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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter's (9th grade--Walls) scores came in the mail this week.  They are her scores from 8th grade--and there was an interesting graph showing the breakdown of the scores from her 8th grade class...as in the percentage of kids who received a 5, 4, 3, etc.  There was an alarmingly low percentage of 5s, but I too have heard that that was expected.

Also people--this is ONE test.  No one should be looking at this ONE score as a prediction of future success in anything.

also, some very smart children are just not great test-takers...and some kids in the average range can do very well on tests.

Just my two cents...[/quote]

I agree with you that some very bright kids do not do well on tests for a variety of reasons, I am not sure the converse you articulated is true, that average kids get very high scores.  What is your thinking on this, that they guess well?  It may be that they are very bright at what is being tested but are not brilliant in other areas but I think you take away too much from the kids that do very well that it is not indicative of anything.  Saying someone may just test well is a put down to those students.  They knew the correct answers to the questions, you cannot guess your way to a 5.

I don't think test scores are the be all and end all and it is more important to me that my child be challenged to work hard than to get an A.  But I am proud of my child's scores and I do think they represent how my child is performing more generally as it all tracks.

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I agree. Now, maybe what PP meant is that some bright kids who get a 5 might not have the best grades, becasue grades encompass behaviors and measure more than knowledge of the subject matter. Think of your absent minded professor kiddo who forgets to put his name on the paper and gets no credit for it, or has barely legible handwriting and gets marked down for it, or who routinely forgets to hand in work, etc. Bright kids don't always get A grades. Not that I know a kid like that  :oops:  :evil:  :wink: [/quote]

That's the problem right there. Grades should be based on content not behavior or whether I brought a pencil to class or put my name on my paper. Coming from another country I find this very peculiar about American schools, especially high school. When I look at my child's grade it should tell me how my child is doing in class, not that they are an A student but actually they have not grasped the content knowledge. If you must, give two grades on the report card for all this mish mash and the other for content, does my child know what they are supposed to know per the standards. There wouldn't be such drama about common core or PARC if grades in school really reflected content knowledge. [/quote]

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