Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

They include relative percentages, you performed better than X% of the students in your school and Y% of the students in DCPS, etc.

Op didn’t say anything about %. Just score. A 5 is great. Just let her be happy about. Sheesh.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

They include relative percentages, you performed better than X% of the students in your school and Y% of the students in DCPS, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I mean standardized testing blows, but the PARCC is not on a curve. It tests whether you know common core standards. If lots and lots of kids don’t know the standards, your score doesn’t change because of that.

(I’m not defending the parcc or the common core, just pointing out the score isn’t relative.)

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

I cannot imagine a parent bragging that their kid is average in English relative to a group of children that includes non native speakers. Even a 5 in math doesn't say much.

I showed them to my DS 4th grader. Do kids bring up how they did in school or do they not care?

Anonymous wrote:Were they mailed to you or did you pick them up at the school?

They were sent by the schools in sealed envelopes in the student's folders.

Were they mailed to you or did you pick them up at the school?

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Anonymous wrote:Kiddo got a 5 in math and 4 in ELA for 3rd grade last year (DCPS) I’ll take it.

We got 5s all around for two kids. Not celebrating. I'm convinced that if PARCC 6s and 7s were to be had in Singapore (where we used to live), most of the test takers would get them.

That doesnt even make sense.

They used to live in Singapore and since education in Singapore is great, the kids there would've gotten 6s and 7s. Did I get it?
DC got 5s in 3rd and 4th grade, but math has been 4 in 5th and 6th. Going down...

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Anonymous wrote:Kiddo got a 5 in math and 4 in ELA for 3rd grade last year (DCPS) I’ll take it.

We got 5s all around for two kids. Not celebrating. I'm convinced that if PARCC 6s and 7s were to be had in Singapore (where we used to live), most of the test takers would get them.

That doesnt even make sense.

Anonymous wrote:^^ Agreed. Making a few people very wealthy is the true objective of that test.
Mission accomplished thanks to dcps. Geniuses

It's OSSE that chooses the state standardized test for DC, but we get the idea.

Anonymous wrote:Kiddo got a 5 in math and 4 in ELA for 3rd grade last year (DCPS) I’ll take it.

We got 5s all around for two kids. Not celebrating. I'm convinced that if PARCC 6s and 7s were to be had in Singapore (where we used to live), most of the test takers would get them.

^^ Agreed. Making a few people very wealthy is the true objective of that test.
Mission accomplished thanks to dcps. Geniuses

Congratulations!

Your enthusiasm for PARCC testing has made James Fallon, the Pearson Ed CEO, his shareholders, and the many highly-paid OSSE consultants who massage the data that tiny bit wealthier! Why should Fallon settle for a net worth of hundreds of millions when the sky's the limit?

10 hours of testing for a 9 or 10 year old via a poorly designed and worded test, hurrah!!

Congratulations for bragging about this to anonymous people on the internet.

Kiddo got a 5 in math and 4 in ELA for 3rd grade last year (DCPS) I’ll take it.