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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What data or report are you looking at?

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2022/0823/StandardSettingProgressOverviewStateAssessmentsTimelineUpdateSpring2022ResultsV2.pdf is a report from this summer about status of transition rom PARCC to MCAP and it say that standard setting is still ongoing for science (MISA) and social studies, and will utilize 2022-23 school year data.

Also, consider that 8th graders last spring started middle school in 6th grade with a normal 2.5 quarters, asynchronous end of 6th, virtual 7th, and then a return to a weird in-person 8th grade, at the end of which they are tested on 3 years worth of middle school science. I wouldn’t expect any kid to actually be exceeding expectations under those circumstances (but I don’t think they had a benchmark set).[/quote]

I received the same report yesterday. My child didn’t do well (low level 3) on the test but apparently still did better than the majority of MCPS kids and that’s abysmal. But I have to agree that being sent home in the middle of sixth grade with having seventh and eighth either virtual or hybrid was majorly impactful, not only for my own child but for the whole county.[/quote]

Of course it was!  Plenty of us felt that schools were closed much longer than they needed to be.  The Algebra results were horrible last year.  Our kids were definitely negatively impacted by the school closures and I don’t see enough acknowledgment of that by the BOE and MCPS.  [/quote]

It turns out all the studies done show there was just as much loss at schools that stayed open and the problem was the actual pandemic. Go figure.[/quote]

I have seen studies showing the opposite. What study are you looking at?[/quote]

All the ones published in mainstream journals.[/quote]

There are reports on the studies in the NY Times[/quote]

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