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[quote=Anonymous]You all don't give teachers very much credit.  We don't make teaching decisions on one, single data point.  I'm a middle school teacher but I can tell you that if we were giving kids a screener test like this and a kid scored poorly but their classroom performance didn't match that low score, that'd be a pretty big red flag that it was a testing issue and not an ability issue and we'd look at a variety of other data points to determine the child's actual level (such as the DRA).

Personally, I'm happy about these tests because the 1-4 report card is useless to me in terms of telling me what my child knows or doesn't, particulary at the lower levels where there's no assessments.  It all seems to be based on subjective teacher observations.  I mean, I get why that's the case but I like concrete data and the elementary report card just doesn't provide that.  Sure, I got a DRA score but we got zero information on where the child's math strengths/needs are.  I'm glad we'll finally have some decent diagnostic data to show our child's growth in reading and math.[/quote]

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