I just received the test scores from the California Achievement Test-Level 4 for my child who is currently in 6th grade. My state law says: "A student’s score shall be deemed adequate if:
(a) the student has a composite score above the thirty-third percentile on national norms; or
(b) the student’s score reflects one academic year of growth as compared to a test administered during or subsequent to the prior school year.
So the scores are as follows:
Grade Equivalent Percentile Rank Stanine
Reading Vocabulary: 10.1 90 8
Reading Comprehension 9.1 74 6
Mathematics Computation 8.5 75 6
Mathematics Concepts & prob. 8.6 79 7
Language Mechanics 6.3 41 5
Language Usage & Structure 7.2 51 5
Language Spelling 7.6 58 5
My question is, did we get a score that is above the 33rd percentile for the state? (Is the state referring to the percentile rank??) What does the stanine number mean? Is it terrible that we scored 6.3 for the grade equivalent in Language Mechanics when my child is in 6th grade?? Do you think these scores are good? (CAN YOU TELL THIS IS THE FIRST STATE TEST WE HAVE TAKEN!)