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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: The "growth model" in homeschooling (was: "Chicago's Educational ...
The first post in this thread (which I started) was a while ago, so I want to say for anyone who missed it that in it I had made the point that in some of those states where standardized tests are required for homeschooled kids (not all states require testing), they are found to have made "adequate academic progress" even if they don't reach a certain score or percentile - as long as they have made a certain amount of progress, as measured by a test (for example, "one academic year of growth" over the course of a school year). This is similar to the "growth models" being talked about for public school kids. My son, who is eight, just jumped from what would generally be considered a "kindergarten reading level" to a "second-grade level" in a single month. This sort of erratic progress is common amongst homeschoolers, and especially unschoolers. It's also not uncommon amongst public and private school kids, though in most schools a kid who is "two years behind" by the end of second grade will have hell to pay for it - while my son was spared as I blithely went on reading the Science section of The New York Times and "junior-high" books like The Call of the Wild aloud to him. Using a "growth model" (and not requiring testing for very young children) makes sense to me - if you're going to test at all. Elsa Haas -----Original Message----- From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On Behalf Of Laurelathome@cs.com Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 12:33 AM To: arn-l@interversity.org Subject: Re: [arn-l] The "growth model" in homeschooling (was: "Chicago's Educational ... The implication of any arbitrary test score for homeschoolers is that the child will be pulled from homeschooling if he doesn't reach the score. The same implication does not hold true for children who attend school. Nobody pulls them out of school if they fail to achieve. At best (or at worst) they simply change schools.
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