Reply to looking for feedback on Project Lead The Way Engineering in MCPS High Schools

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "looking for feedback on Project Lead The Way Engineering in MCPS High Schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My son is in the engineering academy at Wheaton (waitlisted for the magnet but did not get in). At Wheaton he can take the same PLTW courses as the magnet kids, but I wish he was allowed to take the magnet courses, because the teachers seem to be better. Some teachers do teach both magnet and academy courses. He struggled this year gradewise, in part due to communication challenges with a teacher, but then did well (I think) on the End-of-course PLTW exams (high "accomplished" level). 
   As of the 2023-2024 school year, these exams count for 20% of the grade. In his case it comes as a relief because it will bring his grades up in two classes. However, I am disappointed in MCPS and marylandschools.org, in that the results are not sent home although they are the equivalent of the MCAP; there are no sample assessment scores provided as examples to aid in evaluating scores (between 100-600, corresponding to Novice, Practiced, Accomplished or Distinguished, but the scores at each level differ among courses), and no way to know either how the EOC score translates to a letter grade (for that 20%), or how your child compares to others in their school, their district, or the state. The district and state focus on reading and math scores, and more recently science and Government (neither test has been administered as yet to my rising Junior), but have not yet caught on to the need for achievement in STEM courses to be tracked in the same way. The curriculum has been contracted out to PLTW, but evaluation of assessment scores is not even available on the organization's website. Some other states offer achievement charts, but all that I found were at least 6 years old (pre-covid and potentially outdated).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics