Anonymous wrote:The whole set-up is just wrong.

The tests are way too long, and the fact that they are high-stakes for teachers but not for the students who take them just creates all sorts of weird dynamics.

+1000

It is completely ridiculous. Choose a test that matters to kids (PSAT, SAT) for HS. For elementary do a one hour test in English, math, science. Keep it moving. You can’t tell me these results are meaningful given how many kids get bored, just click through, lose motivation.

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Anonymous wrote:The testing for my 8th grader has been a shitshow. She is absolutely not making any effort, and she's one of the "good" kids.

I'm hearing some issues with kids being kicked out every few minutes and other platform issues.

This usually happens when another program tries to open. It could be hitting a key that’s a short cut key or when Teams automatically starts when a computer is started up. Ours are so slow that kids can get logged into the test before Teams opens up.

Talk to your school's testing coordinator.

Anonymous wrote:The whole set-up is just wrong.

The tests are way too long, and the fact that they are high-stakes for teachers but not for the students who take them just creates all sorts of weird dynamics.

DC should scrap the HS CAPE and go with PSAT 8/9 or SAT. A gazillion school districts around the country do this.

Anonymous wrote:Making sure your kids take the test, as long as they do reasonably well, helps your school. PARCC/CAPE scores are used for a lot of things including rankings.

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The whole set-up is just wrong.

The tests are way too long, and the fact that they are high-stakes for teachers but not for the students who take them just creates all sorts of weird dynamics.

Making sure your kids take the test, as long as they do reasonably well, helps your school. PARCC/CAPE scores are used for a lot of things including rankings.

Anonymous wrote:The testing for my 8th grader has been a shitshow. She is absolutely not making any effort, and she's one of the "good" kids.

Good kids make an effort.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

The math and ELA have the same amount of units (3 hours each), so something weird is happening with your kid/school.

Some schools have to take a third pilot unit that doesn’t count. But schools don’t know which is the extra unit of English.

Anonymous wrote:The testing for my 8th grader has been a shitshow. She is absolutely not making any effort, and she's one of the "good" kids.

I'm hearing some issues with kids being kicked out every few minutes and other platform issues.

My 8th grader at DCI is taking Integrated Math, which is IB-based and is mostly Algebra 1 with a little Geometry sprinkled in. But they said their class took the Geometry CAPE test, even though they've barely been taught any Geometry yet.

Let your kids skip it!

It’s useless and a waste of time.

The tests are 60 minutes for math and 90 minutes for ELA- 3 sections each. With all of the direction reading and getting materials set up, you can add close to 30 minutes to those times. Plus some kids get extended time due to IEPs.

Many schools do one test per day so kids don't get tired. Some will do two tests in a day.

The testing for my 8th grader has been a shitshow. She is absolutely not making any effort, and she's one of the "good" kids.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is in 5th grade this year and has testing over 3 days. For English and Science, the testing takes up 75% of the day. Math was only one morning. Was this how the 5th grade PARCC test was? In 3rd and 4th grades, PARCC was only a couple of hours on one day.

The math and ELA have the same amount of units (3 hours each), so something weird is happening with your kid/school.

My kids elementary school does the testing in three days per section. It's 6 days total. I don't know how long each section takes per day.