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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1.  This teaching to the test is BS.  Either you know the material or not.  It is just testing what you should know.  It is not designed to trick you or anything.[/quote]

At my school, school leadership changed the scope and sequence of the curriculum to teach concepts earlier so students would learn them in time for the test. Some teachers felt this was succumbing to test pressure and teaching to the test as those teachers had a specific way they wanted to teach concepts across the year. Not saying that is what BASIS is doing because i don't know. But when parents and others hear "teaching to the test" they should ask what that means. Is it just drill and kill and test strategies or is it that ratios or irrational numbers or whatever are taught earlier in the year so they are covered before the test?
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