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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, the 25-kid threshold does not promote transparency in the reporting.

It's also important to note how many grades/kids comprise the testing population, especially for the charters. At MV, it's only 3rd grade. At YY, it's 3rd-5th. At ITS, it's 3rd-6th. Not sure if the Two Rivers stats include all of the middle school kids, but I bet they do. Etc.

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And that the scores, generally, go down as the kids age, for whatever reason.  So it's only really fair to compare similar grades. Halfway down:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-quarter-of-dc-students-on-track-for-college-new-parcc-test-results-show/2015/11/30/ef975362-971c-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html

"The strongest scores were in the earliest grades: 30 percent of third-graders scored a 4 or better, compared to 21 percent of sixth-graders. Middle school scores were the lowest"[/quote]

Yes, this. I think it's terrible that OSSE decided to aggregate the reporting of all of these grades together, when some schools only offer 3-5, others offer 3-8, and other offer 5-8 or 6-8 or some combination thereof.[/quote]

Wait, do all the grades take the SAME test?! Or is it a different test per grade...[/quote]

Different test per grade. Any middle schoolers who are taking what DC considers advanced math (Algebra or Geometry) will take that exam. The spreadsheets that were released by OSSE are dense but you can distinguish between grades. [/quote]

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