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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The mainstream media are filled with warnings about “learning loss” and how we must measure it and why students should go to summer school to make up for what they have “lost.” If we can’t quantify it, they say, how can we know which students are behind? This is silly. There was no “pre-test,” so there can’t be a “post-test.” A test that students take this spring can’t possibly demonstrate “learning loss,” since they can’t be compared to anything else. If you want to know where students are in their learning, ask their teacher."

-Diane Ravitch

I don't even know what this mean.  She really has drunk the Kool-Aid.

Take DC, for example.  DC used the PARCC pre-pandemic and now is using the PARCC post-pandemic.  So, yes, they can use that to help quantify learning loss.

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My old DCPS school school that has been rapidly gentrifying used to sell their “growth” by showing the improvement YoY of a certain grade level, for example the 2017 5th grade scores v the 2015 5th grade scores. These aren’t a real comparison and considering student bodies change, and school demos differ, I’m not really sure what you are hoping to glean from this [/quote]

Your old DCPS school has changed demographically over the last few years, so we should throw out the PARCC test.  Very insightful.  No data is obviously a lot more useful than some data.
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Do you work for Pearson? If you read through this thread you can see that there are many examples of actionable data that schools collect throughout the year[/quote]

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