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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2024 only 42% students passed Algebra MCAP.

https://mocoshow.com/2024/08/28/mcps-schools-show-consistent-performance-in-2023-2024-mcap-results/[/quote]

While I agree that there are some issues with the MCAP test and overall passing rate of MCAP, if you look at the W schools, most of them have over 60% proficiency rates in the math state tests.

For example, Whitman 79.5%:
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/H/1/15/0427/0

Churchill 75.8%:
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/H/1/15/0602/0

Walter Johnson 65%:
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Graphs/#/ReportCards/ReportCardSchool/1/H/1/15/0424/0

So the question/issue is if you are okay that your kid is just getting by or just matching the overall trend, "Well the test has a high failure rate, so it's okay that my child didn't do okay in it."  Or should it be looked at as, "well other kids are able to pass it.  What needs to be done to have my kids be able to be raised to that level?"

Overall, I don't think it's a big deal if a student fails the MCAP test as long as they're doing okay in the class.  But there is the question if they're really getting and understanding the concepts of the class.[/quote]

It would be interesting to see the breakout for each school by EML/non-EML and FARMS/non-FARMS, preferably with a quad chart covering both, especially if it showed some normalization across schools for each category.[/quote]

Kudos to the HS math teachers! The strongest math kids in these clusters take the MCPA for Algebra and Geometry in MS.

MCAP has a few problems - (1) It is actually a hard test. The problems test multiple concepts in the same question and require additional numbers of steps in a way that students aren't necessarily prepared for during the school year; (2) the teachers do not review for it, so as OP's kid experienced, it is easy to not quite remember some stuff from early in the year; (3) it tests the entire year of content early in May, so teachers have not covered a chunk of what is tested (guessing around 15%); (4) the test is really long, and kids don't have stamina for it.  I could go on. My kid tested in 2023, and missed the proficient cut-off by 1 point. I did not require retake of Alg 1, and she has done well in Alg 2 this year.[/quote]

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