400 does not mean 50 percent questions answered correctly. 400 means 62 % answered correctly. Advanced requires 90 % or more correct. The cut scores are on the DOE website.

Still interested in hearing whether there is a a direct correspondence to questions answer correctly vs. the total. 400 + 50% correct seems way too low to be deemed passing or proficient.

Anonymous wrote:The test doesn't determine if the teacher gets fired or not. It determines if the teacher will teach that class the next year -- usually they just move the teacher to another grade level if the scores are very bad.

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Anonymous wrote:We just got back from vacation and got our scores. It was just one sheet (as in a brief letter) listing the scaled scores. I thought per the link below that they send you a report that lists the number of questions the kid got right in addition to the scaled scores, margin of error, lexiles, etc. Did anyone get a report like the one shown in this link or did you just get a brief letter as well?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/non-writing_understanding.pdf

We just received a brief letter -- nothing like the sample.

So...does anyone have any idea (maybe based on past experience) what a given range of scores could mean? My DC got in the 430s in reading and in the 570s in math. Does anyone know what that could correspond to in terms of % of questions missed? I'm also wondering if that puts him at risk of failing in reading next year, depending on what the standard deviation is. This report is truly useless.

400 is passing, but that usually only means about 50% of the questions were answered correctly. So, 430 is on the lower end, but it is still passing.

We got them in the envelope with the year end report card.

i think either late july or august i really dont know why there late

The test doesn't determine if the teacher gets fired or not. It determines if the teacher will teach that class the next year -- usually they just move the teacher to another grade level if the scores are very bad.

If your child doesn't do well; it will impact your student's placement in the math and english classes especially if you are wanting them in the extended/honors classes. The tests are so basic that your child should pass easily. It should be a red flag if they don't pass. Passing for some of these tests is getting only 50% of the questions correct. You can find the pass rate -- just google it.

Anonymous wrote:they will effect the teacher and will have no impact on the student. the sols determine if your child has a good teacher or not.

They do impact the student in 8th grade and in HS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just got back from vacation and got our scores. It was just one sheet (as in a brief letter) listing the scaled scores. I thought per the link below that they send you a report that lists the number of questions the kid got right in addition to the scaled scores, margin of error, lexiles, etc. Did anyone get a report like the one shown in this link or did you just get a brief letter as well?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/non-writing_understanding.pdf

We just received a brief letter -- nothing like the sample.

So...does anyone have any idea (maybe based on past experience) what a given range of scores could mean? My DC got in the 430s in reading and in the 570s in math. Does anyone know what that could correspond to in terms of % of questions missed? I'm also wondering if that puts him at risk of failing in reading next year, depending on what the standard deviation is. This report is truly useless.

the test determines wether the teacher gets fired or not

shut up the sols determine wether the teacher gets fired or nit and if they are worthy of their job

they will effect the teacher and will have no impact on the student. the sols determine if your child has a good teacher or not.

We only received a very minimal letter too and wish we had more info. Daughter aced math, but not as high in science as I would have expected.

I haven't been able to find info on number of questions missed, but check these links for some helpful insight into the reading SOL score:

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/lexile/index.shtml

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/lexile/resources/measure_relationship_to_sol/index.shtml

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just got back from vacation and got our scores. It was just one sheet (as in a brief letter) listing the scaled scores. I thought per the link below that they send you a report that lists the number of questions the kid got right in addition to the scaled scores, margin of error, lexiles, etc. Did anyone get a report like the one shown in this link or did you just get a brief letter as well?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/non-writing_understanding.pdf

We just received a brief letter -- nothing like the sample.

So...does anyone have any idea (maybe based on past experience) what a given range of scores could mean? My DC got in the 430s in reading and in the 570s in math. Does anyone know what that could correspond to in terms of % of questions missed? I'm also wondering if that puts him at risk of failing in reading next year, depending on what the standard deviation is. This report is truly useless.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We just got back from vacation and got our scores. It was just one sheet (as in a brief letter) listing the scaled scores. I thought per the link below that they send you a report that lists the number of questions the kid got right in addition to the scaled scores, margin of error, lexiles, etc. Did anyone get a report like the one shown in this link or did you just get a brief letter as well?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/non-writing_understanding.pdf

We just received a brief letter -- nothing like the sample.

Ditto

Anonymous wrote:We just got back from vacation and got our scores. It was just one sheet (as in a brief letter) listing the scaled scores. I thought per the link below that they send you a report that lists the number of questions the kid got right in addition to the scaled scores, margin of error, lexiles, etc. Did anyone get a report like the one shown in this link or did you just get a brief letter as well?

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/scoring/non-writing_understanding.pdf

We just received a brief letter -- nothing like the sample.