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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's an absolute scale for the grades that they are testing. In MCPS, the one my kid takes is for grades 3-5, but I think 2nd graders in some districts take it. In any case, when a kid moves from 5th to 6th grade and takes a new MAP, the scores typically go down.[/quote]

This was not my kids' experience between fifth and sixth. It looks like the same scale.[/quote]

It looks like the same scale, but it's not. It's a different test for K-2, 3-5, and 6-8, and many kids hit the top of the scale in 2nd and 5th and then go down for the subsequent test. [/quote]

You are correct except it’s not 6-8. The test is called MAP 6+ and covers topics through 12th grade math.

The test finds the score where the answers are about 50/50% correct/wrong. For a strong 5th grader there may not be enough questions to get to that ratio on MAP 3-5, so the score may be artificially high. I’ve seen proud posters that their child scored in ~290 in the 5th grade, which would be 99th percentile for 12th graders so go figure.

Also the equivalence between tests is on average on a national norm, it doesn’t tell you how accurate the correspondence is at distribution ends, likely not very good.[/quote]

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