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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I have heard some parents prep their kids for the test. Could it be that there is more of that at cold spring than elsewhere?[/quote]

In fact, many of the students had perfect scores (60 out of 60 correct) on the Q section since a score of 56 correct out of 60 was well below the median for this group.  What is the difference between a 56 and a 60? I'm sure the confidence intervals for those scores overlap and there is no difference. The bar is set so low and the distribution of scores is so skewed to the right (high end) resulting in reduction of that "achievement" gap.  This allows the system to use the other more subjective criteria -- parent recommendation, teacher and school recommendation and grades with the new system where a judiciously placed ES by a third grade teacher (HGC gatekeeper) can achieve the ulterior purposes of the school.  If a 56 out of 60 is well below the median are these kids all gifted or is MCPS afraid of administering a hard and difficult exam so that the scores will not spread out.  Are they afraid of what they may find out about who is really gifted?  Perhaps the low bar test is by premeditated design?[/quote]

Just to speak to your point about the value of ES -- at our school for first semester, during parent/teacher conference, I asked my child's teacher why DC didn't get any ES marks.  Teacher said that ES could only be given if student earned 75% ES marks on individual assignments, implying that my child just didn't do well enough on assignments.  I passed teacher a book of all graded returned assignments for the semester and asked teacher to show me which ones DC could have earned an ES on but didn't and to explain what DC didn't do that should've been done.  Many perfect papers had "P" marked on the top.  Teacher admitted that none of the assignments given had ES even as a possible mark, and therefore that DC was not even given the opportunity to earn an ES.

So, in this portion of the HGC application process, my child had no chance of being competitive through no fault of DC's own.

I doubt this is an isolated incident -- the new grading system is highly subjective both within a school and across schools.  [/quote]

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