Anonymous
Post 06/07/2024 16:03     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I took the GRE, I got the results as soon as I finished the test. But, sure, it takes a half year to figure out and report children's PARCC scores.


Well, the GREs are for you and so you can provide them to grad schools. As I understand it, PARCC is primarily for the district's use in understanding teacher effectiveness and placement of students and is only provided to parents because it's hard to justify why they shouldn't.

I don't know if it was PARCC or what, but when our children were in ES we would get various test scores allegedly measuring different things and would get a sort of scripted line about how it related to norms, but for results beyond Lexile score and math grade level, when we asked how the number was arrived, what it represented, etc. we were almost always told "it's a black box, we can't really say". So, we could be told if our child was above or below the mean, but not why. All of it seemed very useless, and some teachers agreed. None of them ever encouraged us to take any of the numbers very seriously, as with even the Lexile and math grade level, they invariably said they considered our children at a higher level, even when they were above grade level.


But with other tests used for similar purposes, parents get their tests much faster. Fairfax county parents are already getting their kids "SOL" (their PARCC equivalent) scores now. This is an unacceptable excuse. Of course parents want to know! And also may need it if their kid is switching to a new school district next year - i.e. for appropriate services, leveled within grade placement, honors placement, etc.


We applied to private this year, and despite not having seen any PARCC scores ourselves understand that the private school was able to get them when we requested transcripts and tests be sent.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2024 12:40     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When I took the GRE, I got the results as soon as I finished the test. But, sure, it takes a half year to figure out and report children's PARCC scores.


Well, the GREs are for you and so you can provide them to grad schools. As I understand it, PARCC is primarily for the district's use in understanding teacher effectiveness and placement of students and is only provided to parents because it's hard to justify why they shouldn't.

I don't know if it was PARCC or what, but when our children were in ES we would get various test scores allegedly measuring different things and would get a sort of scripted line about how it related to norms, but for results beyond Lexile score and math grade level, when we asked how the number was arrived, what it represented, etc. we were almost always told "it's a black box, we can't really say". So, we could be told if our child was above or below the mean, but not why. All of it seemed very useless, and some teachers agreed. None of them ever encouraged us to take any of the numbers very seriously, as with even the Lexile and math grade level, they invariably said they considered our children at a higher level, even when they were above grade level.


But with other tests used for similar purposes, parents get their tests much faster. Fairfax county parents are already getting their kids "SOL" (their PARCC equivalent) scores now. This is an unacceptable excuse. Of course parents want to know! And also may need it if their kid is switching to a new school district next year - i.e. for appropriate services, leveled within grade placement, honors placement, etc.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2024 11:55     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:When I took the GRE, I got the results as soon as I finished the test. But, sure, it takes a half year to figure out and report children's PARCC scores.


Well, the GREs are for you and so you can provide them to grad schools. As I understand it, PARCC is primarily for the district's use in understanding teacher effectiveness and placement of students and is only provided to parents because it's hard to justify why they shouldn't.

I don't know if it was PARCC or what, but when our children were in ES we would get various test scores allegedly measuring different things and would get a sort of scripted line about how it related to norms, but for results beyond Lexile score and math grade level, when we asked how the number was arrived, what it represented, etc. we were almost always told "it's a black box, we can't really say". So, we could be told if our child was above or below the mean, but not why. All of it seemed very useless, and some teachers agreed. None of them ever encouraged us to take any of the numbers very seriously, as with even the Lexile and math grade level, they invariably said they considered our children at a higher level, even when they were above grade level.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2024 11:43     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why does it take so long to get them?


Good question. It may be because the PARCC test includes written response tasks that have to be evaluated and scored individually.


But even then, when the aggregate PARCC results become available by school in late Aug/early Sept, the individual student reports aren't received by parents till at least a month or two later. Results are never posted in Aspen, at least for my own kid they aren't. There's no website where you can log in and view your kid's result.

It is the year 2024. This is unacceptable and embarrassing.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2024 11:26     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:Early September if the date is similar to last year. Schools received embargoed data in mid-to-late August but aren't able to share with families until the embargo lifts in September.


?!?!
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 20:26     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
When I took the GRE, I got the results as soon as I finished the test. But, sure, it takes a half year to figure out and report children's PARCC scores.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 20:12     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
As somebody who has worked on this data, the school will not receive the data until late September.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 19:37     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anonymous wrote:Why does it take so long to get them?


Good question. It may be because the PARCC test includes written response tasks that have to be evaluated and scored individually.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 18:26     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Why does it take so long to get them?
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 18:12     Subject: Re:When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
seems like it would be better if you got the results of a test of whether your kid's at grade level while kid was still in said grade.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 16:27     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Some schools send out the scores later than others. Don't count on early September. Just accept that the test will be a meaningless distant memory by time you get the scores.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 16:15     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
I have never seen CAPE/PARCC data for my kid. Years of test taking and all sorts of bizarre contradictory testing numbers, but never any PARCC.

The whole thing is stupid.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 10:57     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Early September if the date is similar to last year. Schools received embargoed data in mid-to-late August but aren't able to share with families until the embargo lifts in September.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 10:44     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
September or October. If you have a specific reason you need them asap, ask the school?
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2024 10:41     Subject: When do CAPE/PARCC results come out?
Anyone know when we get to see how our kids did?