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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I received my son's scores today (FCPS - Oakton pyramid).  What Composite(VQN) score is FCPS using this year as the cutoff?  The form does not show how he compared locally under the "Local Scores" section.[/quote]

You're going to have to ask AAP central office (aap@fcps.edu), because they prepared the pool and apparently shared their methodology with no one. Or you can put in a VFOIA request for it (https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/policies-regulations-and-notices/virginia-freedom-information-act-vfoia/freedom).

Is it ridiculous that the pool is a black box to everyone but Gatehouse? I think so.[/quote]

It's definitely frustrating as a parent but not really surprising when you think about it.  Think about what would happen if they published the norms.  There would be an immediate hierarchy at the center schools.  Kids would be saying things like, "Larla isn't as smart as me because she came from ([i]insert name of Title I school here[/i]) and my mom told me their pool cut-off was only 120. At ([i]insert name of high-SES school[/i]) you have to be [i][u]really[/u][/i] smart to get into AAP."  [/quote]

Right, but that's also because there's a grain of truth to it.  Using building norms as the standard seems to rest on the false presumption that the 85th (or 90th or Xth) percentile students at school A are always going to be just as ready and in need of AAP services as the equivalent percentile students at school B.[/quote]

But you can't really assume that scores are a good proxy for intelligence when you're talking about ESL students, for example.  Or FARMS.  They may not be as ready but lots of these kids are just as smart or smarter than their counterparts in the Langley pyramid.  They just haven't had the opportunity to meet their full potential.  [/quote]

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