Anonymous wrote:We know families in DCPS who have been told their kids' scores, though we haven't gotten ours.

Anonymous wrote:Washington Post:

By Lauren Lumpkin
August 22, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
D.C. students performed slightly better on standardized tests this year than in 2023, newly released data shows, but city leaders say they’re still pushing to get students performing at the same levels they were before the pandemic.

When students took exams this spring, 34 percent were meeting or exceeding expectations in reading, up a third of a percentage point from last year. In math, 22.8 percent of children were on grade level — up 0.7 of a point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/08/22/dc-student-test-scores-academic-recovery/

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Anonymous wrote:the schools have your kids results. they just havent given them to you. this is a dc thing. children in other states got their results a long time ago. for whatever reason, dc puts off releasing them.

No, children in other states don’t have their DC CAPE results. It’s a DC-only exam.

'CAPE' is just DC's lame attempt re-brand PARCC, and, yes, kids in other states got their PARCC scores a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:the schools have your kids results. they just havent given them to you. this is a dc thing. children in other states got their results a long time ago. for whatever reason, dc puts off releasing them.

No, children in other states don’t have their DC CAPE results. It’s a DC-only exam.

Anonymous wrote:the schools have your kids results. they just havent given them to you. this is a dc thing. children in other states got their results a long time ago. for whatever reason, dc puts off releasing them.

Anonymous wrote:last year we got our childs score in October

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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.

Wait, you already got your kid's 2024 test scores?

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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.