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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Why are the grade 3 ELA scores at some of the traditionally high performing schools so much lower compared to the other grades?"

Yep. The Janney 3rd graders tanked ELA but not math, the 5th graders tanked math but not ELA, but the 4th graders rocked both. Very, very strange. One would think that in a school with a well thought-out curriculum and mostly the same staff year to year, the scores from grade to grade would be fairly consistent. My guess is that either there were excessive technology errors on some of the test days or the test design is just off. For Wilson, I'd guess parents may have told their kids to not worry about tanking the test, but I don't have the sense that happened at Janney since the issue seems to be with one test or the other but not both.[/quote]

Same thing seems to have happened at all other elementary schools. ELA grade 3 may have been more (relatively) difficult than ELA later grades.[/quote]

I pulled many of the other high performing schools and can find evidence of the grade 3 ELA issue only at Janney, Lafayette, and Eaton. [/quote]

Actually Stoddert had this issue too.  ELA 3rd grade 70% vs. ELA 4th grade 86%. A 16 point difference is kind of large whereas the Math scores were much closer with only a 5 point difference.  [/quote]

I've noticed the same elsewhere but choose not to list the schools. In some case the 4th grade proficiency does not reflect last year's or this year's 3rd grade proficiency even with little student turnover.  I suspect the test were poorly structured (given) or other irregularities like software issues.[/quote]

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