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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]	
Form the DCPS Website http://dc.gov/DCPS/In+the+Classroom/What+Students+Are+Learning/DCPS+Common+Core+State+Standards

"if you’re a DC student who just makes proficiency on the DC CAS, that level of proficiency translates to only a 16th percentile score on the SAT."

That is not a high bar. Shouldn't 50th percentile be the minimum required for proficient?  16 percentile seems weak. [/quote]

Exactly. And it's not mentioned on the link you provided, and I don't have a link, but I recall hearing that "advanced" translates to the 50th percentile. So if you're school isn't scoring 50% advanced or higher, it's below average nationwide.  Pretty sobering.

I have a degree in applied mathematics, studied a lot of statistics, and I have to say if you were to design a system for reporting results to be as uninformative as possible and to make meaningful comparisons impossible, you'd come up with something like the way the DCCAS results are reported. Can you think of anything that's measured this way, where you make four buckets and count how many go in each bucket?  As a PP noted, they have the raw scores as numbers. They could easily report results using time-honored statistics like average, median, standard deviation. Clearly, they don't want to.[/quote]

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