant to be rare and denote having mastered above grade content.

The 4 is the score that matters -- it is set at a level that shows the child has mastered the material for the grade, or not. Among the students passing the 4 threshold, 5s are set by an arbitrary cut off to capture the top micro percentage of kids' scores on that test at that sitting. It's the extra "gold star" given to top students, but all 4s "got an A."

I wouldn't be disappointed in them, but you should be ashamed of your parenting for letting them down. If they are not getting 5s, then they are not getting into an Ivy (never mind a good Ivy). As we all know if they don't get into a good Ivy, then they are going to be living in your basement for the rest of their lives. Even worse, they are going to be a leech on the system and require my high performing kids to support them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to be disappointed if your kid only hit high 4s?

No. Your kid has mastered everything well for their grade. 5s are meant to be rare and denote having mastered above grade content.

The 4 is the score that matters -- it is set at a level that shows the child has mastered the material for the grade, or not. Among the students passing the 4 threshold, 5s are set by an arbitrary cut off to capture the top micro percentage of kids' scores on that test at that sitting. It's the extra "gold star" given to top students, but all 4s "got an A."

I wouldn't be disappointed in them, but you should be ashamed of your parenting for letting them down. If they are not getting 5s, then they are not getting into an Ivy (never mind a good Ivy). As we all know if they don't get into a good Ivy, then they are going to be living in your basement for the rest of their lives. Even worse, they are going to be a leech on the system and require my high performing kids to support them.

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