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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]

The test is garbage. They will have you read a passage and answer a multiple choice question about what the character was thinking or feeling when he/she said a particular comment in the passage. But the quoted comment isn’t specific and at least 2, sometimes 3 of the 4 choices could be plausible answers (with one obvious option that is incorrect). So bright students can rack up errors because the test is confusing and many of the correct answers would actually be a matter of opinion, not fact. Students are given different versions of the test at random (it’s not adaptive like the MAP) and some tests have more questions than others (ex. 14 vs 21). So if a student answers incorrectly, it can have a larger or smaller impact on the score depending on which version the student happened to get. I have no idea why a mostly multiple choice test takes half a year to score. It takes hours and hours of time that could be used for instruction but is instead devoted to a flawed test, whose results don’t even get used by mcps because by the time they are returned are old news. [/quote]

Amen[/quote]

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