On skills-based subjects, end-of-year testing is fine.
Good to know. Thanks.
I agree with you that I'd rather see 90% proficiency on a skill. The 80% is probably coming from Winebrenner's book, and it's the only thing in the book I disagree with. I taught math. If I could insist on 95% or 98% proficiency, I would. My feeling is that if you don't have really solid skills in the skills-based subjects (math, grammar, handwriting, foreign language, reading decoding (that's by contrast to the content-based subjects -- science, social studies, literature, written composition, etc)), you are eventually going to get overwhelmed and bog down and be miserable.
This makes sense to me. My eyes widened when 80% proficiency was mentioned. I'm not in a rush, and I only have one student, so 90% as a minimum, and 95%+ as a target is what seems good to me. (It's nice to have someone second that idea!)
I appreciate the technical info and will dig into that more when I have time.
Again, thank you all for your help and encouragement.
