MAP R score for 8th grade student
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Anonymous
| My son is in 8th grade and he got 242 in MAP R. I am not sure if its average or below average score for MAP R. Please share. |
Anonymous
| Ugh my son scored 224. 8th grade too. |
Anonymous
didn 6th grader scored 236 last fall. Their score has been pretty flat since 4th grade. I think 2 years of virtual hasn't helped. I need to encourage them to read more independently. |
Anonymous
| OP, that is what my 6th Grader scored! |
Anonymous
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You need to go into ParentVue and find their past scores, to assess whether they made reasonable progress compared to other years.
My DD consistently scores in the 98-99th percentile range, and DS in the 90-95th. The raw score matters less than the percentile range, which you get after many weeks/months, when the numbers are all processed. |
Anonymous
How is that helpful, especially with the exclamation? That’s a very high score so doesn’t speak to whether the 8th grader’s score is above average or not. (It is) My sixth and ninth graders had that score, too. It’s a strong score for all grades. You can read at the college level at this point and need to stop worrying about Map-R scores. |
Anonymous
If this was for the Spring test it looks like it is about 88th percentile for NEWA norms. The MCPS norms will be calculated later and then the MAP scores should be in ParentVUE for you to see percentiles this year compared to his other tests. |
Anonymous
+1 It was a very weird comment. OP that's a very good score for an 8th grader. The band of good scores gets narrower and narrower once you start getting into 6th grade. In elementary school you'd see huge jumps but starting in MS and in HS you might see more ups and downs in a similar range. |
Anonymous
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These sorts of questions on what MAP scores mean come up a lot because it takes MCPS so long to upload the score reports.
There is a norming document available online that lists all the percentiles. The percentiles are located in Appendix C. A 242 for Spring MAP R for 8th Grade is 89th%ile https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/normsResearchStudy.pdf |
Anonymous
For 6th Grade that is the 95%ile, which shows you how the distance between the school grade levels collapses after you reach the ability to read at a college level. |
Anonymous
many 5th graders score over 250 in Map R. Are these scores comparable across different grades? \ |
Anonymous
The test changes in 6th. Most kids have a drop between 5th and 6th because of the way the scoring works now. |
Anonymous
Yes and no, it's a different test in 6th grade. Kids that score high in 5th usually drop a few points in 6th but otherwise similar. |
Anonymous
My 7 th grader at Pyle just took the test and she knows the score right away, because it show it after the test ( instead of waiting for months for parents to get the score)- MAP R was 259 ( with 271 on Informal text ).I was so thrilled for her..but she felt like that may not be the highest😅 |