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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tend to think smart kids with average teaching will score 4s.  Smart kids with very good/effective teachers may score 5s.  A high concentration of 5s shows you something about the teaching quality.[/quote]

CAPE/PARCC is a weird test. My kid scored high on it only because his 3rd grade teacher spent a month teaching all the tricks -- like put a quote somewhere in your essay because the graders are looking for a quote, etc. I guess this has to do with teaching quality? But more like he had a good teacher who knew how to teach to the test.[/quote]

Then that is a big red flag.  I would look at other schools.

Our school does not teach to the test at all.  Parents get communication that there is going to be testing coming up.  School recommends kids get good nights rest and that’s it.  Our kids do well.

Teaching to the test only gets you so far.  It is not going to get you top scores especially higher up in the grades.  This is true in ELA and especially true in math.[/quote]

I would argue teaching 3rd graders how to Quote evidence from a source in a written essay is not teaching to the test but important writing instruction.  My 3rd grader would not naturally know how to do that without instruction.  I don’t see anything wrong with a teacher knowing that the 3rd grade writing for Cape expects quoted evidence and teaching kids how to do that.[/quote]

Agree with this. Some of the test-taking skills my kid was taught are actually writing skills. Yes, they are taught them for CAPE purposes, but I am glad someone taught my 3rd grader how to roughly structure a paragraph and an essay. It's not the only way, but it's a whole lot better than the no structure at all blob of info that she was writing previously. [/quote]

But the issue is that this is fragmented and your kid should have been taught whatever proficiency that is needed as part of the actual curriculum and progression, not just because there is a test coming up in 2 or 3 weeks.

It’s like trying to explain the definition of a word that has multiple meanings without having the context of the sentence with the word in it.

It is a poor way to learn something and higher likelihood that it won’t stick compared to something that is actually incorporated into the curriculum and used consistently. [/quote]

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