Anonymous wrote:Both 2's, but has a 3.2 GPA. Guess she can do better.

Child is at Wilson.

Ok thank you! Mine got a 2 and 3 (at Deal) which freaked me out. He gets really good grades and seems fine academically-- though obviously not on the college or career track?

Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me determine if I received an incomplete assessment...my child's report showed a Level 5 for English; however, no where does it show the comparison data i am reading about in the thread. It just has 5 Meets or Exceeds check marks. For her math score it was a 4, but again no breakdown of subcategories, just the Meets or Exceeds check mark again. Has anyone else received a report like this? I am not certain I have a complete assessment. Thank you for your feedback.

Of course I can't find the actual report (from Alice Deal) right now, but this is what I remember that it had: (1) green check marks next to the proficiency level (4 meets, 5 exceeds, etc.) (2) a horizontal number line type of exhibit that showed the whole scale (I think 0 to 850), with the cut points for each proficiency level, and then where my kid's scale score fell on the continuum; (3) results for the school (% 5's, 4's, etc.); (4) an exhibit comparing my child's performance this year on the PARCC with her performance last year on the DC-CAS -- again, two number line type exhibits showing her percentile this year on PARCC compared with her percentile last year on DC-CAS; (5) on the back, results on sub-tests -- I *think* this was number of items right out of the total -- I remember reading and writing sub- scores and math was broken down into categories like number & operations, measurement, geometry, etc.; (6) my child's percentile score out of all DC 7th graders, all DCPS 7th graders, and all Alice Deal students.

I can't imagine why the report card format would vary from school to school, esp. within DCPS.

For the PP with a child at Duke Ellington, did your report have the data breakout or just green check marks stating meets or exceeds???

Both 2's, but has a 3.2 GPA. Guess she can do better.

Child is at Wilson.

5s in English, 4s in math. Duke Ellington.

I would never Kumon my third grader, because that would be sad and pathetic. Obviously, she needs to work harder in math--and, indeed, it would have been nice to get the score nine months ago so she could have been all this time... But it's not the end of the world.

Nor, are engineering jobs the world's savior. Everyone has their own strengths. Those of us who aren't sad and type a know this.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me determine if I received an incomplete assessment...my child's report showed a Level 5 for English; however, no where does it show the comparison data i am reading about in the thread. It just has 5 Meets or Exceeds check marks. For her math score it was a 4, but again no breakdown of subcategories, just the Meets or Exceeds check mark again. Has anyone else received a report like this? I am not certain I have a complete assessment. Thank you for your feedback.

Does your child go to a DCPS or a charter school?

My 8th grade charter school student received the comparison data in his report.

DCPS - School Without Walls specifically.

Anonymous wrote:Can someone help me determine if I received an incomplete assessment...my child's report showed a Level 5 for English; however, no where does it show the comparison data i am reading about in the thread. It just has 5 Meets or Exceeds check marks. For her math score it was a 4, but again no breakdown of subcategories, just the Meets or Exceeds check mark again. Has anyone else received a report like this? I am not certain I have a complete assessment. Thank you for your feedback.

Does your child go to a DCPS or a charter school?

Can someone help me determine if I received an incomplete assessment...my child's report showed a Level 5 for English; however, no where does it show the comparison data i am reading about in the thread. It just has 5 Meets or Exceeds check marks. For her math score it was a 4, but again no breakdown of subcategories, just the Meets or Exceeds check mark again. Has anyone else received a report like this? I am not certain I have a complete assessment. Thank you for your feedback.

We received results for our Deal 7th grader in the mail yesterday. We've been getting test results from DCPS for about 12 years, all the way back to the SAT9 days, and this score report was the most informative & accessible one I've received. The graphic showing how the scale scores map onto the proficiency levels was well done and easy to interpret. Like an earlier poster I found the school-level statistics helpful (great to have the school scores on the report itself, rather than having to go look them up) and in particular the information about my child's percentile vis a vis her peers at the same school. I thought the links to resources online for more information and help were well-done, too. All-in-all a well-designed and helpful report. If this is what you get when states pool their resources on a testing program rather than reinventing the wheel on their own, then I'm all for it!

Anonymous wrote:Have all schools received scores? We have not received from our charter yet and wondering if t is just our child, our school, or a larger group throughout the city.

OSSE got the results to schools the thursday or friday before break (varied depending on the mail delivery time).

Up to schools to decide how to distribute (send home with kids, mail, etc).

Ask your principal/front office staff once break is over.

"information specific to how your child did relative to peers at his/her school does not add a lot of value and could create a more competitive environment or disheartening to individual children."

I actually thought this was the most helpful information - seeing how DC did against her peers. I know what the curriculum is at our school, and I know the quality of the teachers, so it is useful to see how well or not well that information was absorbed by DC. Though, of course, with the design of the test and use of the computer, it is a less than perfect stat.

It's my understanding that mailing the individual scores is the responsibility of the school. They aren't/weren't mailed from OSSE. So you need to ask your principal when your students will receive their score reports. We attend Stoddert and received our reports I couple days before Christmas via mail.

Have all schools received scores? We have not received from our charter yet and wondering if t is just our child, our school, or a larger group throughout the city.