Granted my dd is older so the schools are no longer involved in selecting what she reads for free reading, but dd12 came home with a similarly ridiculous reading assessment. Her middle school is using a measure called "acuity" - an online test of sorts. The questions for her grade (8th) were comprised of 7th grade reading comprehension and 8th grade reading comprehension in order to see whether they had retained the info from the year prior and what they would need to learn from this year's curriculum
I know that dd wasn't the only child to get a "100th percentile" score. (eta: we're well aware that the 100th percentile doesn't exist.) She didn't miss any of the questions. Like your dd, this is a kiddo who, two years ago, tested at around 1500 on the lexile test the school gave, who scored better than the avg high school student on the critical reading and writing part of the SAT last year, and whose reading scores on tests like MAPS were well beyond 8th grade by 2nd - 3rd grade.
Not only for my dd, but apparently for a lot of the kids in the accelerated classes, these tests are meaningless. I don't imagine that they can measure growth when the kid didn't miss any of the questions on the pretest measure, if we want to consider it that.
Good luck in your situation. I hope that they don't serve as gate keepers regarding what she can or cannot read!
Last edited by Cricket2; 10/05/10 06:16 AM.
