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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a VALLSS tutor - also find it annoying we don’t receive the ranges for each band as a parent. The ranges vary depending upon grade. So 600 may be low risk in K, but high risk in 3rd grade. We as educators do get to see this information, yet I have no clue why parents aren’t afforded the same consideration. If you contact your teacher, she should be able to get you the information easily. [/quote] Great that you saw that, but as a teacher, we see the raw score for the sub test, and an overall band score. We have no idea what cut off scores for each subtest are or how the overall risk is calculated. They are keeping that a secret. They also aren’t able to put percentages on the test for how each child scored overall because they don’t have enough data to make percentages. https://static.literacy.virginia.edu/resources/VALLSS_Family_Brochure_English.pdf If you want even more information about why they won’t tell us how the bands of risks are calculated or why they won’t give cut off scores for each band, contact them! They have more time and information than your child’s teacher. literacy@virginia.edu Phone 888-882-7257 Agree with this, as a teacher too. First grade teacher here, and when I pressed for more information on how the scaled score is calculated/how each subtest is weighted I was met with a "VDOE is not sharing that info." Our old assessment was not SOR aligned but it at least had benchmarks! [/quote][/quote] np. Agree that this info would be helpful. From what I've seen, the decoding categories and ORF are heavily weighted in the risk calculation. That makes sense as ORF is directly measuring decoding as opposed to measuring things that help with decoding like the encoding/segmenting/blending categories, or are correlated with comprehension--as is the auditory testing portion--but not actually a direct measurement of reading comprehension. Would be nice to have an actual breakdown for every subtest, however.[/quote]
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