Anonymous wrote: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.
This argument makes no sense to me. There is no educational benefit to the actual students being subjected to the test. I'm not trying to harm my kid's school, but I also don't want to harm my kid by forcing him to sit for hours upon hours of testing knowing that nobody is going to look at his individual scores and use them to help him.
Anonymous wrote: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.
This argument makes no sense to me. There is no educational benefit to the actual students being subjected to the test. I'm not trying to harm my kid's school, but I also don't want to harm my kid by forcing him to sit for hours upon hours of testing knowing that nobody is going to look at his individual scores and use them to help him.
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.
Anonymous wrote:You could fix the MS/HS problem by making DC CAPE count towards kids grades. That's what they do with Regents in NYS and it works.
Anonymous wrote:You could fix the MS/HS problem by making DC CAPE count towards kids grades. That's what they do with Regents in NYS and it works.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote:Talk to your school's testing coordinator.
Anonymous wrote:You could fix the MS/HS problem by making DC CAPE count towards kids grades. That's what they do with Regents in NYS and it works.
Anonymous wrote: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.
+1
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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
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.