hi all
thank you for your help. We just got a call from the school that these are indeed grade equivalents, not percentiles, and its a mistake, but waiting for full report. They said they "think" they are around 50th percentile but i know just by common sense that a mid-year fourth grader with a 50th percentile score would be somewhere around a 4.5 GE not a 7.4 GE. Does that make sense?
They also mentioned that the same mistake happened with the math scores (Stanford math test), which I didn't pick up because they were reported as a round number of 6.. I thought it was 6th percentile, but again 6th GRADE!! big difference for a fourth grader. wow you really have to be on top of things. bad news for people who don't follow these boards and just wouldn't think twice about a decimal on a percentile score.
Irene
