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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCAP is state testing and is required by the gov't. It takes a long time to get results and they are more used to reflect the school, rather than the individual student. Schools have some choice on how to administer it, but in my 5th grade, we have 2 day of science, 4 days of reading, and 2 days of math (each day of math has 2 sessions). It is insane. It is NOT helpful for teachers, but parents like to see how their kids are doing compared to the rest of the state.

MAP is an adaptive test with results immediately after finishing. We use it to see growth throughout the year. It is actually helpful for parents and teachers. It takes about 1 hour for each of the math and reading tests and can be given 2-3 times a year.

As a teacher, I wish we could just give MAP and just focus on growth of the students, but that doesn't go with NCLB. I'm not sure how the dissolution of the Education Dept will change the testing requirements, but I absolutely agree that there are way too many days being devoted to tests![/quote]

Thank you for the explanation but what MCPS is doing makes little sense. Using MCAP to judge the school fine, but it takes so much time to administer and the results come too late to inform teachers, parents or students about how to improve. You say parents want to see how their school is doing in comparison to other school, but I would guess that most parents are more interested to see how their kid is doing in a timely fashion-not to get MCAP results a year later…[/quote]

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