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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guy Brandenburg has done phenomenal work in the past analyzing dccas results.  His latest comments are quite interesting.  
 Brandenburg:  " supposedly, this year’s DC-CAS was modeled on the Common Core, since the DCPS curriculum this past year was Common Core, as opposed to the Massachusetts-based curriculum we used for the previous 8 years or so.
If that is the case, then it’s a brand-new test, and only by the utmost chance would the scores really be comparable.
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On August 1, 2013 at 8:58 pm gfbrandenburg said:

PPS: I have put in several phone calls to the DC OSSE data office; no response yet at all."

It is interesting that many schools experienced a significant bump in reading and mathematics although the System has done nothing different.  System-wide PD in both subject areas is still virtually non-existent.[/quote]

True. Also, we had PIAs this year and got rid of DC BAS, the PIAs were aligned with common core and as anyone who has been around a while knows the DC BAS was not aligned with anything. The other thing to consider is that all focus is now on the CAS to the detriment of everything else, so I'm sure in reality students did not work as hard in music, PE, and other electives as these were the classes the students were often pulled from. It is what it is, and depends what your goal is for your child's education. DC CAS scores may have gone up, but who knows what it really means. [/quote]

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