We only 'won' the right to testing at academic placement (well, okay only ONE year behind... and I think I've talked elsewhere about how debatable current placement is...)

anyway.

We won this point with the school by pointing out the problem of OVER-INTERPRETATION OF TEST ITEMS in a child testing minus 2-7 levels from academic placement could, just possibly result in a child performing LESS well on the, say... third grade assessment.... <ahem> as opposed to the fifth grade assessment. Besides, aren't these things supposed to be tied to state standards?? Not much good to test the student on material they haven't even seen in years and years...

hardly surprising if testing isn't as good as it might be if the student were taking the assessment intended for their academic level.


wink IMMV, of course.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.