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[quote=Anonymous]They “locally norm” the scores. What that means is that they separate out schools into 3-5 different groups based on the FARMS rate at the school. They take the students in each group and recalculate all of the scores against those peers to find the top 15 plus percentile  students. What this means is that if you go to a school with very few FARMS students, there are lots of kids with very high scores and the kids in the top 15 percent usually have MAP scores in the 99/98/97/96 percentiles. Kids with scores lower than that do not meet the criteria. In schools with high FARMS rates, they recalculate those scores against those peers and kids whose initial score was in the 70th percentile in some years are among the top 15 percent of students and get into the pool.

The intent behind local norming research was to find “diamond in the rough” students at higher FARMS schools and add them to the mix. It was NEVER intended by researchers to eliminate access for non FARMS kids by norming their score down. MCPS misunderstood the research and also has institutional priorities related to proportionality so they use the algorithm against kids.

At our middle school, they review the data to include kids like yours in the enriched courses but you may need to reach out to advocate. [/quote]

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