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

[Anonymous]

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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.

They are not waiting for national data collection. That would happen much later for the company compiling data —typically a one year lag. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

Our school doesn’t have parent-teacher conferences automatically offered. You would have to put in a single request to have one. And, they are generally difficult to find a date and time for the multiple subject teachers to get together with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school doesn’t have parent-teacher conferences automatically offered. You would have to put in a single request to have one. And, they are generally difficult to find a date and time for the multiple subject teachers to get together with you.

You can request a call with your child's math teacher.

[Anonymous]

BUT FOR REAL WHEN ARE THESE SCORES COMING OUT!!!???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BUT FOR REAL WHEN ARE THESE SCORES COMING OUT!!!???

Next year ask your child to pay attention at the end of the test because the score appears on their computer screen. If you kid scores high enough, something easily to look up on the web, you don't need to worry about much. If the score is in a lower then you think is good, you have something to email the Teacher about to see if you can get the breakdowns sooner then FCPS will send them out.

[Anonymous]

I got the acore for one of my children at the parent teacher conference. The print out left a lot to be desired. It only contained the overall score and percentile. No info on the various subsections. Hopefully there will be a more detailed version in ParentVue soon.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure it’s not up to teachers or principals to delay the release of the scores, since we are all in the same boat it seems. So who to raise it with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s not up to teachers or principals to delay the release of the scores, since we are all in the same boat it seems. So who to raise it with?

Teachers and admin are told not to release the scores before FCPS releases the scores. It prevents people from complaining that some schools provide information before others. The delay is very much an FCPS thing and not an individual school thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s not up to teachers or principals to delay the release of the scores, since we are all in the same boat it seems. So who to raise it with?

Teachers and admin are told not to release the scores before FCPS releases the scores. It prevents people from complaining that some schools provide information before others. The delay is very much an FCPS thing and not an individual school thing.

Really shows how ineffective a big district can be.

[Anonymous]

iReady has finally hit ParentVue for us. Still no MAP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:iReady has finally hit ParentVue for us. Still no MAP

MAP last year was a report in the documents section and not a Score in the test section.

[Anonymous]

https://cdn.bfldr.com/LS6J0F7/as/s677f7rxj6cm37bt8npbgffp/iready-diagnostic-placement-tables

The link above will take you to the iReady tables if people are interested

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got the acore for one of my children at the parent teacher conference. The print out left a lot to be desired. It only contained the overall score and percentile. No info on the various subsections. Hopefully there will be a more detailed version in ParentVue soon.

I doubt it. In the past, I've had to call the school to ask them to send me the detailed iReady and SOL reports. I will probably do the same for MAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:iReady has finally hit ParentVue for us. Still no MAP

thank you, same here, but the iREady reports look very different from previous years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:iReady has finally hit ParentVue for us. Still no MAP

thank you, same here, but the iREady reports look very different from previous years.

The report looks to be more detailed, it isn't just the score, which is nice.