I've been looking through old posts and can't find an exact answer to this question. My daughter's school uses the STAR test. She has been scoring at 12.9 in reading for ages, which I think is the maximum, but they have started giving percentiles and those seem to have dropped. Wouldn't that just be because more kids get higher scores as they get older? My understanding is that it is supposed to estimate the grade level at which she is working, not give the comparison to a child from twelfth grade doing seventh grade work. Is that right?

I also seem to remember that they can only work a couple grades above their current grade in math. So does that mean that the ceiling for a seventh grader would be ninth grade?

Thanks very much for any help so I understand this for her parent teacher conference.

Last edited by apm221; 10/13/16 03:04 PM.