Requesting DC's MAP Scores?

[Anonymous]

I was hoping to get the details for DC’s latest MAP tests. I want the detailed breakdown, not the summary that will show up in ParentVue a few months from now. I’d like to know exactly how they’re doing once a year and see their actual subsections scores.

I have asked DC’s counselor for this information twice over the past two weeks and have not gotten a response. I’m pretty sure I’m entitled to this information. Now, the counselor seems like a lovely person and I don’t want to make trouble for them; however, the other times I’ve written them they got back to me so this feels odd.

Who do I need to write to get help with this or is there another way to handle it?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to get the details for DC’s latest MAP tests. I want the detailed breakdown, not the summary that will show up in ParentVue a few months from now. I’d like to know exactly how they’re doing once a year and see their actual subsections scores.

I have asked DC’s counselor for this information twice over the past two weeks and have not gotten a response. I’m pretty sure I’m entitled to this information. Now, the counselor seems like a lovely person and I don’t want to make trouble for them; however, the other times I’ve written them they got back to me so this feels odd.

Who do I need to write to get help with this or is there another way to handle it?

Thanks

If it makes you feel better, OP, I also requested DC's scores and heard nothing. My guess is, everyone's so overwhelmed these days but, I agree, this does feel odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was hoping to get the details for DC’s latest MAP tests. I want the detailed breakdown, not the summary that will show up in ParentVue a few months from now. I’d like to know exactly how they’re doing once a year and see their actual subsections scores.

I have asked DC’s counselor for this information twice over the past two weeks and have not gotten a response. I’m pretty sure I’m entitled to this information. Now, the counselor seems like a lovely person and I don’t want to make trouble for them; however, the other times I’ve written them they got back to me so this feels odd.

Who do I need to write to get help with this or is there another way to handle it?

Thanks

Stop bugging the counselor. You don't need this stuff. They have better things to do than respond to your silly requests!

[Anonymous]

I suggest you write directly to the teacher and ask them for the information. If they don't answer you, re-request and copy the Principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suggest you write directly to the teacher and ask them for the information. If they don't answer you, re-request and copy the Principal.

This is MS so they have a lot of different teachers.

[Anonymous]

Ask the counselor, copy the principal and also politely ask who in MCPS central office should you ask for this info.

If that does not work, forward that letter to BOE, area superintendent, and superintended while continuing to CC your principal and counselor. I am a very polite parent who basically copies every single person I know in the most helpless and pleading manner, for these kinds of requests. It embarrasses the heck out of people and also I am a loose cannon that needs to be handled. Try it.

Also, once I get the information, I post it on our parents listserv and sometimes I post a PSA on DCUM. It works very well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I suggest you write directly to the teacher and ask them for the information. If they don't answer you, re-request and copy the Principal.

This is MS so they have a lot of different teachers.

Sorry to have assumed ES. I like the style of the immediate PP here who says copy more people. Also, you can try adding your grade level administrator (usually an assistant principal, but sometimes also Assistant School Administrator), and if you can figure out who your school's testing coordinator is, that is a bonus option! I am not sure the counsellors understand how to access the testing info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ask the counselor, copy the principal and also politely ask who in MCPS central office should you ask for this info.

If that does not work, forward that letter to BOE, area superintendent, and superintended while continuing to CC your principal and counselor. I am a very polite parent who basically copies every single person I know in the most helpless and pleading manner, for these kinds of requests. It embarrasses the heck out of people and also I am a loose cannon that needs to be handled. Try it.

Also, once I get the information, I post it on our parents listserv and sometimes I post a PSA on DCUM. It works very well.

Hahaha

[Anonymous]

So that you know what to ask for -

https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/QRM2_MAP_Reports_Summary_QuickRef.pdf


https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/maphelp/Content/Data/SampleReports/FamilyReport.htm

[Anonymous]

OP if the scores haven't yet come out on ParentVUE (they used to come out in mid Nov but I don't know if the date will be different this year), maybe the breakdown isn't yet available and they are ignoring your email until they have the info you asked for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP if the scores haven't yet come out on ParentVUE (they used to come out in mid Nov but I don't know if the date will be different this year), maybe the breakdown isn't yet available and they are ignoring your email until they have the info you asked for.

The school system has this and could provide it but chooses not to.

OP, I would escalate as PP suggested. If that doesn’t work, you could make an official request for your child’s entire education record, which you are entitled to under federal law. In my experience, once you do this they are quick to offer you the record you have already ask for but we’re denied. Make clear you want the teacher’s report, not the parent’s report.

Let us know how it goes!

[Anonymous]

Personally, I would wait until these are on parentvue before I followed up again. I think it's possible that schools don't have the full reports yet. For instance, don't these reports report district-wide numbers that may not have yet been calculated (I know that my dc was out sick during map-testing week two weeks ago and was brought in for a makeup this past week...so her school's school-specific numbers have also surely not yet been calculated.)

Best practice on the counselor's part would be to at least acknowledge your request if they don't yet have data in hand. But that's not really here nor there-- if you wait til the scores, themselves, are posted, they are more likely to have the full reports in hand and also be in a position where they can fill your request.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I would wait until these are on parentvue before I followed up again. I think it's possible that schools don't have the full reports yet. For instance, don't these reports report district-wide numbers that may not have yet been calculated (I know that my dc was out sick during map-testing week two weeks ago and was brought in for a makeup this past week...so her school's school-specific numbers have also surely not yet been calculated.)

Best practice on the counselor's part would be to at least acknowledge your request if they don't yet have data in hand. But that's not really here nor there-- if you wait til the scores, themselves, are posted, they are more likely to have the full reports in hand and also be in a position where they can fill your request.

It's nice that you're giving the benefit of the doubt PP, but people who know how to use the NWEA system can get these reports the second the child finishes the test. The problem is that most folks in the schools don't know how to use the system when they should know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I would wait until these are on parentvue before I followed up again. I think it's possible that schools don't have the full reports yet. For instance, don't these reports report district-wide numbers that may not have yet been calculated (I know that my dc was out sick during map-testing week two weeks ago and was brought in for a makeup this past week...so her school's school-specific numbers have also surely not yet been calculated.)

Best practice on the counselor's part would be to at least acknowledge your request if they don't yet have data in hand. But that's not really here nor there-- if you wait til the scores, themselves, are posted, they are more likely to have the full reports in hand and also be in a position where they can fill your request.

It's nice that you're giving the benefit of the doubt PP, but people who know how to use the NWEA system can get these reports the second the child finishes the test. The problem is that most folks in the schools don't know how to use the system when they should know.

Do tell so that we can also know for the next test

[Anonymous]

My DS's elementary school teacher pulled up the sub scores for me less than a week after the test a couple weeks ago. During distance learning right after DS finished a test, the screen showed how he did overall and I think it showed the scores for different components.