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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my dd was younger, she was stuck on a reading level for a while and I asked the teacher about it.  She said she was good at oral reading and discussing the book, but her reading level was constrained by her writing-- the measure for reading level was based on a written response, and her responses weren't meeting the expectation in various ways (I think it was about not writing enough details, etc though I don't recall exactly).  So it could be that the skills tested in MAP-R aren't the same as the skills for reading-level assignment.  It is a good question to ask at the November conferences, along with what skills you can work on to move her up.[/quote]

Nebulous excuses are often given to avoid changes which could prove inconvenient. Sure, it's possible, but if they're suggesting this, I'd ask for concrete examples to illustrate before accepting it.

My impression is the MAP-R is a more comprehensive, consistent and reliable metric than the mclass which is typically knocked out in under 10-15 minutes by an often harried classroom teacher. It does a much better job measuring a child's comprehension than answering 1 or 2 questions from a single story.[/quote]

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