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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid scored below the intervention cut-off, have you heard what the intervention of plan is?[/quote]

What is the intervention score? is it the overall score or the individual scores? [/quote]

DP - on DC's score sheet, it states 39 percentile is the intervention score. DC scored in the 20s percentile and has an IEP. DC also failed Spring SOLs. I'm concerned because according to the teacher and IEP progress reports, DC is doing well and making sufficient progress. [/quote]

You know what is awesome? Statistics. So if 39% of kids need intervention- how are they giving 40% (almost half the class) interventions in one on one/small group setting. What is happening with the other 60% of kids.  I dont’ get it.  Why would a test say that almost half of all children need an intervention?  If it is based upon percentages, then it doesn’t even really matter WHAT the actual score is, there will always be 40% of kids that need intervention. That seems weird.[/quote]

Percentile, not percentage. 
It’s unlikely 40% of a class requires remediation.[/quote]

And the percentiles are nationally normed. I [b]would imagine that there is a smaller percentage of kids below that 39th percentile in FCPS because of the high level of education across the county and, no matter what people think, a strong Public School system. I would also imagine that kids at the very low end are in SPED programs[/b] that are receiving some help and have different academic needs based on the degree of their issues. The Gen Ed class is far less likely to have 39% of the kids needing intervention.[/quote]
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No dude- nationally normed includes high income areas where the schools are all UMC too. They are really saying 40% of kids need intervention. The PPs kid was sped and so I guess needs both intervention and sped. And gen Ed classes ha e sped kids and yes  if they are doing interventions for kids who score at 40% that is a LOT of kids so most kids will be receiving less time. [/quote]

It also includes counties that are low SES, impoverished, and with traditionally poor results. It is not normed to kids in FCPS, it is comparing across the entire country. So 40th percentile nationally will be different then the percentile in FCPS, but we only have the national norm.

Admittedly, I am not the best with stats but I would expect a higher percentage of the kids in FCPS to score in the upper percentiles on a nationally normed test due to the education profile of the adults in the area. [/quote]

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