I do have a couple of questions regarding EPGY. They state that they WANT them to be testing between 70-80% that it indicates that they are challenged...BUT my DS freaks out if he scores low.
This has been an issue in our house, too.
What I found helped was to explicitly tell DD that clicking "give up" was the way of telling the program "I don't understand what you're asking about at all, so next time explain it to me more." And that trying to figure it out, but being wrong on both attempts, also told the program to explain it better the next time. And that the reason the program wanted her to be getting 70-80% right was that it expected her to need more explanation of some things, and the only way to ask for more explanation was to be wrong.
I do have the choice to leave him at the current grade level, right?
There's no requirement to manually adjust the level, and if he's not getting all 100s, I personally wouldn't. (The EPGY guideline for a half-grade bump is a month-equivalent of 100s.) If he's getting almost all of the problems right on the first try, the program will zip through the material until he starts needing more in-depth explanation.
I don't believe there's any way to stop moving on to higher-level material, other than to do poorly on the end-of-grade assessment, though.
