Can you ask if there is a way to use "pretesting" material as a method of achieving some compacting of the next grade's material?
Susan Assouline, in Developing Math Talent, recommends this method.
Every single time I asked about that, the teacher seemed surprised and told me the pretest is for THEM so they can see what the class knows and doesn't know. I even tried to walk one willing teacher through what it would look like and it ended with: How could I give a student a grade if they don't do the work?
So, good luck on that one.
My kid has made perfect scores on certain subject pretest for the entire year, but there hasn't been any change in the instruction. At our school pre-tests are given, but for my student they seem meaningless.
I'm not even sure why they bother with them. They probably heard it was good to do pre-testing without realizing why it was good. Our school system does a lot of the "right" things, but doesn't implement them well.
