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[quote=Anonymous]I teach compacted 5th grade math and my cohort went through the first E-math series, I believe.

In terms of my own experience, our school went from having a group of 10-20 kids qualify to having 40-50 kids on track to take the 6th grade SOL.

In terms of data, the new cohort is tracking at a higher level in terms of i-ready performance than the prior cohorts in my advanced math section. What is interesting in the data is that the prior cohort had more "high" outliers -- 3-5 kids scoring off the chart and the remaining scoring well below not only those top kids, but also the fall and winter i-ready scores of 90 percent of the kids in my current cohort. If anything, these kids would have been in the bottom of this cohort. It was very bimodal.

For the new cohort, I did notice that they did not score as high as the top top kids.

So, basically, it looks like this. Two cohorts of kids -- Cohort 1 (the advanced math section of 15-20 kids) and Cohort 2 (E3 kids 1-60). Here is a rough estimate of what the rankings kind of look like (generalizing here) if I were to put all of the kids in a ranking in terms of their i-ready performance (amongst each other -- not the national norms -- since I am talking about comparing kid versus kid performance).

Cohort 1 -- Kids 1-15 (bottom ten percentile of scores of the combined cohort of Cohort 1-2)
Cohort 2 -- Kids 1-55 (tenth percentile to 80th percentile)
Cohort 1 -- Kids 15-20 and Cohort 2 Kids 55-60  (80th to 100th percentile).

What this tells me is the county's old system for identifying students who will do well in advanced math under identifies these kids. Now, looking at the data the cohorts are both tracking to have similar SOL performance.

Now, I am generalizing heavily and trying to anonymize this as much as possible, but I hope this gives you a feel for what I am seeing. It seems consistent across the schools based on the feedback we received in training, FWIW.

The county is being terrible in explaining this because they, quite frankly, don't fully know how the pilot is going. It's a work in progress. [/quote]

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