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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is crazy that kids spend all that time on a test and the results are provided so many months away from the test that it is not useful in targeting learning. [/quote]

I agree that the delay in getting results is bad but not because it should be used in targeted learning. All students in DCPS have assessments done at the start, middle, and end of each year in order to identify strengths and weaknesses and target curriculum to individual student needs. That's not what PARCC is for.

PARCC is intended to help evaluate schools. The goal is to aggregate scores and figure out which schools are doing well and which are not, be able to compare schools against each other, and also to evaluate how DCPS is doing year over year (and how schools are doing year over year).

However, I also believe PARCC scores are regularly embargoed until after school starts, or even after count day, in order to prevent parents from using recent PARCC scores in making decisions regarding the lottery. Which I find annoying because if you are going to use an assessment like PARCC, and have a system where parents can lottery into schools other than their IB, you should also make it possible for parents to look at the most recent PARCC data in order to make informed decisions about their children's education. If this means more parents pull their kids from schools with bad or deteriorating PARCC scores, well, isn't the system set up specifically for that outcome? Why hide the ball?[/quote]

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