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[quote=Anonymous]To address the issue of variation between 3, 4, 5th scores, they are different groups of kids.  If your school has 100 kids in each grade, then a 10% change is 10 kids.  If your school has less than 100 kids per grade (and many in the county do) it takes even fewer kids to swing the % fairly substantially.

You can, however, look at (mostly) the same kids over time.  I pulled our school's 3rd grade ELA for 2017 and 4th grade ELA for 2018.  The number scoring 5 on 3rd grade ELA was 15 in 2017.  The number scoring 5 on 4th grade ELA in 2018 was 37.  Those are more or less the same kids.  On the other hand, math "5's" went from 24 to 16. Math "4's" went from 57 to 66.

In the end, there's always going to be arguments about what's actually  being measured by a standardized test. There was a mom who posted about moving from out of state and having a kid get a 1 on his first PARCC because he'd never taken a standardized test on a computer.  He got some training in how to use the computer for the test, and passed the following year.  Some kids are going to be more comfortable and experienced with computers.  Does that improve their score?  Does that make them feel more confident and competent while they're taking the test, or let them finish faster so they are less likely to phone it in at the end?  In the end, there's only so much one test can tell you about a kid or a school.     [/quote]

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