MCAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Not a thing. My child got the highest score possible and nowhere did it say he got 100 percent. The scoring is not communicated that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

MCAP tests intelligence, MAP tests exposure. Sorry.

That’s … completely untrue.

Correct MCAP is a lame version of the map which is just less well thought out. It is not an intelligence test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

They started giving the MCAP in 2019.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

They started giving the MCAP in 2019.

That is incorrect. The PARCC was given at the end of 2019, but MCAP was first administered in the fall of 2021. Its rollout was delayed because of the pandemic.

The article states it was their intent to phase out the PARCC after the end of 2019l.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-to-ditch-statewide-parcc-exams-in-favor-of-homegrown-test/2018/09/13/0cce74f2-b2c6-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Maryland students will see the last of the state’s PARCC exams — named for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career — during spring 2019. By that fall, PARCC will be replaced by new standardized tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

They started giving the MCAP in 2019.

That is incorrect. The PARCC was given at the end of 2019, but MCAP was first administered in the fall of 2021. Its rollout was delayed because of the pandemic.

The article states it was their intent to phase out the PARCC after the end of 2019l.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-to-ditch-statewide-parcc-exams-in-favor-of-homegrown-test/2018/09/13/0cce74f2-b2c6-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Maryland students will see the last of the state’s PARCC exams — named for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career — during spring 2019. By that fall, PARCC will be replaced by new standardized tests.

MSDE's Maryland Report Card site shows MCAP data for 2019:

https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/

[Anonymous]

I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

That was PARCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

They started giving the MCAP in 2019.

That is incorrect. The PARCC was given at the end of 2019, but MCAP was first administered in the fall of 2021. Its rollout was delayed because of the pandemic.

The article states it was their intent to phase out the PARCC after the end of 2019l.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-to-ditch-statewide-parcc-exams-in-favor-of-homegrown-test/2018/09/13/0cce74f2-b2c6-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Maryland students will see the last of the state’s PARCC exams — named for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career — during spring 2019. By that fall, PARCC will be replaced by new standardized tests.

Yes, I have the PARCC card for the Spring of 2019 too. MCAP was supposed to start the following year but was delayed because of the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

Here’s an anecdote to counter your anecdote. My kid also scores very high on MAP
and literally got a 100% on the MCAP.

Mine was the opposite, they score about 100% on their MAP tests, but the letter I got showed their scores were average on the MCAP. This is in keeping with only 30% passing. I get that it's a new test that hadn't ever been given before 2021 but seriously they could at least try to work out the bugs before using it.

They started giving the MCAP in 2019.

That is incorrect. The PARCC was given at the end of 2019, but MCAP was first administered in the fall of 2021. Its rollout was delayed because of the pandemic.

The article states it was their intent to phase out the PARCC after the end of 2019l.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maryland-to-ditch-statewide-parcc-exams-in-favor-of-homegrown-test/2018/09/13/0cce74f2-b2c6-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html

Maryland students will see the last of the state’s PARCC exams — named for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career — during spring 2019. By that fall, PARCC will be replaced by new standardized tests.

Yes, I have the PARCC card for the Spring of 2019 too. MCAP was supposed to start the following year but was delayed because of the pandemic.

My kid got 5's on their 2019 PARCCs and 99% on both MAPs. When they took the MCAP last fall for the first time, their MAPs were still at 99% but this new test the state cooked up they got an average score. I'd believe it if their MAP had gone down too but seems more like they might've been better off just sticking with the PARCC which is a national test. Not sure why they feel the need to develop their own test. It kind of reminds me of the same arrogance that led to C2.0.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

That was PARCC.

It says right at the top: MCAP Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

That was PARCC.

It says right at the top: MCAP Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program

And I have a bunch of emails from our school in March through May 2019 referring to MCAP testing dates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.

MCAP tests intelligence, MAP tests exposure. Sorry.

That’s … completely untrue.

Where's that "Damn you!, Poe's Law" poster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

That was PARCC.

It says right at the top: MCAP Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program

It was really still just the PARCC at that time. PARCC scores were on a scale of 1-5. When they switched to their proprietary test in the fall of 2021, I think the scale was 1-3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have the paper MCAP reports both my kids received from the Spring 2019 testing.

That was PARCC.

It says right at the top: MCAP Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program

And I have a bunch of emails from our school in March through May 2019 referring to MCAP testing dates.

They rebranded the PARCC the MCAP in anticipation of the change but didn't start using the new test until the fall of 2021. As an earlier poster noted, the scoring was different on the new test.