do parents see MAP Scores?

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Anonymous wrote:Also new to testing (from private). My kid got 258 in math and 256 in the other. I believe the top score you can get is 300. Not sure how this will chart percentage wise. And this has nothing to do with grades, just school assessment according to his counselor who told us about the tests at the beginning of the year.

There is no hard limit that any human ever reaches. It's a statistical curve.

The top math score is something like 350. Although my 7th grader scored in the 290s, there are some kids with over 300.

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Anonymous wrote: Is there a link to see how the scoring works or the scores for my kid? We are new to MCPS. She told me her math score but can't remember her English.

MAP is a national test made by NWEA. There is plenty of information on it available online.

If you just want to see percentiles, a site like this is helpful, https://sites.google.com/view/nweapercentilecalculator

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Anonymous wrote:They will be up in ParentVue in probably about a month (under documents). If you want a copy of the report, though, the teacher (or counselor) can send it to you.

They typically refuse or simply don't do it. I know I'm legally entitled to this information but didn't want to make a fuss.

Our teachers have always provided the reports, or at least the scores.

Some do some don't. Not sure why maybe it's too much work for them. I wish the county made it easier to get the detailed information so I could better help my kids. The data available in parentvue is kind of weak.

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Anonymous wrote:ParentVue

This. MAP scores aren’t secret. Look it up.

The fall MAP scores are not in ParentVue. They take quite a long time to get uploaded there.

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Anonymous wrote:They will be up in ParentVue in probably about a month (under documents). If you want a copy of the report, though, the teacher (or counselor) can send it to you.

They typically refuse or simply don't do it. I know I'm legally entitled to this information but didn't want to make a fuss.

Our teachers have always provided the reports, or at least the scores.

Some do some don't. Not sure why maybe it's too much work for them. I wish the county made it easier to get the detailed information so I could better help my kids. The data available in parentvue is kind of weak.

+1. Or had teachers at least review in PTC and talk about how they were adjusting instruction for the class, grade, or individual student based on results from MAP and other assessments.

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Anonymous wrote:Also new to testing (from private). My kid got 258 in math and 256 in the other. I believe the top score you can get is 300. Not sure how this will chart percentage wise. And this has nothing to do with grades, just school assessment according to his counselor who told us about the tests at the beginning of the year.

You can look up the percentiles to see how they track. What grade?

I have reports of a similar score. We have a 9th grader so I am guessing 80%? Obvioulsy these tests don't count personally but it is good to see how they do and good to do practice tests.

In fall math, a 256 is 93rd percentile for 9th grade.
In fall reading, a 258 is 98th percentile for 9th.

You can find the percentile tables at the end of this document: https://teach.mapnwea.org/impl/normsResearchStudy.pdf

This table is from 2020. Wouldn’t the percentile change each time based on everyone’s scores (because your percentile is how you scored relative to everyone who took the test at that time)?

They update the percentile scores every 5 years. It isn't supposed to be so much about how well a student is doing to their immediate peers, but how they are doing from year to year, where their strenghts and weakness might lie (subscores), etc.

It's intended to help identify what a teacher might focus on for that student and, maybe, to evaluate how the school system is doing as a whole. Folks spend a lot of energy worrying about it because 1) folks like to toot their own horn, especially about their kids, and 2) because MCPS uses it poorly, not reliably providing the differentiation to meet the need it evidences and placing too much emphasis on single scores when making certain placement decisions.