Can I just ask, what does "exceeds expectations" actually mean?
Part of a previous response recently posted upthread may address this:
The
study provides Table 4 and Table 6 which are "cut scores developed for each grade level and content area" for "Proficient-ELA" and "Proficient-Mathematics".
The downloadable "data linking table" on this
webpage (found by following the
study's linked reference #15) shows four categories for each grade level:
Not Met, Nearly Met, Met, Exceeded.
This corresponds to "
California set four levels of cut scores for ELA and mathematics" (resource
12 shows these to be 1, 2, 3, and 4) and "
Wisconsin provided cut scores on ELA and mathematics at four levels: below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced.11 The state set proficient to indicate performance that was on grade level."
This seems to indicate:
Met = Level 3 = Proficient = on grade level,
and
Exceeded = Level 4 = Advanced = above grade level.
The
article states, "
a MAP test score that is equivalent to ninth-grade performance is in fact based on ninth-grade content knowledge and skills."
Do the Smarter Balanced tests include lots of above-level questions? Or do they have lots of grade-level questions? I suspect the latter.
I believe this is why MAP test score results were also used by this study.
