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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS and LCPS use SOL and Iowa data for accelerated math consideration and families know the threshold needed ahead of time. Transparency is good. [/quote]

IOWA scores are worthless. They aren’t accurate at all. Why does FCPS use them? [/quote]
FCPS and LCPS have used Iowa for a while so they must find it useful. What don't you like about it?[/quote]

I think LCPS has only used IAAT for one year.[/quote]
Scanning the FCPS forum, there are references to LCPS IAAT in at least 2013, 2014, & 2016.  (The "VA PS other than FCPS" forum is relatively new, so search FCPS.)

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/151626.page;jsessionid=BC209E1937873F0A45D5E529CE193BB3.dcum2#3314984
2013  "Yes, in Loudoun the IAAT is taken in 5th, not 6th as in FCPS. So the bar is a little lower. It is for placement in an accelerated 6/7 math, with Algebra I in 7th grade. Only a raw score is given."

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/151626.page;jsessionid=D837B637A4ED2A585A44E58D3EE4DB05.dcum2#4875846
2014 "I have a 5th grader in LCPS. We just got the IAAT raw score. Does anyone know where I can find how to convert to percentile?"

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/585877.page;jsessionid=3E153263910C3A2DCDC4AB020CD62AA8.dcum2#9616622
2016  "Hi My son is in 5th grade in Loudoun school dist. I heard that there is an IOWA test sometime in DEC/Jan."

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Interesting.  At some point they dropped it and used a mock SOL instead.  There was not one in 2020-2021, 2019-2020, and in 2021-2022 and now it is just for students who do poorly on the primary SOL test and appeal.  This might be why a friend said they used to require a 95 and they later dropped it to 82.[/quote]
Were there issues with test administration during covid?  Other DCUM posters have a different take on IAAT, saying mock SOL is preliminary screener and if score is high enough, kids qualify to take IAAT as second test.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1060025.page;jsessionid=4196DAC9C17806F2D9BB6A4F1A2B10C7.dcum2#22729586
2022    Anyone who gets 90% on that prealgebra test(mock SOL 7) is given the option of taking a test to get into Algebra, IAAT

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/151626.page;jsessionid=D88FAC9D1142D99359B6485B06168D0D.dcum1#23095202
2022    Students do not take IAAT in 5th grade. They take SOL 7, and 82% will make students eligible for prealgebra. This can be appealed.
Students who get at least 90% or request to GTE can take IAAT for placement in algebra 1 in 6th grade.[/quote]

The 2019-2020 testing was in February before COVID.
I'm pretty sure both of the posts you linked were written by me.
Mock SOL first, then IAAT for some but not all was what happened last year.[/quote]

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