FYI that winter MAP results will likely post in February or later

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

There are 30 kids in my child’s elementary school class. The only info I get are report cards and map tests and a 15 minute parent teacher conference. If your kid isn’t failing, you don’t hear much beyond that.

Sure, you do. You look at the work in hard copy and in Canvas. You talk to the kid. You watch them deal with literacy and mathematics in everyday life, and you help them learn how to interpret, compare, and calculate. You read with them and to them. You connect with other parents, your pediatrician, and others for experience and advice. You email the teacher with questions. There are _many_ ways to monitor your kid's intellectual progress. And MAP data is only the tiniest fraction of that.

+1. I have never understood why parents are clamoring to get MAP results unless their kid is receiving intervention, and even then a full conference would likely be better. We look at grades, review school work that comes home, talk to the kids about what is going on in school, continue to move them forward in reading. Yes seeing the MAP scores is informative, but it’s like supplemental evidence not the initial.

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

There are 30 kids in my child’s elementary school class. The only info I get are report cards and map tests and a 15 minute parent teacher conference. If your kid isn’t failing, you don’t hear much beyond that.

Sure, you do. You look at the work in hard copy and in Canvas. You talk to the kid. You watch them deal with literacy and mathematics in everyday life, and you help them learn how to interpret, compare, and calculate. You read with them and to them. You connect with other parents, your pediatrician, and others for experience and advice. You email the teacher with questions. There are _many_ ways to monitor your kid's intellectual progress. And MAP data is only the tiniest fraction of that.

+1. I have never understood why parents are clamoring to get MAP results unless their kid is receiving intervention, and even then a full conference would likely be better. We look at grades, review school work that comes home, talk to the kids about what is going on in school, continue to move them forward in reading. Yes seeing the MAP scores is informative, but it’s like supplemental evidence not the initial.

As a parent, the MAP is the only clear indicator of where my child is at.in 1st grade. I am not qualified to identify whether my child is on grade level based on the work they send home. I asked the teacher during the fall conference about math and they really didn't share anything concrete (they didn't share the map score). I guess I didn't think of the magic words to get them to tell me in clear terms how my child is doing.