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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's really weird.

There's no real "finish" to a MAP test, it just ends when the student starts missing enough questions. The questions get progressively harder, and when they start missing a certain number of them, the test ends. The idea is that kids will keep going until they reach the limit of their current abilities.

Some kids might answer a total of 40 questions, some 53, some 70, depending on how many they answered correctly before they started getting them wrong. It's not timed because some kids can keep going much longer than others, even if they're all answering the questions at the same speed. You actually _want_ them to keep going as long as they can, because it means they're still getting the questions right. 
 
In fact, if you look at the NWEA's own statistics, the mean test times last year for "high-performing" 4th and 5th graders on MAP-M were over 80 minutes: https://www.nwea.org/content/uploads/2018/08/Average-MAP-Growth-Test-Durations.pdf. 
Among all kids, the mean was closer to an hour.

So MCPS would be shooting themselves in the foot if they limited kids to an hour. Why on earth would you invalidate the scores of any student who took longer than an hour, when statistically those are likely to be your highest scores?

Even if it wasn't really an MCPS policy, but something the teachers just made up because they didn't want the bother of proctoring another day of testing, it would be a really dumb thing to do. The inevitable low scores would reflect badly on the school and on the teachers.

Unless someone else here knows something I don't, I think I'd follow up and keep pressing for more details. I get that they might want to encourage your son to work more quickly, because it could be an issue on other types of standardized tests, but it makes zero sense to set a hard time limit on MAP. [/quote]

That's very well explained. You should include that in your complaint, to show the Principal and the teacher that they shouldn't mess with you. 
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+1  Map-M tests are supposed to be untimed.  End of story.[/quote]

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