Are CAASPP scores normalized to the performance of recent student populations?
My 6th grader scored at an "11th grade level" (quantile score 1200 Q) on her CAASPP math, and I'm a bit confused by what that can even mean.
She is good about doing her homework in her grade level curriculum, but that's all she does. She isn't the slightest bit excited by math nor do anything extracurricular.
I didn't sit with her for the test obviously, but there's no way she, for example, was presented with a question requiring her to use the quadratic formula or factor a polynomial and she just figured it out on her own on the fly (and presumably she'd need such knowledge to be at an 11th grade level?)
She is in fact behind on her work this year (she should be coming up to the end of the book, but she's only half way through, we are planning on catching up through summer. ) We haven't even got the the chapter on exponents.
Is this a relative assessment? Is it due to other kids performing poorly in recent years? Because the curriculum she is doing is grade level, it's not 11th grade material unless 11th graders are just stagnating right now. She has not been taught anything beyond the curriculum.
There must be some kind of normalization happening. I imagine at some point some population of students was taken into consideration for defining grade level material. But is this continuously updated year by year, or were these standards set at some point and kept constant?
edit: I confused the test score with the quantile score.