MCAP scores

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS: We have other data we use instead
State: you still have to test your students

MCPs required to administer the tests. They probably don't think it's useful data that actually helps assist a student in a classroom. Schools give up 4+ days of school for these state mandated tests.

This is useful background to understand the lack of coherence between MCPS and Maryland state testing policy.

Still, if the State gives MCPS the testing data in September, why do we have to wait seven months to receive it as parents? MCPS isn't mailing it from Antaractica and it's perfectly possible for MCPS to upload it in ParentVue.

+1 instead of licking icky envelopes, scan, baby, scan? Or does MCPS receive electronic copies of the reports and they are printing them out and mailing reports to schools (and in prior years also directly sending them to families 8 months later)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:13 forgot to say MCPS doesn't want parents to see how "bad" their kid performed or how their kid's school performed. Do they think parents won't care nine months later when parents finally receive the previous year's results?

Ding, ding, ding. I think you've picked up on the real reason behind the delay!

And yes, receiving the results a year later ABSOLUTELY dulls the impact of the results!

Sincere question not trying to be a troll. What are the results/scores useful for?

[Anonymous]

My kids Elementary school had a pep rally and the school counselor went into the classroom to talk about to prepare (sleep, practice modules, etc). The school was decorated in positive test taking mantras. All this for what?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fall.

Such a ridiculous lag. My kids spent at least 4 full class days on MCAP testing this spring and it amazes me that MCPS can’t get the scores back to 5 months plus by which time the data are stale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:13 forgot to say MCPS doesn't want parents to see how "bad" their kid performed or how their kid's school performed. Do they think parents won't care nine months later when parents finally receive the previous year's results?

Ding, ding, ding. I think you've picked up on the real reason behind the delay!

And yes, receiving the results a year later ABSOLUTELY dulls the impact of the results!

Sincere question not trying to be a troll. What are the results/scores useful for?

Yeah, my kid just took this for the first time in the spring of 3rd grade, but is this really that different than the MAP results we get every few months? If your kid is behind you're going to know that already, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:13 forgot to say MCPS doesn't want parents to see how "bad" their kid performed or how their kid's school performed. Do they think parents won't care nine months later when parents finally receive the previous year's results?

Ding, ding, ding. I think you've picked up on the real reason behind the delay!

And yes, receiving the results a year later ABSOLUTELY dulls the impact of the results!

Sincere question not trying to be a troll. What are the results/scores useful for?

Perhaps?: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1285742.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids Elementary school had a pep rally and the school counselor went into the classroom to talk about to prepare (sleep, practice modules, etc). The school was decorated in positive test taking mantras. All this for what?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fall.

Such a ridiculous lag. My kids spent at least 4 full class days on MCAP testing this spring and it amazes me that MCPS can’t get the scores back to 5 months plus by which time the data are stale.

"My kids Elementary school had a pep rally and the school counselor went into the classroom to talk about to prepare (sleep, practice modules, etc). The school was decorated in positive test taking mantras. All this for what?"

Re: above post, done to get kids excited for never ending years of pointless testing and optics. School does well, reflects well on Principals. District does well, they get a lollipop. Not being facetious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:13 forgot to say MCPS doesn't want parents to see how "bad" their kid performed or how their kid's school performed. Do they think parents won't care nine months later when parents finally receive the previous year's results?

Ding, ding, ding. I think you've picked up on the real reason behind the delay!

And yes, receiving the results a year later ABSOLUTELY dulls the impact of the results!

Sincere question not trying to be a troll. What are the results/scores useful for?

Presumably if the state of Maryland requires MCAP and my kid in ES has 4 days allocated to MCAP testing, someone has decided they have value. The least they could do is share their results with parents in a timely fashion (in prior years they’ve come a year after the testing date)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

If only a technological system in which McPS could electronically share grades and test scores with parents directly existed…of all the things MCPS hasnt fixed, this is among the easiest of them to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

If only a technological system in which McPS could electronically share grades and test scores with parents directly existed…of all the things MCPS hasnt fixed, this is among the easiest of them to change.

Let's not get started on tech issues The thread will be a few miles long They don't have $ now to address upgrading tho it's needed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

If only a technological system in which McPS could electronically share grades and test scores with parents directly existed…of all the things MCPS hasnt fixed, this is among the easiest of them to change.

Let's not get started on tech issues The thread will be a few miles long They don't have $ now to address upgrading tho it's needed

If Parent Vue requires "upgrading" to upload a bunch of test scores that the State of Maryland sends it, it is in truly bad shape. If it weren't for privacy considerations, any MCPS kid who knows how to scan documents could do this in a few days for SSL hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

If only a technological system in which McPS could electronically share grades and test scores with parents directly existed…of all the things MCPS hasnt fixed, this is among the easiest of them to change.

Let's not get started on tech issues The thread will be a few miles long They don't have $ now to address upgrading tho it's needed

If Parent Vue requires "upgrading" to upload a bunch of test scores that the State of Maryland sends it, it is in truly bad shape. If it weren't for privacy considerations, any MCPS kid who knows how to scan documents could do this in a few days for SSL hours.

Yep, some parents asked if parents could come help stuff envelopes at CO back when reports were sent directly from the office. Maybe each 3rd-10th grade student can scan their own report at their school's front office? That would require a good scanner. Do each schools have one? Had heard teachers don't have copy paper, how is the scanner situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state will be sending the Individual Score Reports to districts by September 12th this year: https://support.mdassessments.com/resources/training/MCAP%20Spring%202025%20Reporting%20Key%20Dates.pdf

Then it's anyone's guess how long it takes MCPS to get them out to families after that...

Does State snail mail reports to districts?
do they also send electronic copy of results to districts?

Do districts tweak results before sending to schools?

Does Central office (district) also send electronic reports to schools?

They give them access to the electronic reports earlier than they mail them. If you want your report, you can get them by emailing the testing and reporting unit. They can get you an electronic copy. The supervisor used to be Donna Blaney, but it looks like she is on detail elsewhere.

That’s ridiculous. They have the test results on September 12. It shouldn’t be a matter of interested parents emailing the central office testing units and getting their kids’ scores and the rest of the masses getting them mailed to them 6 months later when the data are totally stale.

Exactly why are parents always being required to do the work for mcps? These people were hired. The amount of work some of the ptas do, geez. Followups too now by parents? geez. No wonder some schools started sending it home with Larla. Are the reports in envelopes when they send it home? Is Larla going to compare her report with Karla on the bus ride home?

If only a technological system in which McPS could electronically share grades and test scores with parents directly existed…of all the things MCPS hasnt fixed, this is among the easiest of them to change.

Let's not get started on tech issues The thread will be a few miles long They don't have $ now to address upgrading tho it's needed

If Parent Vue requires "upgrading" to upload a bunch of test scores that the State of Maryland sends it, it is in truly bad shape. If it weren't for privacy considerations, any MCPS kid who knows how to scan documents could do this in a few days for SSL hours.

Yep, some parents asked if parents could come help stuff envelopes at CO back when reports were sent directly from the office. Maybe each 3rd-10th grade student can scan their own report at their school's front office? That would require a good scanner. Do each schools have one? Had heard teachers don't have copy paper, how is the scanner situation?

MCPS has a billion dollar budget and the central office has plenty of staff, including the testing and reporting unit . This is a stupid problem to have.