I agree with TX G Mom. My daughter has to take the NWEA twice a year (fall and spring) and she scores in the 99th percentile on almost everything. They should provide you with a score and a range that she falls in. I had to research and thanks to the wonderful people on this board, was given links that helped me figure out the actual grade range that her score was reflecting in. Hopefully you will be able to find the same information for your daughter.
It sounds like she was probably scoring outside of her grade level when the test shut off. I remember last year when I asked my daughter (2nd grade) how she felt she did on the Math section of the test. She told me she didn't feel like she did very well at all. I was trying to be encouraging and told her that as long as she gave her best effort, that was all that I could ask for. Then I asked her what seemed to confuse her on the test and she said, well, we it started asking me for something called square roots and I didn't really know what those were so I guessed. I asked her for an example and she said, it wanted to know the square root of 9, I asked her what she guessed and she said 3. I told her that was a correct guess and asked her why she selected the number 3 and she said because if you times 3 by itself it equals 9 and no other answer choice made sense like that.
She said she got the next one wrong though and the test shut off. When I got the score she was in the 99 percentile for her grade. Her RIT indicated that she would have still been in the 90th percentile if she had been in 4th grade (so two year difference).
So, the fact that she got some wrong is irrelevant, she was most likely in a much harder subject material then her current grade when the test shut off.
Last edited by kelly0523; 05/08/13 09:33 PM.
