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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my god. This thread is incredibly stupid. OP, your child just isn't as smart as you think she is, dummy.[/quote]

My child has a 148 verbal IQ, thank you (GMU WISC). No need to be jealous! There's something seriously wrong somewhere if a child at that IQ level is NOT scoring pass advanced, and I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Like others on this thread, my kid has high iready (97%) and is reading books aimed at middle schoolers for pleasure, so I'm leaning towards it not being some one off issue with my kid.[/quote]

Even smart kids can have weaknesses. [/quote]

That was perhaps an argument in past years,  but this year literally all kids in each grade had the same curriculum. If the smart kids aren't doing well, I can only imagine how everyone else fared.[/quote]

No, I don't think you understand what PP was saying. That your child has weaknesses compared to other children. I know that's really, really hard for you to imagine, but trust me it is true.[/quote]

There's no further evidence to support my child having actual weaknesses. My child still scored very well, it's not like they barely passed. And consistently excels at every other measure of reading profiency. My concern is the rate of pass proficient vs pass advanced. Why? My particular school used to have a significant proportion of kids passing advanced in the years before covid, with another significant proportion passing proficient and only a handful failing. In more recent years, the trend has been a huge chunk pass proficient, with slightly more failing than before, and a lot less passing advanced than before. I think everyone is watching to see how the scores trend with this new curriculum.

This thread has been open for several hours and nobody has really posted how awesome their child did on *this* exam. If you parse the teacher's responses, one 6th grade teacher had good results, the other only mentions less kids failing. I get it's a very small sample but usually people on here love to post when Larlo does well (see yearly Cogat thread).

Nobody has mentioned VA expanded the language arts standards in 2024. How well does Benchmark address the expanded standards? I dont know. Maybe it covers them really well, maybe not. I went to the Benchmark website and the page I found only mentions how it aligns with 2022 standards. Was it updated since? Is it possible it only covers enough of the original standards such that we have more kids passing, but not really enough of the expanded standards to push kids into the pass advanced column? It's possible it's something unique to the third grade curriculum, if (big if) the responses here are any indication of a larger trend. [/quote]

A lot of kids haven't taken the SOL yet, PP, and most of the people who have taken it have not received the scores, and yet more don't look at this forum. My third grader is taking it this week. I'll be sure to let you know how she scores. [/quote]

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