MAP Lexile Score

[Anonymous]

I just noticed kid's Lexile score range has the same top and bottom number (99%'ile reader but this has never happened before). Has anyone ever seen that? Google is not helping shed light.

[Anonymous]

Lexile range has been included in the MAP-R report as far back as I can remember.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lexile range has been included in the MAP-R report as far back as I can remember.

Yes, but what does it mean when the range limits are the same??

[Anonymous]

What grade? If they're beyond 1500 lexile there may not be a range

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What grade? If they're beyond 1500 lexile there may not be a range

It certainly continues beyond 1500 since my kid's range is 1670L - 1820L.

I haven't seen an instance where top and bottom of range matched. I'm sure you could ask your child's teacher what the deal is, especially if they are in elementary school since it can be useful for you in finding good books that are challenging but readable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What grade? If they're beyond 1500 lexile there may not be a range

It certainly continues beyond 1500 since my kid's range is 1670L - 1820L.

I haven't seen an instance where top and bottom of range matched. I'm sure you could ask your child's teacher what the deal is, especially if they are in elementary school since it can be useful for you in finding good books that are challenging but readable.

I doubt kid's teacher (8th grade) will know. I guess I'll have to do a deep dive in the literature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What grade? If they're beyond 1500 lexile there may not be a range

It certainly continues beyond 1500 since my kid's range is 1670L - 1820L.

I haven't seen an instance where top and bottom of range matched. I'm sure you could ask your child's teacher what the deal is, especially if they are in elementary school since it can be useful for you in finding good books that are challenging but readable.

I doubt kid's teacher (8th grade) will know. I guess I'll have to do a deep dive in the literature.

PP here. If it helps at all, my kid got a score of 243 around that age and a lexile range of 1420-1570. I wouldn't sweat the lexile range too much at that age, honestly. I think there is much more variance on whether the student is having difficulty with informational texts versus literary or how their vocab is.

[Anonymous]

Where do you find the scores?

[Anonymous]

Just look up how they calculate lexile scores and you should find your answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you find the scores?

Lexile scores are included on the MAP-R parent report.

[Anonymous]

I believe the lexile range is supposed to go from 100 points below the child's lexile to 50 points above. So even if your kid was at the top of the charts it should still be able to do the "minus 100" part...

[Anonymous]

It is impossible to overstate how unimportant this is.

[Anonymous]

When your kid MAP score is over 255, the range '-100 ~+50' thing starts to diminish, and at some point the lexile range is not range anymore, just the same top and bottom number. I think it is mid 260s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What grade? If they're beyond 1500 lexile there may not be a range

It certainly continues beyond 1500 since my kid's range is 1670L - 1820L.

I haven't seen an instance where top and bottom of range matched. I'm sure you could ask your child's teacher what the deal is, especially if they are in elementary school since it can be useful for you in finding good books that are challenging but readable.

I doubt kid's teacher (8th grade) will know. I guess I'll have to do a deep dive in the literature.

You didn't say what the Lexile score was but it tops out at 2000...so if your 8th grader had a very high MAP score it's possible to have two Lexile numbers that are the same at or near the very upper level. As others have said it doesn't mean a whole lot. We've used it to search for books online, but it can be difficult to find high-lexile books for a 12-year old that are also age-appropriate

[Anonymous]

Looks like that can happen at 1825 for scores 263 and higher:

https://tests.school/media/files/pdf/nwea-map-growth-reading-score-to-lexile-rit-score.pdf