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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a fourth grader

Reading: 1657 (14/17)
Math: 1578 (18/24)

Based on the chart he is good to go until 8th grade. Not sure really what to take away from all of this. 
[/quote] You need to learn to read the chart.   You can’t read results from one test against the other test benchmarks.   [/quote]

I am reading the test and the benchmarks that they sent. The Grade 4 benchmark is 1401, my kid scored 1578. The same chart lists a benchmark of 1582 for 8th grade, my kid is just under that. The benchmarks they established, with the scoring the sent, sure seems to indicate that my kid is close to being "ready to learn" 8th grade materials. Their adaptive test could give questions that are above grade level. I have no idea if the questions that he got right were at the 4th grade level and the ones he got wrong are at a higher grade. Did he get questions right that were at a 5,6, and 7 grade level and then he got ones wrong at the 8th grade level? I have no clue. I just know that he got 6 questions wrong and his scaled score is a 1578, which on the PDFs and charts that you can find, is at an 8th grade level.

If the results that they sent shouldn't be read that way, then they need to send something that they 1) explain 2) can't be read that way.

Look, I don't buy that he is ready for 8th grade. Not for a second. But when you send me the results of an adaptive test and provide the percentiles and benchmark for each grade, don't be surprised that a parent looks at those and projects the score out when the kid is well over the benchmark and already at the supposed high score of the test. Send something out that parents can understand and not feel like they are clearly reading something wrong because the graph shows that their 4th grader is at the benchmark for an 8th grader.

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