I agree with everyone.I was a bit puzzled.My child gets straight A's in math,science,and social studies,but when I got the priliminary reports for sol I was quite surprise.He passed all subjects in the 3rd grade sol,but the only one he got pass/advance on was social studies.During the practise test for math and science he has gotten one wrong.So what happened in the sol test? I'm hoping when the results are sent in August he will score higher.

thanks

Anonymous wrote:does anyone know how many questions there are? and how many you need to pass or pass advance? is this the kind of test that is scaled according to age?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/cut_scores.pdf

For third grade, there were 50 questions. I'm not sure where the cut off was for pass/pass advanced.

does anyone know how many questions there are? and how many you need to pass or pass advance? is this the kind of test that is scaled according to age?

Scores are definitely down. We have 5 third grade classes and typically we have less than 5 fail the math. This year, from my count looking at the preliminary scores, we had 30+.

600

What is the highest score?

We got preliminary scores on 2 tests with the report card. They were both in the 490's which was surprising to me. All tests before this year have always been in the 580's and up.

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Anonymous wrote:Did the school mail the scores? My third graders took all of their tests online and I haven't heard that they've gone to the homes yet.

We received preliminary scores with the report card yesterday. Official scores are being mailed in August.

Ok. (14:39 here). My school didn't send home any preliminary scores.

Anonymous wrote:Did the school mail the scores? My third graders took all of their tests online and I haven't heard that they've gone to the homes yet.

We received preliminary scores with the report card yesterday. Official scores are being mailed in August.

Did the school mail the scores? My third graders took all of their tests online and I haven't heard that they've gone to the homes yet.

My DS had lower math scores on his 4th grade math SOL from last year.

Anonymous wrote:Since the MATH SOL standard changed this year to be tough, did any one think their kid got reduced math score than what you would expect? Did the technology interface changes had any impact on this?

[list]We haven't received math scores yet they were taken on paper. Our school had Social Studies and Science online. My child's scores were lower than I expected. I do think the overall scores will be lower with the online testing.

My 5th graders online writing SOL was lower than he gets with written papers. I believe it was because he has not had a lot of practice composing a paper on the computer.

Since the MATH SOL standard changed this year to be tough, did any one think their kid got reduced math score than what you would expect? Did the technology interface changes had any impact on this?