Originally Posted by Mom2Two
Originally Posted by master of none
Originally Posted by DeeDee
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
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.

When we entered our ability-leveled charter for DS' first grade year, we asked that he be tested with an end-of-the-year third grade test in math. He had been doing third grade worksheets in Kindergarten and we also brought those to the meeting. The teacher seemed surprised by the request, but did do it. He completed the test with a high enough score that she placed him in the third grade level for this past year, however it hasn't been compacted. (See my post on when to ask for compaction and if it helps.) DS' gaps have been filled in, but now we have a problem with too much repetition.