Winter MAP

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Anonymous wrote:When did they take Winter MAP? My kids have not said they took it yet, just the Fall MAP.

It’s school-specific. My daughter is taking MAP-M on Monday and MAP-R later in the month. Her teacher shared the dates.

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What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

Yes. Via the Benchmark advance enrichment curriculum which all schools are supposed to get/have access to or via compact math (4/5 grade) and ELC curriculum that is being rolled out to schools. Some schools already have it.

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Anonymous wrote:What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

Yes. Via the Benchmark advance enrichment curriculum which all schools are supposed to get/have access to or via compact math (4/5 grade) and ELC curriculum that is being rolled out to schools. Some schools already have it.

What is the criteria for ELC eligibility?

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Anonymous wrote:When did they take Winter MAP? My kids have not said they took it yet, just the Fall MAP.

There is a testing window and schools determine when to do the testing within the testing window.

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Anonymous wrote:What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

Yes. Via the Benchmark advance enrichment curriculum which all schools are supposed to get/have access to or via compact math (4/5 grade) and ELC curriculum that is being rolled out to schools. Some schools already have it.

What is the criteria for ELC eligibility?

I think it's an A in ELA and hitting the threshold on MAP-R, which depends on the socioeconomic status of your school. Ranges from a minimum of 80th percentile on MAP-R to 95th percentile if you're in one of the schools in the wealthier parts of the county.

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Anonymous wrote:What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

Yes. Via the Benchmark advance enrichment curriculum which all schools are supposed to get/have access to or via compact math (4/5 grade) and ELC curriculum that is being rolled out to schools. Some schools already have it.

What is the criteria for ELC eligibility?

I think it's an A in ELA and hitting the threshold on MAP-R, which depends on the socioeconomic status of your school. Ranges from a minimum of 80th percentile on MAP-R to 95th percentile if you're in one of the schools in the wealthier parts of the county.

I’m pretty sure it’s 50th percentile at the low SES school that I work at. And it’s a small class. I think those of you who live/work in high SES schools are really unclear of the discrepancy. For example, my class took the Map-R test this week and the class average was under 50th percentile. On Map-M, 40% of my class falls below the 25th percentile and 80% under the 50th percentile. This is 5th grade. The curriculum does not help as it does not focus on the basics needed for these students.

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How are parents finding out MAP-R test scores so early? Teachers don't tell us unless we ask, until they get posted. They aren't posted in ParentVue yet at our school.

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Anonymous wrote:How are parents finding out MAP-R test scores so early? Teachers don't tell us unless we ask, until they get posted. They aren't posted in ParentVue yet at our school.

Kids see their score at the end of the exam.

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Correct me if I am wrong. In middle school everyone takes ‘advanced’ english? So even if a student doesn’t score high enough to get elc or other enrichment, they all end up at the same place in middle school and beyond. Correct?

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Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong. In middle school everyone takes ‘advanced’ english? So even if a student doesn’t score high enough to get elc or other enrichment, they all end up at the same place in middle school and beyond. Correct?

There is an enriched social studies class in middle school for those who score in the top 15% (locally normed) MAP.

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Anonymous wrote:Correct me if I am wrong. In middle school everyone takes ‘advanced’ english? So even if a student doesn’t score high enough to get elc or other enrichment, they all end up at the same place in middle school and beyond. Correct?

In English, yes, it's "advanced" for all. There is a series of enriched social studies classes in middle school, Historical Inquiry in Global Humanities (HIGH 6 and 7) and Historical Inquiry in American Studies 8, although according to DCUM some schools assign all of their students to those classes too.

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Anonymous wrote:MAP tests knowledge of material, not aptitude, so no, school did not make your kid dumber. If your kid is getting scores that would make them qualify for GT they are likely answering questions on the test that are well beyond the content they are doing in class (i.e. a kid who scores a 95th percentile is answering questions correctly that are grade levels above where they currently are in school). If you prepped your DC at all for the test last year by providing more advanced work and did not do that this time, then that could bring their score down. If not, all of those questions they answered correctly last year that were grade levels beyond where they were in class are now being answered correctly by a greater number of kids because they are catching up. The only way to make sure your DC continues to stay at or better than where they are currently is to teach them higher level math (again, assuming they are scoring toward the top).

No did not prep. Also this was reading not math. Kid has been reading alot through out the school year. Most likely an off day

Probably just peaked and others are now catching up. MAP-R is really important for qualification to CES if that’s of interest to you, so you’d be wise to work on reading comprehension if that’s something you’re interested in.

Do u know the criteria for ces ? What map r score is required?

Last I knew it was a lottery of the top 15% at their cluster since it's locally normed so depends on the schools SES.

Maybe 15% on average but at our school kids needed a MAP-R of I think 94 or 95th percentile to qualify for the pool. Other schools were at 80%. So the range is quite wide between the tiers.

That just stinks since my DC went from 97th to 89th. Sigh..

You can appeal but chances of getting a spot from the lottery are slim. At best you should think about using the higher scores from different testing dates to get enriched classes in 6th.
It's also possible your school has lower cut offs. In some I think it was as low as 70th percentile for map-r.

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Anonymous wrote:What if a kid is 95th percentile or higher but not identified as GT? Can they still potentially receive enrichment at their home school?

Yes. Via the Benchmark advance enrichment curriculum which all schools are supposed to get/have access to or via compact math (4/5 grade) and ELC curriculum that is being rolled out to schools. Some schools already have it.

What is the criteria for ELC eligibility?

I think it's an A in ELA and hitting the threshold on MAP-R, which depends on the socioeconomic status of your school. Ranges from a minimum of 80th percentile on MAP-R to 95th percentile if you're in one of the schools in the wealthier parts of the county.

I’m pretty sure it’s 50th percentile at the low SES school that I work at. And it’s a small class. I think those of you who live/work in high SES schools are really unclear of the discrepancy. For example, my class took the Map-R test this week and the class average was under 50th percentile. On Map-M, 40% of my class falls below the 25th percentile and 80% under the 50th percentile. This is 5th grade. The curriculum does not help as it does not focus on the basics needed for these students.

Since it only takes 60th or 70th percentile to be "gifted" and eligible for the MS magnets at some schools it's not surprising that enrichment would be offered at 50th percentile. I hope they can do more enrichment at these schools to help get these kids up to where they can be.

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Most kids go up and down. Its normal.