TCAP scores have been delayed and that’s caused some concern for teachers since students are out for the summer now. Without the TCAP scores, teachers were not able to finalize students grades which has 20 percent factored from the TCAP results.  Now 101 school districts have been granted waivers to avoid calculating TCAP into students final grades.

State officials decided to complete a process called post-equating before releasing test results this year.

Commonly used in large-scale testing, post-equating involves comparing student performance on certain test items that are repeated each year to make sure results are statistically valid.

Normally this happens after early scores are released, but because of changes to the test this year, officials say they decided to do it before releasing scores.

The test was narrowed to remove portions that don’t align with new Common Core standards. Classrooms across the state have been phasing in the standards for three years, but the state has not switched to a test designed to match those new standards.