Do SOL scores reflect a child’s academic performance?

[Anonymous]

And where would a score 500 rank for a 5th grader? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

NO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO

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[Anonymous]

Yes, they absolutely should. The PPs saying no must have AAP kids who did not pass advance. So they tell themselves that SOL performance doesn't matter and their kids are still brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they absolutely should. The PPs saying no must have AAP kids who did not pass advance. So they tell themselves that SOL performance doesn't matter and their kids are still brilliant.

Should vs does are two very different. I heard SOL mainly matters on 6th grade SOL results for advanced math; otherwise, doesnt matter at all if DC gtes a pass proficient or pass advanced.

Do colleges care?!?!?! No!

[Anonymous]

Weren't there posts earlier about how Reading was unusually or inappropriately difficult this year?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they absolutely should. The PPs saying no must have AAP kids who did not pass advance. So they tell themselves that SOL performance doesn't matter and their kids are still brilliant.

Totally wrong. I said no, and my child is both in AAP LIV and pass advanced. So what though? SOL performance really isn’t that big a deal.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they absolutely should. The PPs saying no must have AAP kids who did not pass advance. So they tell themselves that SOL performance doesn't matter and their kids are still brilliant.

Totally wrong. I said no, and my child is both in AAP LIV and pass advanced. So what though? SOL performance really isn’t that big a deal.

Exactly! SOL is to measure the school's performance more than the kids. My DC is I'm AAP and got pass in reading and advanced in math. Soooo what? Nothing. I'm more about DC's report card and how well they do throughout the whole school year. The standrads test I care about is the SAT - not SOLs.

[Anonymous]

For my child, they are correlated but he's also a great test taker.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they absolutely should. The PPs saying no must have AAP kids who did not pass advance. So they tell themselves that SOL performance doesn't matter and their kids are still brilliant.

Totally wrong. I said no, and my child is both in AAP LIV and pass advanced. So what though? SOL performance really isn’t that big a deal.

Exactly! SOL is to measure the school's performance more than the kids. My DC is I'm AAP and got pass in reading and advanced in math. Soooo what? Nothing. I'm more about DC's report card and how well they do throughout the whole school year. The standrads test I care about is the SAT - not SOLs.

Same. AAP here. Pass proficient in Reading and Pass Advanced in math. DC is weaker in Lang arts though.

[Anonymous]

I know of an AAP kid who failed the reading SOL but it won't affect him unless the parents decide to pull him out of AAP (which they won't).

[Anonymous]

My kid is in 4th grade.

Last year he got pass advanced on reading (but barely over 500) and a 600 in math.
This year he got a high 400 in reading which is only a regular pass, pass advanced in math, and a 600 in VA history. I have to assume VA history was very easy but I really have no idea.

We didn’t do anything like prep for the tests. He’s an avid reader but he has adhd and literally reads so fast. He could probably use some work on learning to re-read and go back to the text to answer the questions.

I don’t know how anyone else did - I don’t ask people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 4th grade.

Last year he got pass advanced on reading (but barely over 500) and a 600 in math.
This year he got a high 400 in reading which is only a regular pass, pass advanced in math, and a 600 in VA history. I have to assume VA history was very easy but I really have no idea.

We didn’t do anything like prep for the tests. He’s an avid reader but he has adhd and literally reads so fast. He could probably use some work on learning to re-read and go back to the text to answer the questions.

I don’t know how anyone else did - I don’t ask people.

Oh and does this reflect his academic performance? Not directly and I don’t think it affects his grade but I do think math is a strength for him at least in the academic sense. He likes to read but we work with him on trying to help him understand how to answer these school questions about the reading. It doesn’t come naturally to him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For my child, they are correlated but he's also a great test taker.

This, they are correlated, but there is quite a bit of variance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And where would a score 500 rank for a 5th grader? Thanks.

VDOE has an online tool that shows you pass rates and advanced pass rates.

Based on this, for example, for Fairfax county, grade 5, a 500 (assuming that's the lowest advanced pass score) would put you in the 72% percentile or English, 85% percentile for Math, and 76% in Science (2017-2018). In all of Virginia, it would be roughly 76%, 77%, and 80%, respectively. (Odd that Fairfax had only 15% advanced pass in Math in 2017/2018.)

I'm wondering, though, if the state publishes more fine-grained information about their score distributions than pass/advanced pass. I'm also wondering how the adaptive test is structured in the upper portion of the performance spectrum. Is it more like a regular test, where an A student would score perfectly or maybe miss one, or does it ramp up and tries to discern between those that are more than 2 SD from the mean? Does anybody know?