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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The scores are not great so as to reduce the impact of the bad scores they space out the testing and reporting so that people might forget the test even happened.[/quote]

Last year's results seemed off. One of my kids is scoring well over the 99% percentile on their MAP, a national test, but gets an average score on this new test just thrown together by the state of MD. It seems like their test may need work.[/quote]
MCAP tests intelligence, MAP tests exposure. Sorry.[/quote]

Both MAP and MCAP test knowledge gained.  The difference aeen in scores is likely due to the new version of the MCAP (MD state standardized tests; MD used to use PARCC, as did several other states,but went its own way recently) having a different curricular basis/set of concepts covered than in prior years.  The MAP tests (nongovernmental/run by NWEA & used by a number of school systems across the nation) didn't change appreciably.

It's tests like CogAT that test for ability (proxying intelligence/aptitude).  MCPS has abandoned these, and shortsightedly so; it is more likely that a student with high innate ability but in an area with fewer family supports would not have an in-school peer group to allow coverage of more material in the year, or access to outside supplementation, that would yield higher MAP/MCAP scores, while CogAT (or the like) would represent a separate means of identification not as grounded in such inequities.  Keeping the additional test, though, costs money, and, from a cynical perspective, might provide results that would make MCPS have to reconsider certain placement/curricular approaches, not to mention provide fodder for more critical parents/groups.[/quote]

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