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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They probably didn’t mention the other scores because they are already so high so actually didn’t show improvement - they simply maintained status quo. For example, the pass rate for grade 4 math in 2022-2023 was already at 97%. Grade 6 math in 2022-2023 was already 95%. Whereas for Grade 5 math in 2022-2023, it was only 88%. So moving to 96% pass rate this year in Grade 5 math was huge. The newsletter simply highlighted the improved scores which is quite an accomplishment. But go on with your nonsense. [/quote]

If the pass rate was 88 percent in Grade 5 in 22-23 they should be looking at 6th grade math this year to see improvement. Not comparing two different groups of kids. -teacher[/quote]

That’s not how they look at the SOL data and you’d know it if you were actually a teacher. They do not look to see if there is an improvement in a specific cohort as the teachers change for the cohort every year. They look at the grade level data and they use that to determine what changes they need to make at grade level in their instruction.

I wonder what you’d be saying if the scores went down?

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Ha- you are right they don’t look at it this way, but as a teacher, I can assure you they should.  Look at the way they want to rearrange kids and redo boundaries so they can claim all schools are equally good.  It is because they want to cover up the kids who they aren’t reaching and still aren’t testing well.  Looking at the same grade level with different kids in it every year rather than looking for student growth in the same population between one year and the next is an apples to oranges comparison.  The composition of kids matters.  The board knows this and wants to remix boundaries, but they then hold teachers a standard they themselves can’t meet: Making sure kids can pass the SOL regardless of their linguistic, ethnic and SES status.

Great system- right? (Pffft.)[/quote]

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