MAP Scores in HS

[Anonymous]

Do MAP scores matter for HS kids? In ES and in MS MAP scores are used by MCPS to select kids for CES and Magnet MS and HS. Is MCPS using MAP scores for any decisions in HS?

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

Ditto, nothing. Not sure why they do them except I guess it gives the school a sense of how kids as a whole are learning.

[Anonymous]

That's what they always were meant for -- a way of seeing how schools and school systems were doing overall. Using them for CES and the like has been done out of convenience and cost reduction. Though over a long series (multiple tests over years) there can be some indication of a student's progress, and teachers can use that as a hint for what a child might need, individual MAP scores at any one point in time aren't particularly reliable as the guiding indicator of a student's ability.

By high school, when program admission is water under the bridge and courses are more or less self-selected (allowing for pre-requisites), MAP remains as that means of evaluating school/school system performance, with great enough numbers to be statistically significant, and, perhaps, giving parents additional data points in the series, to go along with grades when considering their child's probable progress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ditto, nothing. Not sure why they do them except I guess it gives the school a sense of how kids as a whole are learning.

They administered them in HS this year to meet the state mandate for diagnostic testing for the kids who were in 8th grade last year. They do not normally use MAP in HS.

[Anonymous]

Why wouldn't MCAP suffice? My child's school had a full month of testing. It was insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn't MCAP suffice? My child's school had a full month of testing. It was insane.

The MCAP results don't come fast enough to be an actionable diagnostic, I guess.