Are my kids the only ones who bombed the spring MAP?

[Anonymous]

Grade 1 and 3. Each went down at least 10 percentile points (that's probably not the correct way to word it). Went from mid-90's to low 80's/upper 70's . WTF??!!

[Anonymous]

Is MAP the standardized testing? My kid goes to a private school so they call it something different, but yeah that happened with us. Upper 90’s down to mid-80’s. I explained that if every kid was getting higher scores at the end of the year, that would make the “compared to national average” percentile drop…not sure if that’s true though 🤔

[Anonymous]

5th grader's reading percentiles were 96, 93, 91 this year. His math ones stayed constant though. I think by the spring, many kids are just over it...

[Anonymous]

No, my 6th grader went up 20 points on the raw score (which in percentile still puts her in the 99th percentile). I told her not to be disappointed if it decreases next fall - at that level, it's probably just the run of questions she had.

In elementary I noticed that sometimes schools did not give all the recommended time to students for MAP (MAP is supposed to be unlimited time, but for practical reasons, schools do limit the time, sometimes not consistently). It's annoying if students want to be considered for the CES in 4th grade, because that's one of the criteria.

Other than that, just make sure they read this summer and do some basic math.

[Anonymous]

I think kids started off this year in very different places because of the disaster that was virtual learning the prior year. More kids caught up to wear they were supposed to by end of year. Meaning I think the curve got harder as things normalized.

[Anonymous]

Except for the fact that MCPS has moved to using it for placement, any one MAP score is too statistically unreliable to be a measure in which to place much faith or concern (which is why it is terrible that MCPS has decided to keep using it for placement for the next couple of years).

[Anonymous]

My 2nd grade son consistently improved (but he could barely read at the beginning of the year and we were figuring out accommodations for his ADHD so I would have been worried if there hadn't been improvements). Went from below average to above average in both reading and math.

My daughter's (5th grade) scores are all over the place. She's ranged anywhere from 65th percentile to 91st in reading. Math is a little less variable, but if you graphed them it would literally be a zig zag up and down about 10 percentile points each time. Often her raw score goes down from one test to the next (and not from spring to fall were you might blame it on summer slide). She's smart, but she is a terrible test taker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade 1 and 3. Each went down at least 10 percentile points (that's probably not the correct way to word it). Went from mid-90's to low 80's/upper 70's . WTF??!!

If you're defining 80th %ile as bombing, then in fact 80% of students bombed the MAP.

[Anonymous]

Younger only takes the MAP-P but was up about 20 points (99%). The older one is up 17 points on the MAP-M (99%+) and 7 points on the MAP-R (96%). My older child's MAP-R had been pretty static since the beginning of the pandemic but finally seems to be moving again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think kids started off this year in very different places because of the disaster that was virtual learning the prior year. More kids caught up to wear they were supposed to by end of year. Meaning I think the curve got harder as things normalized.

My kids continued to do well throughout the pandemic. I just made sure they paid attention and did their work despite school being remote. I think this made a big difference. Many of their classmates had tuned out and were even playing video games during class. It seems like many of the kids who were checked out and had minimal parental oversight did poorly.

[Anonymous]

My kids really bombed the math.

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader is always consistent in reading. But math is crazy. Anywhere from 68 to 96 in one year. Goes up and down.

[Anonymous]

My kid went from 76 in the fall on MAP-M to 95 in the spring. MAP-R improved too, but not as dramatically. Thank god they’re back in person and I hope they never have to do virtual again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade 1 and 3. Each went down at least 10 percentile points (that's probably not the correct way to word it). Went from mid-90's to low 80's/upper 70's . WTF??!!

You should be looking at the absolute score, not the percentile. Usually the raw RIT score goes up by a couple of points. A decrease in percentile just means that your kids were less affected by the pandemic than other kids, or at least not as disrupted in fall/winter.

[Anonymous]

My 4th grader went up 20 percentage points, down 20 percentage points in reading(!)