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No homework. No tests. No test prep. |
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If you know WFM at all, you know how
objectionable we find testing to be. Standardized testing is not consistent
with Montessori, does not take the individual student and an individualized
curriculum into account and is not needed as quality control at the end of an
educational assembly line (please see our rants on the factory model of
traditional (read No Child Left Behind (or NCLB) education)). But, for the
last two years, we have tested, if for no other reason than to respond to
requests for testing from our parents. |
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This year, the State of New Jersey's
Department of Education is considering a pilot program allowing non-public
schools to administer the NJ ASK to private school students. We've asked to
be part of it. The NJ ASK, the test administered to all public-school
students in NJ, is a product of NCLB legislation, which tied Federal
education funding to State test results and then proceeded to allow each
State to develop its own tests. Since the SAT-10 was the gold standard in
standardized testing before
NCLB, we are guessing that the NJ ASK will be a whole lot easier... |
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SAT-10 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
Grade 6 |
Grade 7 (LT) |
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May 2012 |
%ile |
Grade |
%ile |
Grade |
%ile |
Grade |
%ile |
Grade |
%ile |
Grade |
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Aggregate
Scores |
Rank |
Equiv. |
Rank |
Equiv. |
Rank |
Equiv. |
Rank |
Equiv. |
Rank |
Equiv. |
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Total Reading |
87 |
8.5 |
88 |
10.2 |
88 |
8.8 |
Aggregate |
95 |
11.0 |
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Total
Mathematics |
85 |
8.8 |
90 |
7.9 |
93 |
10.4 |
scores for
2012 |
88 |
8.6 |
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Language |
91 |
9.4 |
85 |
7.8 |
83 |
7.9 |
are not
available. |
92 |
10.5 |
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Science |
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85 |
6.7 |
79 |
7.0 |
86 |
9.3 |
2011 SAT-10
Results |
81 |
10.7 |
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Social
Science |
87 |
7.2 |
91 |
9.9 |
85 |
8.4 |
reported
below. |
77 |
9.8 |
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Total Battery |
85 |
8.3 |
86 |
9.9 |
85 |
10.7 |
84 |
10.8 |
87 |
11.8 |
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Results are vs 2002 National norms (pre-NCLB);
grade equivalents are reported in years.months; LT=students who have been at
WFM for more than two years. |
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Amazing things are happening here. |
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