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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot pause in the middle of a question.[/quote]

Actually you can. You just don't finish it and then come back the next day and resume. In our school many students  took days to finish the test. Not that it matters one way or another, except make some students think that they are competitive when they are not.  The way many standardized tests are set up - SAT, ACT, APs -  you are supposed to be able to answer a set amount of questions in a given finite time.  [b]Many students[/b] who score high in MAP in MCPS are doing poorly on these standardized exams because they have not really mastered the content and concepts.  Perhaps we need to give all of them IEPs for life?  Being an MCPS student is a disability at times, is it not?[/quote]

Firstly, I am not sure how you determine "many students", unless you are a county administrator.  Your sampling of 5, 10, even 20 students is negligible.

Secondly, this is why the county has multiple tests.  My kid is at a highly competitive with who I am sure are highly competitive students who likely are accused of cheating the system by DCUM.  He reports that he is always the last 2-3 to finish, and even with that, he finishes in the first block of hour they provide him.  So I think you are exaggerating this entire concept of [b]many kids[/b] in the county taking DAYS to be done.[/quote]

There are always a few children that take extra time at our school and it's a mix of high flyers and children who may have LDS or slow processing. The test is designed to not be timed. It's not cheating. It's designed to measure the breadth of knowledge/mastery of a lot of different concepts and some kids work faster than others. It doesn't mean they are less smart or less good. If you're going to build a rocket ship the guy who will create the best design isn't necessarily the one who designs it the fastest.
Also, there can be significant variability in the number of questions a child gets. I think in a typical sitting there may be around 55 but DC's teacher once told me she saw a child get more than 70 or a 27% difference so it's not surprising a child with more questions may require more time. The questions also get more difficult as they go along. One child might be getting 100/2 while another child may get a question that will require a half page of calculations to complete. You cannot compare the test experience for these two children.[/quote]

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