Does MAP-M go up to 350?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son is one of them. There's a "300 club" at TPMS, and all of them are in math varsity team. They don't prep for MAP-M test at all, but take the test seriously. There are also other kids in other MSs scored in lower 300s.

They do prep. Some said for at least a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is one of them. There's a "300 club" at TPMS, and all of them are in math varsity team. They don't prep for MAP-M test at all, but take the test seriously. There are also other kids in other MSs scored in lower 300s.

They do prep. Some said for at least a month.

Math Varsity Team is a form of prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is one of them. There's a "300 club" at TPMS, and all of them are in math varsity team. They don't prep for MAP-M test at all, but take the test seriously. There are also other kids in other MSs scored in lower 300s.

They do prep. Some said for at least a month.

Math Varsity Team is a form of prep.

The types of problems they practice aren't on the map test.

[Anonymous]

My son with 268 in 8th grade non magnet says he has the lowest score in his math class apparently kids share scores with each other. We are new to MCPS this year and he is really upset. He is in the Hon Algebra 2 cohort with 10 other kids. How are people prepping for MAP M? Isn’t it an adaptive test where questions change from person to person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son is one of them. There's a "300 club" at TPMS, and all of them are in math varsity team. They don't prep for MAP-M test at all, but take the test seriously. There are also other kids in other MSs scored in lower 300s.

They do prep. Some said for at least a month.

Math Varsity Team is a form of prep.

The types of problems they practice aren't on the map test.

It’s still high level math that they can use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son with 268 in 8th grade non magnet says he has the lowest score in his math class apparently kids share scores with each other. We are new to MCPS this year and he is really upset. He is in the Hon Algebra 2 cohort with 10 other kids. How are people prepping for MAP M? Isn’t it an adaptive test where questions change from person to person?

My magnet kid had 272 at end of 7th grade and was one of the highest, aside from the kids who were already taking geometry. 268 is great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My son with 268 in 8th grade non magnet says he has the lowest score in his math class apparently kids share scores with each other. We are new to MCPS this year and he is really upset. He is in the Hon Algebra 2 cohort with 10 other kids. How are people prepping for MAP M? Isn’t it an adaptive test where questions change from person to person?

My magnet kid had 272 at end of 7th grade and was one of the highest, aside from the kids who were already taking geometry. 268 is great.

Oh hang on, I just realized you said algebra 2 in 8th grade. If he’s in algebra 2 he’s covered a lot more than if he want accelerated so much. It’s not surprising that the other kids are further ahead than if they were in geometry in 8th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son with 268 in 8th grade non magnet says he has the lowest score in his math class apparently kids share scores with each other. We are new to MCPS this year and he is really upset. He is in the Hon Algebra 2 cohort with 10 other kids. How are people prepping for MAP M? Isn’t it an adaptive test where questions change from person to person?

He must have an amazing math class because that's a respectable score that comes in at the 98.9%.

[Anonymous]

This is a little out-of-date, but here is a very interesting report that MCPS put out in 2016 to compare MAP scores with PARCC scores as an assessment of college readiness. The interesting part is if you look at the right-hand sides of Tables 3-6, which list mean, minimum, and maximum scores for the fall and spring MAP-M and MAP-R tests for MCPS students in 2014-15 in grades 3-8 (~10,000 students per grade). I like to look at this report sometimes when claims are made on DCUM that seem unrealistic, to see what the real range of scores (especially the maxima) were in MCPS not that long ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a little out-of-date, but here is a very interesting report that MCPS put out in 2016 to compare MAP scores with PARCC scores as an assessment of college readiness. The interesting part is if you look at the right-hand sides of Tables 3-6, which list mean, minimum, and maximum scores for the fall and spring MAP-M and MAP-R tests for MCPS students in 2014-15 in grades 3-8 (~10,000 students per grade). I like to look at this report sometimes when claims are made on DCUM that seem unrealistic, to see what the real range of scores (especially the maxima) were in MCPS not that long ago.

I'm skeptical of many of these claims posted here, and this helps put things in the proper perspective. thx!

[Anonymous]

^^^Why on earth would anyone inflate their scores on an anonymous board?!? Your skepticism is misplaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^Why on earth would anyone inflate their scores on an anonymous board?!? Your skepticism is misplaced.

Additionally, no need to be skeptical, when it is plain to see in black and white in Tables 2-6 that the maximum end of the MAP-Ms are 314 and 324, fall and spring, respectively. And, that was for the 2015-16 school year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grade TPMS magnet kid says that a bunch of kids in the magnet got scores in the low 300s. These are kids that apparently prepped for the test for about a month (!). I thought that 300 was the top score. Does it go really go above 300?

What’s the use of such high score

There is none.

Weird this test has no relevance other than to determine if kids are making steady growth. Are they worried they won’t make it into a high school magnet program if they don’t get a high score? Can’t imagine spending a month in middle school school studying for a test like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grade TPMS magnet kid says that a bunch of kids in the magnet got scores in the low 300s. These are kids that apparently prepped for the test for about a month (!). I thought that 300 was the top score. Does it go really go above 300?

What’s the use of such high score

There is none.

Weird this test has no relevance other than to determine if kids are making steady growth. Are they worried they won’t make it into a high school magnet program if they don’t get a high score? Can’t imagine spending a month in middle school school studying for a test like this.

It is not relevant to real life (just like SATs, etc al.) but schools such as MCPS and many other schools nationwide (even American schools abroad) use MAPs to guage progress, yes, but also to gatekeep access to enrichment, which for some families is the only leg-up/enrichment they will receive in secondary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grade TPMS magnet kid says that a bunch of kids in the magnet got scores in the low 300s. These are kids that apparently prepped for the test for about a month (!). I thought that 300 was the top score. Does it go really go above 300?

What’s the use of such high score

There is none.

Weird this test has no relevance other than to determine if kids are making steady growth. Are they worried they won’t make it into a high school magnet program if they don’t get a high score? Can’t imagine spending a month in middle school school studying for a test like this.

My understanding is AEI uses percentiles not raw scores for selection since NWEA never indented to distinguish students like that. So my best guess is friendly competition among a few mathletes.