Reply to Walls test today

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Walls test today"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what it's worth, SWW test has a possible top score of 55. Any kid scoring above a 40 got an interview.[/quote]

Exactly.

And it is so by design -- the school and DCPS want plenty of leeway to select both well-qualified students with more questionable ones (while leaving some better qualified out)[/quote]

How does a hard cutoff leave some "better qualified out?" The tests are also graded blind from what I was told by SWW staff in prior years. (No names, ward, sex, race info. to the graders).[/quote]

I don't think that's what PP meant. SWW could set the cutoff score higher (40 out of 55 = 72%, a low bar). But making the interview cutoff an 80 or 85% could result in a less diverse interview pool (ward, gender, race, feeder/charter school) which SWW seems to want to avoid. [/quote]

The cut off is not arbitrary, it is set by the top 250 scorers (or 255 if it is not a clean break).  If the above numbers are accurate, 55 is a perfect score and the lowest score by anyone in the top 250 scores was 40.  This is what I was told by the admissions person at the open house.[/quote]

The cutoff could just as easily be 200 as it is 250-255. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics