The VGA is testing for the end of the grade that your child is in. So a 4th grader's fall VGA is asking questions your 4th grader doesn't know yet. The scores will trend up as the year goes o.

Me too! My 3rd grader is high gifted, always scores in top 96% on other standardized tests and falls, ‘at risk’ on Fall and Winter tests.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you get 18 weeks?

Our teacher thinks that this was just to scare families into taking the winter SOL seriously. Said most of her kids were in the left or middle columns.

There's a winter SOL? I thought it was just another growth assessment that doesn't really count.

The VGA is basically the SOL. They take the Fall and Winter VGA then in spring its called the SOL and "counts"

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you get 18 weeks?

Our teacher thinks that this was just to scare families into taking the winter SOL seriously. Said most of her kids were in the left or middle columns.

There's a winter SOL? I thought it was just another growth assessment that doesn't really count.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get 18 weeks?

Our teacher thinks that this was just to scare families into taking the winter SOL seriously. Said most of her kids were in the left or middle columns.

I mentioned above but it put anyone who didn't pass at the upper end off pass advance into the middle or left category. From what I can tell everyone in the middle column would pass the SOLs and everyone in the right column would pass clearly at pass advance

Just to share more anecdata, my 5th grader had a pass advanced last spring on SOLs and was more than 100 points above the cutoff for the top category in both reading and math. It also shows that she missed several questions, so there must be room for even higher scores. I'm thinking the top category is likely the top 25th percentile, they just changed the label this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get 18 weeks?

Our teacher thinks that this was just to scare families into taking the winter SOL seriously. Said most of her kids were in the left or middle columns.

I mentioned above but it put anyone who didn't pass at the upper end off pass advance into the middle or left category. From what I can tell everyone in the middle column would pass the SOLs and everyone in the right column would pass clearly at pass advance

Anonymous wrote:Where do you get 18 weeks?

Our teacher thinks that this was just to scare families into taking the winter SOL seriously. Said most of her kids were in the left or middle columns.

Where do you get 18 weeks?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I have a 3rd grader with advanced academic placement and >99% on other recent tests. His VGA scores based on this parent guide say he’s at high risk and needs tutoring (middle category). Seems odd!

Same here. My 3rd grader scored 99% on the math part of the cogat last year and 96% on the map growth test this fall, and according to the VGA she needs 18 weeks of math tutoring?

Basically the same thing with my fourth grader and SOL. Something is off

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I have a 3rd grader with advanced academic placement and >99% on other recent tests. His VGA scores based on this parent guide say he’s at high risk and needs tutoring (middle category). Seems odd!

Same here. My 3rd grader scored 99% on the math part of the cogat last year and 96% on the map growth test this fall, and according to the VGA she needs 18 weeks of math tutoring?

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I have a 3rd grader with advanced academic placement and >99% on other recent tests. His VGA scores based on this parent guide say he’s at high risk and needs tutoring (middle category). Seems odd!

From what I heard the test basically identified everyone unless they scored in the top of advance pass in the SOL..so basically kids that would have just passed the SOL were assigned to the middle category. Ans again this us on stuff they haven't been taught yet. If my kid can pass the SOL before being taught the material I am not going to be that worried.