Yearly Testing
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 5:50 am
Jayden had her yearly testing yesterday. This is her second year, so we were able to see what HOD can really do 
She was a little more than halfway through Beyond last year and is not quite halfway through Bigger right now. We took a break in the fall to let her reading and amount of writing catch up with her brain. We are almost through with Singapore 2A right now, and were through 1A when she tested last year. We also repeated 1B in the fall just to solidfy the math for her. We have never practiced math facts, just the hands on activities and the Singapore books.
The only comment the testing person wrote down for me was that it seemed like Jayden would go the long way around solving word problems. This is just Jayden... she goes the long way around doing ANYTHING. She also told me that she would throw out the punctuation and capitalization portion because notoriously the 2nd graders score low... they are fine 1st and 3rd grade, but for some reason the 2nd grade test throws them off.
As far as scores go...
Letter-Word Identification (just reading a list of words) went from 2.9 to 4.7 (grade levels, 2 grade 9th month to 4th grade 7th month)
Reading Fluency (speed) went from 2.8 to 3.2
Calculation (ability to do math) went from 2.6 to 3.5
Math Fluency (speed of math) went from 1.5 to 2.0 ( we need to work on addition and subtraction facts)
Spelling went from 2.2 to 3.7 (dictation works wonders!!)
Passage Comprehension went from 2.4 to 3.5
Applied Problems (word problems) went from 2.3 to 4.4!!
Punctuation and Capitals went from 1.6 to 2.1 (I expect this to just explode next year because we'll be finished with Bigger and most of the way finished with Preparing before her testing next year...)
So now, I can absolutely see the jump from Beyond to Bigger as far as skills go. And when they are ready to move up to Bigger they just blossom!!
She was a little more than halfway through Beyond last year and is not quite halfway through Bigger right now. We took a break in the fall to let her reading and amount of writing catch up with her brain. We are almost through with Singapore 2A right now, and were through 1A when she tested last year. We also repeated 1B in the fall just to solidfy the math for her. We have never practiced math facts, just the hands on activities and the Singapore books. The only comment the testing person wrote down for me was that it seemed like Jayden would go the long way around solving word problems. This is just Jayden... she goes the long way around doing ANYTHING. She also told me that she would throw out the punctuation and capitalization portion because notoriously the 2nd graders score low... they are fine 1st and 3rd grade, but for some reason the 2nd grade test throws them off.
As far as scores go...
Letter-Word Identification (just reading a list of words) went from 2.9 to 4.7 (grade levels, 2 grade 9th month to 4th grade 7th month)
Reading Fluency (speed) went from 2.8 to 3.2
Calculation (ability to do math) went from 2.6 to 3.5
Math Fluency (speed of math) went from 1.5 to 2.0 ( we need to work on addition and subtraction facts)
Spelling went from 2.2 to 3.7 (dictation works wonders!!)
Passage Comprehension went from 2.4 to 3.5
Applied Problems (word problems) went from 2.3 to 4.4!!
Punctuation and Capitals went from 1.6 to 2.1 (I expect this to just explode next year because we'll be finished with Bigger and most of the way finished with Preparing before her testing next year...)
So now, I can absolutely see the jump from Beyond to Bigger as far as skills go. And when they are ready to move up to Bigger they just blossom!!
