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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is that there are baseline issues if your child failed. Knowing that ASAP is pretty important. I don't think you need to know how well they did if they passed, but parents of kids who failed should be able to know or be told by teachers quickly. I don't see the argument why beyond kids who are in the retake window (and they are informed quickly). [/quote]

But why do you need to be told "quickly?"  All scores will be posted in SIS the week of 6/12.  That's enough time for you to email the school if you see your kid failed and ask for the SDBQ which will tell you the standard for each question your child got wrong.  Then you can use that information to remediate your child over the summer should you deem that necessary.

Knowing that score a week or two prior to that 6/12 window will not make any difference in your plan of action. [/quote]

Actually, I've gotten these reports. And to be honest, I can't tell where my child is. When I met with the teacher, they went through a ton of tut tutting these tests. The i-ready is common core normed so it doesn't follow what we teach. The VGA is only a handful of questions so it isn't accurate.

Really, when it comes to it, the SOL really is the annual benchmark of where the child is. Do they meet the state baseline? This is the only meaningful test.

Our teachers don't even DRA anymore. My son's 3rd grade teacher admitted she had no clue what his reading level was, just that he performed with "x percentile" among third graders given an identical passage to read.

It's a mess. But the SOL is, in fact, critically important. It's a stable baseline test. [/quote]

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