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

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Anonymous wrote:Even with the percentile it is hard to know what the score means

Really? There is a score for the different sub categories with a percentile next to them. It tells you how well your child is doing relative to other same grade kids.

My child's score sheet shows a score for each category, but only a percentile for the overall score. Sixth grade.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even with the percentile it is hard to know what the score means

Really? There is a score for the different sub categories with a percentile next to them. It tells you how well your child is doing relative to other same grade kids.

My child's score sheet shows a score for each category, but only a percentile for the overall score. Sixth grade.

That is what ours showed. When I looked up the percentile scores for each subcategory was the same as the overall score. I am guessing that there are very few kids who would end up with different percentiles for the subcategories.

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Does anyone know what these MAP results actually mean? My 8th grader is in Geometry and it says that’s what they were tested on… obviously it’s the beginning of the year so how much could they have possibly learned? 98th percentile means nothing if they are also testing everyone in the grade who may or may not be in Geometry? Or is it state or national test for everyone in Geometry?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what these MAP results actually mean? My 8th grader is in Geometry and it says that’s what they were tested on… obviously it’s the beginning of the year so how much could they have possibly learned? 98th percentile means nothing if they are also testing everyone in the grade who may or may not be in Geometry? Or is it state or national test for everyone in Geometry?

As I understand it, there is an 8th grade MAP and a Geometry MAP, they cover different concepts. An 8th grader in Geometry will take the same MAP as a 9th or 10th grader in Geometry. That is why the sub-sections for Geometry are Geometry specific and not more generic math concepts that you would find in a regular 8th grade math class.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what these MAP results actually mean? My 8th grader is in Geometry and it says that’s what they were tested on… obviously it’s the beginning of the year so how much could they have possibly learned? 98th percentile means nothing if they are also testing everyone in the grade who may or may not be in Geometry? Or is it state or national test for everyone in Geometry?

As a follow on, Geometry concepts are taught in spirals, so kids have been introduced to geometry through school. A kid scoring in the 98th percentile in the fall Geometry MAP should be set up to do well in the class. I am not sure if the test is based on end of year knowledge or if the test questions shift over the course of the year and move into more advanced topics.

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Our ES posted MAP scores yesterday in the Document's section in Parent SIS View.

FWIW, DD scored 84th percentile, when iReady had her at 50th percentile. DD is very happy about it lol

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Anonymous wrote:Our ES posted MAP scores yesterday in the Document's section in Parent SIS View.

FWIW, DD scored 84th percentile, when iReady had her at 50th percentile. DD is very happy about it lol

Oh this is interesting. Do others talk about these kinds of scores (and particularly percentiles & relativity) with their kids? When? How do those conversations go? Do they ask questions? Mine are still early elementary and we talk about the test right after they took it and they tell me what they thought about the questions and such. But I've never mentioned the scores to them and they have never asked.

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We would normally never discuss it with our kid but the teacher shared the scores during a student-parent-teacher conference, leading him to ask about all his test results. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Not helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:Our ES posted MAP scores yesterday in the Document's section in Parent SIS View.

FWIW, DD scored 84th percentile, when iReady had her at 50th percentile. DD is very happy about it lol

Oh this is interesting. Do others talk about these kinds of scores (and particularly percentiles & relativity) with their kids? When? How do those conversations go? Do they ask questions? Mine are still early elementary and we talk about the test right after they took it and they tell me what they thought about the questions and such. But I've never mentioned the scores to them and they have never asked.

DD is in 6th grade now and her maturity level is changing very rapidly, so we started holding brief discussions about it. Previously, we didn't really discuss standardized test scores unless she asked about them -usually that was because a classmate talked about it for instance. And yes, when she was in 3rd grade and younger, we never felt the need to even bring it up.

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Anonymous wrote:Our ES posted MAP scores yesterday in the Document's section in Parent SIS View.

FWIW, DD scored 84th percentile, when iReady had her at 50th percentile. DD is very happy about it lol

Oh this is interesting. Do others talk about these kinds of scores (and particularly percentiles & relativity) with their kids? When? How do those conversations go? Do they ask questions? Mine are still early elementary and we talk about the test right after they took it and they tell me what they thought about the questions and such. But I've never mentioned the scores to them and they have never asked.

We don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our ES posted MAP scores yesterday in the Document's section in Parent SIS View.

FWIW, DD scored 84th percentile, when iReady had her at 50th percentile. DD is very happy about it lol

Oh this is interesting. Do others talk about these kinds of scores (and particularly percentiles & relativity) with their kids? When? How do those conversations go? Do they ask questions? Mine are still early elementary and we talk about the test right after they took it and they tell me what they thought about the questions and such. But I've never mentioned the scores to them and they have never asked.

We didn't but now that DS can see his score at the end of the test, we do. Your kids can also see all their past test scores when they log into their accounts, so they can go and find their past scores and documents.