Common MAP scores for UMC kid grade 3-5 at a “good school”. Private or public

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What is the range of MAP scores at a high performing school in one classroom? In 3rd grade or 5th grade? Is everyone mostly around the 90th percentile at a high performing school? District grade level mean or norm grade level mean is for the whole district and everyone who takes the test for example in mcps. What is helpful is how the child scores among his peers, so you can figure out the performance relative to his class and not just the district. If my child is 75th percentile while the entire class is 90th then you know there might be a problem

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My kid is 99%, at least 40 pts more compared to district grade level or norm grade level. I believe my kid is one of the high performing one & an exception, and the school he is currently at or I would say overall school district relatively is not a good fit for him. We are stuck in this school district (Montgomery county) for many reasons, and my friends say that I should relocate to New York or New Jersey.

There is nothing that we can do, but my kid is so happy every day going to school. I try to challenge him with other things outside of school curriculum, like foreign language and other hobbies.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 99%, at least 40 pts more compared to district grade level or norm grade level. I believe my kid is one of the high performing one & an exception, and the school he is currently at or I would say overall school district relatively is not a good fit for him. We are stuck in this school district (Montgomery county) for many reasons, and my friends say that I should relocate to New York or New Jersey.

There is nothing that we can do, but my kid is so happy every day going to school. I try to challenge him with other things outside of school curriculum, like foreign language and other hobbies.

My kid is also 99% (4th grade) and I had to laugh at the report the other day that had his goal score, or whatever it's called, for spring 8 points lower than his current score in Reading.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is 99%, at least 40 pts more compared to district grade level or norm grade level. I believe my kid is one of the high performing one & an exception, and the school he is currently at or I would say overall school district relatively is not a good fit for him. We are stuck in this school district (Montgomery county) for many reasons, and my friends say that I should relocate to New York or New Jersey.

There is nothing that we can do, but my kid is so happy every day going to school. I try to challenge him with other things outside of school curriculum, like foreign language and other hobbies.

My kid is also 99% (4th grade) and I had to laugh at the report the other day that had his goal score, or whatever it's called, for spring 8 points lower than his current score in Reading.

Of course everyone here is 99th percentile. So which is why we want to hear from the teachers. Teachers please, at a w feeder school, is everyone really 99th percentile? My kid is not a 99 percentile at a w feeder school. So I would like to know if he is an anomaly?

[Anonymous]

A second MAP question: what do teachers make of a kid that takes almost double the time as others to finish the MAP test or any other test? Like 50-60 minutes, not 30-35 minutes?
Should we be worried? Why are t they saying anything?

[Anonymous]

My kid was all over the place with Map testing this fall. Some of the factors impacting his score was his not completing all the questions and generally moving too fast. When told to slow down on subsequent tests his score jumped significantly. All his scores this fall however were considerably lower than last year (the three times they took it) so the way I am interpreting it is we need to learn some testing etiquette. I've also been looking on line for examples of MAP test questions to get a better sense of the questions asked in the three domains. Some things he didn't know. For example in second grade our school had not taught angles, 90 degrees, greater than 90 and less than 90, yet that was a question on a second grade MAP quiz.

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Do your schools hand back unit tests to go over?

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In W feeder. Kid 1 has always been 99 percentile across the board and is now in a HS magnet doing very well. Kid 2 is an average student, scoring 80 percentile in both. I’d say he’s probably right in the middle of his cohort, a little lower in math.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentiles are common around here? Arlington, Bethesda, private schools that do MAP not ERBs.

Trying to understand if we have a bad fit school, curriculum, teacher, or need LD testing. School isn’t saying anything.

In general, for engaged smart kids, I’d try to suss out weaknesses for anything under 75 or 80 percentile IF you sense the IQ or brightness is higher than what’s being demonstrated on in class and MAP tests.

Could be anxiety or lack of time management or actual learning disability. Or just needs some extra help for a quarter or two.

Work with the teacher or a tutor to find out before the middle school workload increases. Also find out from your kid what the teacher is saying. Or you!
If they are saying Whatever it’s a test, just do your best No big deal… and your kid takes that literally, they might really blow off several questions or give up, since “it doesn’t matter for anything.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid was all over the place with Map testing this fall. Some of the factors impacting his score was his not completing all the questions and generally moving too fast. When told to slow down on subsequent tests his score jumped significantly. All his scores this fall however were considerably lower than last year (the three times they took it) so the way I am interpreting it is we need to learn some testing etiquette. I've also been looking on line for examples of MAP test questions to get a better sense of the questions asked in the three domains. Some things he didn't know. For example in second grade our school had not taught angles, 90 degrees, greater than 90 and less than 90, yet that was a question on a second grade MAP quiz.

I think you will want to educate yourself about MAP testing. It is an adaptive test. If your child answers a question correctly, the next question will move on to harder material. Inevitably, your child will be presented with material they haven’t yet learned. That’s what MAP testing is trying to determine.

I have found that test prep-online.com is a good resource for MAP practice questions.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was all over the place with Map testing this fall. Some of the factors impacting his score was his not completing all the questions and generally moving too fast. When told to slow down on subsequent tests his score jumped significantly. All his scores this fall however were considerably lower than last year (the three times they took it) so the way I am interpreting it is we need to learn some testing etiquette. I've also been looking on line for examples of MAP test questions to get a better sense of the questions asked in the three domains. Some things he didn't know. For example in second grade our school had not taught angles, 90 degrees, greater than 90 and less than 90, yet that was a question on a second grade MAP quiz.

I think you will want to educate yourself about MAP testing. It is an adaptive test. If your child answers a question correctly, the next question will move on to harder material. Inevitably, your child will be presented with material they haven’t yet learned. That’s what MAP testing is trying to determine.

I have found that test prep-online.com is a good resource for MAP practice questions.

How much time does a student get per map test and is that recorded anywhere- how long each student took to finish the map?
What’s the usual time a student takes X how long does a 90-99% scorer take versus a 60-70% stratum scorer?