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Here in Illinois the results came back. The numbers are way down compared to the old ISAT test. Has anyone noticed a significant difference with their gifted kids scores?

Has anyone got their kid's results yet?

We got them yesterday in the mail. not everyone here has. There was a lot of confusion originally because the results were only suppose to go to the school. Our district k-8 has 27 schools.15 percent got exceeds or level 5. My daughter's school had 26 percent. statewide it was only 3 percent.

In same district as nicoledad. We received our results Saturday in the mail. Ds10 (currently 4th grade) maxed out on 3rd grade math.

nicolesdad.. remember your school's number will be skewed a bit because of the magnet.

Frannie: True but not as skewed as the grade school because half of the magnets would have went their anyways.

Many of the high schoolers in the area opted out of the test because they were far beyond the math that was given on the test. The ones who weren't took the test and that's why the high school scores are lower.

In our school (title 1), the average math score for 3rd grade was 738 (20 points below district average). DS scored 100 points higher then the school (I wonder how much he actually brought up the school average). In reading, the school average was 741 (16 points below the district). Reading wasn't as dramatic with only 70 points above the school. Again, I wonder how his score affected the school. There are about 60 kids per grade level

In our district, clearly there were fewer that "met or exceeded" standards than prior years, but overall, I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of interpretation (for all of the "hype" about this test) - offering 5 levels of performance is not really very informative...especially considering how long it took for these results to come out. Cannot make heads or tails out of what the scaled scores might mean, other than seeing what level they are in. In sum, a great deal of testing time for virtually no new information.

We have not received our results yet, nine months later. (I should probably check my kids' backpacks to see if anything came home now that it's winter break...)

In my opinion, PARCC is utterly pointless, at least as far as individual students are concerned. Nine months is pathetic for a computerized test (e.g. MAP results are instantaneous).

In addition, I don't have any reason to have confidence in the quality of the test itself, not to mention the benchmarks (CC standards) it purports to measure against. As far as I know, the PARCC has never been validated.