How did my kid make honor roll/get good grades yet score so poorly on parcc?

[Anonymous]

8th grade scores just arrived: 724 English, 726 Math.

That's partially meeting expectations and approached expectations (respectively).

Yet my kid earned nearly straight As in middle school and honor roll all three years.

Is this because my kid was a 2.0 Guinea pig? I suspect it isn't since the test scores are compared across the school, district and state.

Yet straight As? What gives?

Anyone else in the same boat?

How worried should I be?

[Anonymous]

My child is similar - straight A’s in IM, 724 on PARCC. He did better in English, but this has been a pattern on PARCC since he started taking it. For what its worth, he did much better on MAP and his scores there are more closely aligned with his performance in school. I’m only worried about having to pass the Algebra I PARCC for now, not about the actual score.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't really mean much of anything which is why it's being canceled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8th grade scores just arrived: 724 English, 726 Math.

That's partially meeting expectations and approached expectations (respectively).

Yet my kid earned nearly straight As in middle school and honor roll all three years.

Is this because my kid was a 2.0 Guinea pig? I suspect it isn't since the test scores are compared across the school, district and state.

Yet straight As? What gives?

Anyone else in the same boat?

How worried should I be?

That was one test, right? A class grade includes things like homework, class participation and usually several assessments. My kid is not a great tester, but he's great at doing and turning in his homework, apparently he participates in class; these things help.

Be worried if you think your child is not learning. You should be able to know this by paying attention and being involved with his learning.

[Anonymous]

Grade inflation? This is a problem at my kid's school.

[Anonymous]

Previous poster. Definitely not grade inflation. Have you ever tried taking a PARCC sample test? It is cumbersome and the questions are often multi-tiered, complex and confusing. I am posting the link here: https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/

OP, I would say as long as your child's MAP scores are high, I wouldn't worry. MAP is normed across the county, state, and country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Previous poster. Definitely not grade inflation. Have you ever tried taking a PARCC sample test? It is cumbersome and the questions are often multi-tiered, complex and confusing. I am posting the link here: https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/

OP, I would say as long as your child's MAP scores are high, I wouldn't worry. MAP is normed across the county, state, and country.

same situation with us! My 5th grader gets As and has high MAP scores, is in compact math; but she did horrible in PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade inflation? This is a problem at my kid's school.

Not my child's experience. The teacher gave him B's in compacted math, but he scored in the 98% in MAP and high 4 on PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Not my kid's experience either. Straight A's in MS. 99%ile in MAP-M and 98% in MAP-R, all 5's in PARCC. He does study at home on his own and through online resources above and beyond what is given in school.

[Anonymous]

My Middle School DS: Bs in class - 5 on PARCC.

My guess is there are things outside of content knowledge that are biasing grading.

[Anonymous]

My child has never got honor student. He merely got A in Algebra I. but he is 98% in MAP-M. For PARCC, he got higher level 4 in Math.
I thought he could get level 5 in Math before. believe MAP-M/R more because it is standard.
My personal opinion PARCC needs to be standardized to be similar as SSAT test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8th grade scores just arrived: 724 English, 726 Math.

That's partially meeting expectations and approached expectations (respectively).

Yet my kid earned nearly straight As in middle school and honor roll all three years.

Is this because my kid was a 2.0 Guinea pig? I suspect it isn't since the test scores are compared across the school, district and state.

Yet straight As? What gives?

Anyone else in the same boat?

How worried should I be?

Maybe because good grades and raw intelligence on the fly are two different things?

[Anonymous]

It's called "Grade Inflation." Next step is "my kid doesn't test well"...

[Anonymous]

You can actually look at your school's data by grade and race to see how other kids did in comparison to yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can actually look at your school's data by grade and race to see how other kids did in comparison to yours.

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/