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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your floor should be looking at schools where majority are at grade level.  Then very good chance that is where the teaching will be.

Then you need to know if there is a good cohort of higher performing kids by looking at number of 5’s.

Only kids good at test taking do well on CAPE is a myth that families at poorly performing schools want you to believe and how they justify low scores.

CAPE is not hard. It tests you grade level content and what kids should know.  5 shows that the kids have a deeper understanding of concepts.

Then go talk to parents at these schools and see how the curriculum and teaching is set up[/quote]

I’m very familiar with the secondary math CAPE test. It IS hard. In fact, it is significantly harder than the SOLs in VA. There’s a reason DC was the only place left taking PARCC from the original group that started with it. They changed the name because it’s now only taken in DC, not because the test changed.

A lot of the questions on the math section are harder (intentionally imo) than they need to be if you simply created a question to assess proficiency of a particular standard. [/quote]

FWIW, I hear that the SOL in VA have gotten easier.  They have lowers the standards and it is not good. [/quote]

+1. I teach in VA and the test is a joke. There no writing assessment until 5th and the writing prompts are terrible. CAPE is significantly harder, especially the writing prompts. Most of my students (high population of ELs) would be 1s or 2s. [/quote]

This is good to know.  I have been thinking of CAPE 5s as interchangeable with SOL Pass Advance, which from my own FCPS experience was never a challenge, and so have been looking askance at the rate of 5s at our school.[/quote]

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