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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your school is any good, they should prepare the students for their first standardized test.  Many privates do a prep test in 2nd grade to prepare the kids for the first real ERB in 3rd.  If your school is not doing this, yiou should ask them to consider it.  The ERB is actually pretty important and, if taken correctly, very accurate in assessing where your child is in relation to his peers.  Unlike many other standardized tests, the individual results are ranked in accordance with the other local privates (good way to assess how your child's school is doing as well as your child), privates nationally, and certain suburban publics (usually the most highly regarded).  If your child is aplnning on applying to a different school for 4th or 6th or 7th or 9th, the ERBs will be part of his/her application and are weighted pretty heavily by many ADs.[/quote]

on word of caution: Many schools give a "practice ERB" the year before the apply out year. You might be told that these scores are only used to eval the curriculum and not passed onto schools. The scores may not be passed on, but teachers are human, and when the 2nd grade ERB scores come out, despite it being a " practice test" you can just feel the calculations being made all around your child from the teachers, from the outplacement director, from other people in the school who make it their business to know what kids did really well ( ie moved the curve from previous years) vs did so bad they made the curriculum look bad.

I would hate to see a 2nd grader ( or 1st grader, for that matter) taking a test prep course, but 1st grade and summer of same is no time to lay around in la la land either. If your kid does poorly on 2nd grade ERB, some people will start to make assumptions that may be hard to overcome later in 3rd grade. This affects younger sibs in the pipeline too.[/quote]

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