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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about an analysis of middle school 5s like Hardy 6th has 2x ELA 5s as Basis?  Sure some kids read lots at home for fun….[/quote]

This is interesting. Our kid just finished a year at BASIS and got his first CAPE scores -- both 4s. But previously at his (pretty mediocre) DCPS school he got 5s and 98th percentile scores. Scores and percentiles on CAPE both dropped after a year at BASIS!

He does extremely well on all the BASIS exams and other standardized tests. So I wonder if BASIS is truly not teaching to CAPE in any way. [/quote]

BASIS ignores CAPE. Other than taking time away from class to administer it, totally irrelevant.[/quote]

BASIS’ whole model is that extensive test and drill is actually teaching kids, not just teaching them to pass BASIS-specific tests. If a kid was getting 5s previously and now isn’t, I would definitely be worried (though I would wait a year to worry too much). The “strategy” of CAPE doesn’t change from year to year, so even if I accept that BASIS doesn’t teach to the test, they shouldn’t need to for kids who have already learned that part. It may be that BASIS’ style of teaching isn’t actually a good match for your kid even if they are performing well of BASIS style exams (very memorization based especially in 6th with little explanation/ extrapolation needed).[/quote]

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