Iready, MAP test results- when do parents see them?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are a few weeks from Thanksgiving at this point. If they scored poorly on something it would be challenging to get a tutor and program into place for the holidays! They have already wasted 2 months.

Don't be a drama queen. The MAP score is not going to be the reason your child needs a tutor. If your child needs a tutor, the homework and tests you've received back would already be indicating that and the teacher would probably have already reached out.

You must not work with kids with special needs then.

What is the MAP score going to tell you about your special needs child that you can't get anywhere else? Please share.

It tells you what to fill in the gap to get your kid up to par. For example, they may be average in all the categories, but low average in one. Then you could work on that with your child in the first 3 months of back to school before Thanksgiving hits. Now they are prepared more fully for the winter MAP, etc. When you wait to read the results and act, the low performer is set back further on that particular strand whether it’s geometry, estimation, computation, etc. If assessments are not supposed to be used, then they are a waste of time and money. Sitting on results has no benefit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just received a copy of the MAP and VALLS at the parent teacher conference. No idea why they can’t send the scores out or post them online.

This is so inefficient, you don't even have time to review it at home BEFORE the meeting to prepare questions!

[Anonymous]

Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

Sure, I’ll try. First, the testing window needs to end. While your child may have taken a test on Sept 20, the window might not close until a date in October. The VALLSS window was supposed to close on October 6, but there were several extensions because it is an assessment that is administered one-on-one. The extensions lasted until last week.

Second, the tests are not generated by FCPS. The iReady and MAP are assessments that are given all across the country. They use information from all students taking it and tell you what percentile your child scored as compared to all the students at that grade level across the country (or state in the case of the VALLSS). I would add that the MAP is a new assessment to FCPS, and we (teachers and administrators) are learning how to read it and use the information to make intervention decisions. Some teachers decided to share the family report as they learned about how to access it MAP.

I have no specific knowledge of this but my guess is that FCPS wanted to put everything out at the same time even though some assessments were completed earlier and might be ready to be shared.

I know that everyone wants instant results. It’s just not always possible. In a few years, your child will take an SAT and have to wait at least two weeks to find out how they did. They may take a multiple-choice AP exam in early May and will have to wait until July to get results. Your child will submit a college application on January 1 and have to wait until the end of March even if they were rejected at first glance. Heck, even today, in 2025, the bank puts a hold on that cashiers check I deposited and won’t let me access it all for a few days. It’s frustrating.

Finally, I recognize that you may have already had your parent teacher conference. I know many teachers have had them at my school, and that’s great. If you get the scores and have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher even if you already had a conference. My hope is that the scores confirm what your child’s teacher already knows about your child and shared in the conference.

I hope this helps some. What’s most important is that your child’s teacher is looking at your child from multiple angles and then making decisions to take them to their next step in learning. The results from these assessments are not the complete picture of who your child is as a learner nor should they ever be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

This means the school purposely has held all these assessment results for an entire first quarter. It’s unacceptable. That’s not treating the parent like a team member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

Sure, I’ll try. First, the testing window needs to end. While your child may have taken a test on Sept 20, the window might not close until a date in October. The VALLSS window was supposed to close on October 6, but there were several extensions because it is an assessment that is administered one-on-one. The extensions lasted until last week.

Second, the tests are not generated by FCPS. The iReady and MAP are assessments that are given all across the country. They use information from all students taking it and tell you what percentile your child scored as compared to all the students at that grade level across the country (or state in the case of the VALLSS). I would add that the MAP is a new assessment to FCPS, and we (teachers and administrators) are learning how to read it and use the information to make intervention decisions. Some teachers decided to share the family report as they learned about how to access it MAP.

I have no specific knowledge of this but my guess is that FCPS wanted to put everything out at the same time even though some assessments were completed earlier and might be ready to be shared.

I know that everyone wants instant results. It’s just not always possible. In a few years, your child will take an SAT and have to wait at least two weeks to find out how they did. They may take a multiple-choice AP exam in early May and will have to wait until July to get results. Your child will submit a college application on January 1 and have to wait until the end of March even if they were rejected at first glance. Heck, even today, in 2025, the bank puts a hold on that cashiers check I deposited and won’t let me access it all for a few days. It’s frustrating.

Finally, I recognize that you may have already had your parent teacher conference. I know many teachers have had them at my school, and that’s great. If you get the scores and have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher even if you already had a conference. My hope is that the scores confirm what your child’s teacher already knows about your child and shared in the conference.

I hope this helps some. What’s most important is that your child’s teacher is looking at your child from multiple angles and then making decisions to take them to their next step in learning. The results from these assessments are not the complete picture of who your child is as a learner nor should they ever be.

Thank you for providing the context! I agree with the PP that this approach makes parents feel excluded from the process. As a parent, what I want to know is whether my child meets, falls short of, or exceeds grade expectations, and which areas of concern we should focus on at home. I don’t understand why I need to wait a couple of months for my child to be compared to every other child in the state or across the country. Maybe that metric is useful for setting future standards or identifying AAP students, but basic testing should simply inform me whether my child is doing well according to the current curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Our experience from the past (with no prior familiarity with the US education system and full trust in schools and teachers) went like this: the child took a test in early September. By the end of the quarter, we finally saw the results, which showed that the child was below grade. Since there was no communication from the teacher and the report cards showed 3s (which I now know is just the default), we assumed it might be “summer slide” and expected improvement as the school year continued. The winter testing results were posted in the spring, and once again, the child scored below grade expectations. This time, we grew concerned and began supplementing at home, and by the end of the school year, the child tested at grade level. With this experience, I’ve learned that I need a parallel way to monitor what’s going on in addition to what I get from the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

Sure, I’ll try. First, the testing window needs to end. While your child may have taken a test on Sept 20, the window might not close until a date in October. The VALLSS window was supposed to close on October 6, but there were several extensions because it is an assessment that is administered one-on-one. The extensions lasted until last week.

Second, the tests are not generated by FCPS. The iReady and MAP are assessments that are given all across the country. They use information from all students taking it and tell you what percentile your child scored as compared to all the students at that grade level across the country (or state in the case of the VALLSS). I would add that the MAP is a new assessment to FCPS, and we (teachers and administrators) are learning how to read it and use the information to make intervention decisions. Some teachers decided to share the family report as they learned about how to access it MAP.

I have no specific knowledge of this but my guess is that FCPS wanted to put everything out at the same time even though some assessments were completed earlier and might be ready to be shared.

I know that everyone wants instant results. It’s just not always possible. In a few years, your child will take an SAT and have to wait at least two weeks to find out how they did. They may take a multiple-choice AP exam in early May and will have to wait until July to get results. Your child will submit a college application on January 1 and have to wait until the end of March even if they were rejected at first glance. Heck, even today, in 2025, the bank puts a hold on that cashiers check I deposited and won’t let me access it all for a few days. It’s frustrating.

Finally, I recognize that you may have already had your parent teacher conference. I know many teachers have had them at my school, and that’s great. If you get the scores and have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher even if you already had a conference. My hope is that the scores confirm what your child’s teacher already knows about your child and shared in the conference.

I hope this helps some. What’s most important is that your child’s teacher is looking at your child from multiple angles and then making decisions to take them to their next step in learning. The results from these assessments are not the complete picture of who your child is as a learner nor should they ever be.

Thank you for providing the context! I agree with the PP that this approach makes parents feel excluded from the process. As a parent, what I want to know is whether my child meets, falls short of, or exceeds grade expectations, and which areas of concern we should focus on at home. I don’t understand why I need to wait a couple of months for my child to be compared to every other child in the state or across the country. Maybe that metric is useful for setting future standards or identifying AAP students, but basic testing should simply inform me whether my child is doing well according to the current curriculum.

That’s not what you’re going to get with tests like the iReady or MAP. They are SCREENERS, not assessments of how students are doing with the current curriculum. If you want to see how your child is doing “according to the current curriculum”, you would look at how your child is doing on unit tests focused on what the teacher just taught.

Do not conflate the classroom unit tests with the nationally normed screeners that look at what basic skills a student might be missing and need an intervention for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

Sure, I’ll try. First, the testing window needs to end. While your child may have taken a test on Sept 20, the window might not close until a date in October. The VALLSS window was supposed to close on October 6, but there were several extensions because it is an assessment that is administered one-on-one. The extensions lasted until last week.

Second, the tests are not generated by FCPS. The iReady and MAP are assessments that are given all across the country. They use information from all students taking it and tell you what percentile your child scored as compared to all the students at that grade level across the country (or state in the case of the VALLSS). I would add that the MAP is a new assessment to FCPS, and we (teachers and administrators) are learning how to read it and use the information to make intervention decisions. Some teachers decided to share the family report as they learned about how to access it MAP.

I have no specific knowledge of this but my guess is that FCPS wanted to put everything out at the same time even though some assessments were completed earlier and might be ready to be shared.

I know that everyone wants instant results. It’s just not always possible. In a few years, your child will take an SAT and have to wait at least two weeks to find out how they did. They may take a multiple-choice AP exam in early May and will have to wait until July to get results. Your child will submit a college application on January 1 and have to wait until the end of March even if they were rejected at first glance. Heck, even today, in 2025, the bank puts a hold on that cashiers check I deposited and won’t let me access it all for a few days. It’s frustrating.

Finally, I recognize that you may have already had your parent teacher conference. I know many teachers have had them at my school, and that’s great. If you get the scores and have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher even if you already had a conference. My hope is that the scores confirm what your child’s teacher already knows about your child and shared in the conference.

I hope this helps some. What’s most important is that your child’s teacher is looking at your child from multiple angles and then making decisions to take them to their next step in learning. The results from these assessments are not the complete picture of who your child is as a learner nor should they ever be.

Thank you for providing the context! I agree with the PP that this approach makes parents feel excluded from the process. As a parent, what I want to know is whether my child meets, falls short of, or exceeds grade expectations, and which areas of concern we should focus on at home. I don’t understand why I need to wait a couple of months for my child to be compared to every other child in the state or across the country. Maybe that metric is useful for setting future standards or identifying AAP students, but basic testing should simply inform me whether my child is doing well according to the current curriculum.

That’s not what you’re going to get with tests like the iReady or MAP. They are SCREENERS, not assessments of how students are doing with the current curriculum. If you want to see how your child is doing “according to the current curriculum”, you would look at how your child is doing on unit tests focused on what the teacher just taught.

Do not conflate the classroom unit tests with the nationally normed screeners that look at what basic skills a student might be missing and need an intervention for.

I see your point and it makes sense though the only results I received were these screeners and grade reports. May be that’s different based on grade.

[Anonymous]

There’s no reason why FCPS should hold these results in iReady and MAP for months at a time before they are released. The numbers aren’t changing. The results were immediate. Let the parents see the results. Be more transparent. They always want to say that the parents are a team with the teachers yet they don’t treat them as so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a few weeks from Thanksgiving at this point. If they scored poorly on something it would be challenging to get a tutor and program into place for the holidays! They have already wasted 2 months.

Don't be a drama queen. The MAP score is not going to be the reason your child needs a tutor. If your child needs a tutor, the homework and tests you've received back would already be indicating that and the teacher would probably have already reached out.

You must not work with kids with special needs then.

What is the MAP score going to tell you about your special needs child that you can't get anywhere else? Please share.

It tells you what to fill in the gap to get your kid up to par. For example, they may be average in all the categories, but low average in one. Then you could work on that with your child in the first 3 months of back to school before Thanksgiving hits. Now they are prepared more fully for the winter MAP, etc. When you wait to read the results and act, the low performer is set back further on that particular strand whether it’s geometry, estimation, computation, etc. If assessments are not supposed to be used, then they are a waste of time and money. Sitting on results has no benefit.

If you want to do the job of the teacher, give your kid some worksheets and assess the results. Then do all the things you think you need to do.

[Anonymous]

Errr…map score will definitely let you know if you need a tutor or intervention. They should provide these scores sooner rather than later so that plans can be set in place for students who didn’t score well on Map.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a few weeks from Thanksgiving at this point. If they scored poorly on something it would be challenging to get a tutor and program into place for the holidays! They have already wasted 2 months.

Don't be a drama queen. The MAP score is not going to be the reason your child needs a tutor. If your child needs a tutor, the homework and tests you've received back would already be indicating that and the teacher would probably have already reached out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when do teachers get this info?

24 hrs after testing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family score reports for grade 1-6 fall screening and growth assessments will be centrally distributed to families through SIS ParentVUE by October 31.

Reports will be available for VALLSS, MAP math and iReady reading. Families who do not have a ParentVUE account will receive a paper copy from the school.


As a reminder, these are screener assessments that schools use to determine which students need interventions. They are different from achievement assessments such as the SOL or ability tests such as the NGAT (the new test that replaced the CogAT and Naglieri).

-an ES principal

Dear ES principal,

Please help me understand why it takes a month or more to upload these reports when the scores are generated immediately upon completion of the test?

- a concerned parent

Sure, I’ll try. First, the testing window needs to end. While your child may have taken a test on Sept 20, the window might not close until a date in October. The VALLSS window was supposed to close on October 6, but there were several extensions because it is an assessment that is administered one-on-one. The extensions lasted until last week.

Second, the tests are not generated by FCPS. The iReady and MAP are assessments that are given all across the country. They use information from all students taking it and tell you what percentile your child scored as compared to all the students at that grade level across the country (or state in the case of the VALLSS). I would add that the MAP is a new assessment to FCPS, and we (teachers and administrators) are learning how to read it and use the information to make intervention decisions. Some teachers decided to share the family report as they learned about how to access it MAP.

I have no specific knowledge of this but my guess is that FCPS wanted to put everything out at the same time even though some assessments were completed earlier and might be ready to be shared.

I know that everyone wants instant results. It’s just not always possible. In a few years, your child will take an SAT and have to wait at least two weeks to find out how they did. They may take a multiple-choice AP exam in early May and will have to wait until July to get results. Your child will submit a college application on January 1 and have to wait until the end of March even if they were rejected at first glance. Heck, even today, in 2025, the bank puts a hold on that cashiers check I deposited and won’t let me access it all for a few days. It’s frustrating.

Finally, I recognize that you may have already had your parent teacher conference. I know many teachers have had them at my school, and that’s great. If you get the scores and have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher even if you already had a conference. My hope is that the scores confirm what your child’s teacher already knows about your child and shared in the conference.

I hope this helps some. What’s most important is that your child’s teacher is looking at your child from multiple angles and then making decisions to take them to their next step in learning. The results from these assessments are not the complete picture of who your child is as a learner nor should they ever be.

I hear what you’re saying, but I think the reality is that they don’t really want parents involved anymore. I literally have seen zero grades for my third grader. Not one. Now he’s an easy kid, who is super smart, so I don’t actually care. But waiting this long is just telling parents that we don’t want you involved.

The scores literally showed after my son took the MAP, so even with some adjustments due to national norming…I don’t buy that they “had to” wait this long.