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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For clarification the cutoff is the lower of a building norm or the national norm. I believe the national norm is 132. No school will have a higher cutoff than the national norm, but some schools may be lower.

Not sure why 137 poster didn't get an email, but it's making me hope that maybe not all the emails were sent out or some schools are doing a different way or are behind. [/quote]

Cite?[/quote]

Not PP, but this is where people (including myself until I read the Brabrand Briefing) were getting that from, the 12/3/2020 SB meeting where the motion was passed to do this:

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I move that in School Year 2020-21, for schools with an AAP Local Level IV or AAP Level IV Center, the pool of second grade students to be screened for AAP Level IV services will be identified by piloting the use local building norms, while ensuring that any student who meets the national norm is also identified for screening. In schools that do not yet have a Level IV program, national norms will continue to be used to identify students for eligibility screening.

Motion by Stella Pekarsky - Vice Chair, second by Laura Jane H Cohen.
Final Resolution: Motion Carries
Yes: Megan McLaughlin, Ricardy J Anderson - Chair, Melanie K Meren, Rachna S Heizer, Elaine V Tholen, Tamara D Kaufax, Karen Corbett Sanders, Karen A Keys-Gamarra, Stella Pekarsky - Vice Chair, Abrar Omeish, Laura Jane H Cohen, Karl V Frisch
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http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=BVJEC639BBEC

Brabrand doesn't reference national norms any more in the briefing or anywhere else.[/quote]

This is definitely the process used for the 2020-21 school year but sounds as though it was changed for 2021-22.  I no longer see any reference to the use of national norms.
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I suspect that they're calling them all local norms, but in reality if they do the same calculation for a school -- whether it's top 5% at that school or top 2% at that school or however else it is calculated -- and if the number is higher than the national norm, then they're instructed to use the national norm, but call it "local norm" as word play because it's the norm for that school. Also his update is more about the fact they're doing this process for the 34 schools that don't yet have a level IV program, rather than last year's plan to just use the national norm for the schools. [/quote]

This is a good hypothesis but it doesn't explain why the person with the 137 NNAT didn't receive an in-pool letter.  Seems unlikely that they wouldn't have sent out all pool letters simultaneously.
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