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[quote=Anonymous]MCPS looks at grades and compares them to MCAP scores.  They wonder how can a student get an A/B in middle school math and then wonder how they are a level 1 or 2 on MCAP.  They don't seem to understand that many students know that MCAP means nothing to them (except for the few that are tied with graduation requirements), and therefore they don't put forth their best effort.  Not to mention that MCAP doesn't align with the MCPS curriculum.  So, they are now putting pressure on teachers to teach to the test (which goes against everything we have ever been taught).  Oh, by they don't offer any resources for this.  So teachers are left making their own resources. I guess the curriculum specialist who get paid big money can't do and teachers with no training on curriculum development are left to make stuff up. If they want us to teach to the test, they should provide a curriculum that aligns with MCAP.

Oh, but Pearson keeps changing the test, so MCPS needs to change the curriculum.  All of this is money in someone's pocket.

This is not to say that there isn't grade inflation, but just something else to consider.  [/quote]

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