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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP posted this as an indictment of the new admissions process.  But objectively, going from 80-100% Advanced Pass rates to 20-50% (the formatting is so strange, this might be a bit off) shows something else.

Have the SOLs changed between 2018 and 2022?  I'm aware of rescoring of the reading SOL somewhat recently and the math SOL rescoring before that but I'm not sure exactly when that happened.

This also shows the impact of the pandemic, learning loss even, or especially, at the highest level of student, whether the stress of isolation, the loss of school and academic progress, or injury from covid (since nearly 100% of Americans have had covid at least once, if not several times).  [/quote]
Math SOLs changed in 2018-19. English SOLs changed in 2020-21. For both math and English, cut scores were reduced so scores were boosted when those SOLs took effect.  Science changed in 2022-23.[/quote]

PP here.  I'm not sure how the rescoring would affect Pass Advanced rates but it sounds like that's not a part of the explanation.  On DCUM, we are sure that our high quality students had no learning loss and/or are fully recovered from learning loss and that covid had/has no effect on anything.  So maybe the explanation is purely the result of the new admissions process.  I lived in Texas around the time of the enactment of the 10% rule and saw the effect on the university system and students there.  It was mixed, with positives and negatives.  [/quote]

We don't think we are immune from learning loss but it's 2025 and we are talking about kids at the far right end side of the curve (or we should be).

COVID affected learning levels for younger kids less than older kids, i.e. the effect is more pronounced at the high school level than at the 5th grade level (the current freshmen at TJ).
COVID affected learning for highly engaged (smarter?) kids less than low engagement kids.  So you would expect to see less learning loss at the right end of the curve.
COVID affects higher income kids less than lower income kids as parents have more resources to bridge the gap.

And there are positive and negative aspects of the new admissions policy at TJ as well.

On the positive side, there is more diversity (economic, geographic and racial) and less stress from academic competition
On the negative side, there is a less competitive academic environment and a lot of mismatched students[/quote]

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