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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't really looked at the reports that are available to parents.

But two things is that the MAP is supposed to have a projected growth for every test administration for students.  ie if a student's fall score is this, then their projected score in Spring is this.  Is that viewable on the report anywhere and you can see if your child met the projected growth?

Then I think there are benchmarks for MAP but it's been a long time since I've looked at it and can't remember the details.  I don't think it's exactly this document:

https://www.nwea.org/resource-center/fact-sheet/87992/MAP-Growth-2025-norms-quick-reference_NWEA_onesheet.pdf/

But the document linked above give some guidance or an idea.

Or actually I just found an old copy of what I was talking about.  For example back the benchmarks back then was:
Grade 1 Math
Fall 169
Winter 186
Spring 179

Grade 6 Math
Fall 228
Winter 230
Spring 233

And doing further searches, this is kind of similar with different benchmark scores:
https://schooltest.org/nwea-map-scores-by-grade-level-2025-2026-new

It was linked on here:
https://www.facebook.com/nwea.map.test.scores.by.grade.level.chart/

where the first comment questioned those benchmark numbers.

But I would compare your child's score to see where it falls within range of those documents.

And honestly because I tend to keep things simple, the main thing I really look at when it comes to MAP scores is the percentiles to see where my kids are in relation to their peers, I do also make sure that their scores are more or less on an upward trend.  Four or five points down from the previous administration every once in a while isn't a big deal to me.  But I generally don't care about the benchmark scores I mentioned above.

I would be a little bit concerned if my kid's percentile dropped twenty percent and especially if it's 65 percent, although previous poster and one of the links above states that's about grade level.  There are several factors that would need to be looked at.  First of all what grade level and subject are we talking about.  Then is your child in a class that on grade level for that subject.  And did your child understand the things being taught in the class throughout the year?  And I HATE it when posters say this on DCUM but is it possible that your child just had an off day the day they took the test?[/quote]

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