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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does it mean when scores go down? That the student didn’t learn anything in the year? [/quote]

It's hard to put any deep meaning in individual scores from a single time for these tests.  It could be that there was little learned.  It could be that the variation in the test -- particular questions randomly selected, your child's physical/mental/emotional health on test day, etc , meant that the earlier score and the later score are not properly comparable.  It may be that you are looking at a decline in peecentile but an increase in raw score, which means that your kid just didn't score as well in the more recent test than peers (in comparison to the earlier test).

It's not nothing, but it just isn't a good measure to rely on unless it is consistent over a number of tests/years, supported by several other performance measures or evaluated over a large enough group of test-takers/conditions to be more statistically meaningful (i.e., not just your kid).[/quote]

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