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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a shortcoming of MAP, although NWEA doesn’t look at it that way. You should remember MAP was designed to measure progress and identify students who aren’t meeting benchmarks.

It was never intended for finding students eligible for access to higher level math or gifted programs. And if it’s used for such the data only works when a lower cut off score is applied around 90%.

As far moving from 2-5 to 6+. It is not so much the increased difficulty of questions in 6+ that causes a dip, but the *lack* difficult questions in 2-5. High achieving kids with focus can score high on 2-5 just by answering arithmetic problems with high accuracy.  There are questions drawn from 6th and 7th grade, but a student does not necessarily need to answer these to get a score in the 99%. If they do they score jumps up, perhaps artificially so. The closer a student is to the ceiling of a test the less accurate the score.

The 6+ includes content from 3rd grade through high school algebra and geometry. Disclaimer: MAP is a norm-referenced assessment. It’s not a criterion-referenced assessment. That means you cannot use it to assess a child’s grade level. You cannot determine your 6th grader is *at* a ninth grade level from this test.

Bottom line: MAP is almost meaningless for kid in the top percentiles. It’s not designed for them. [/quote]

Take this post with a grain of salt. PP's child must have gotten a 90th percentile score. Only some of what you wrote is true. You just made up the 90th percentile. That is not at all what MAP says and what school districts that use the test say. But if it makes you feel better.[/quote]

My children have never taken the NWEA MAP.

“MAP” doesn’t say anything about what percentile to use. In fact “MAP”, or representatives from NWEA, explicitly state that MAP scores should not be used for gifted and talented selection. At all.

My 90 percentile comes from the fact that reliability of scores nearing 99% breaks down. Many school districts use MAP as a screener for further gifted testing.  Many use, for example, a threshold of 90 or 95 scores in 2 of 3 successive test administrations. [/quote]

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