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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So no one knows when these results come out?  Can someone explain to me what the point of them is if they don’t come out instantaneously? How are the gaps going to be addressed? Or is the hope we forget about Covid?[/quote]

The schools have the numbers.  We could give them to the parents but there's nothing from VDOE yet about what the numbers mean.  Knowing your child scored 1256 on the VGA isn't very meaningful without a way to interpret the score.  We're still waiting on the department of ed.
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Prince William County and Loudoun County have posted some information:

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY

Main Site: https://www.pwcs.edu/departments/accountability__grants__records__testing_/testing_staff/v_a_growth_assessment

Link to "Understanding Virginia Growth Assessment (VGA) Test Performance" (it takes you to a sharpschool site)

https://www.pwcs.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_340140/File/Accountability/Testing/Understanding%20Performance%20on%20the%20Virginia%20Growth%20Assessment.pdf

LOUDOUN COUNTY

https://www.lcps.org/Page/237244
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Thanks for sharing these sources. This went totally under the radar.
Contact your state representatives who voted for this [url=https://legiscan.com/VA/rollcall/HB2027/id/1001222]HB 2027[/url].

The main problem here is that school districts across Virginia are replacing their previous growth assessments (e.g., NWEA MAP), which were truly open ended, with 3x SOL per year.

What a waste of time and resources, and how unfair to those kids who relied on MAP and similar tests to show their abilities.
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Yes, I have found some of this information myself (first found it posted on a Roanoke public schools page).  But the fact that that chart can't be found anywhere on VDOE's website (that I can find) and that FCPS is still saying they haven't gotten any information from VDOE yet has me questioning the validity of the graph. I believe it's accurate.  But I don't like to run with something until I know its source.  If anyone can find that graph and information related to interpreting VGA scores on the VDOE website, I'd love to see it.  [/quote]

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