Did anyone ever hear of this?

happymomof1
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:47:33 +0000

Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland has used the PSAT data for years in part to help identify students whose classroom performance doesn’t accurately represent their potential. [Strategic Plan - Montgomery County Public Schools](Strategic Plan - Montgomery County Public Schools | Montgomery County Public Schools | Rockville, MD) Any standardized exam would do for this purpose, but since Maryland doesn’t require an annual exam the way some other states do (for example most high schools in Iowa administer the ITED each year), MCPS uses 9th and 10th grade PSAT results. At Happykid’s old HS the principal told me that every single year the PSAT exams would pick up a number of honors/AP ready students who had somehow escaped notice despite the continual dragnet that every staff member participated in.