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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup, it becomes increasingly illogical to put some much weight on MAP as kids progress in coursework.

My kids 7th grade MAP-M score dropped 15 points between fall and spring. This is my kid who regularly gets 99 pctile on MAP-M. They said it was because a lot of the material that was covered in MAP was stuff from "long ago," and that their accelerated middle school math class is covering material that isn't covered on MAP-M. Doesn't mean that it's good that they've forgotten the older material, but it's just one reason that it's difficult to put so much weight on that test.[/quote]

If the reason for the drop is indeed forgotten stuff from long ago, I think you may have proved the opposite - (i.e) why MAP-M could be a useful data point. For a typical seventh grade kid doing MCPS accelerated math, what is this "long ago" stuff that they forgot? Addition? Subtraction? Multiplication? Division? Ratios?  Basic area/volume calculation? Factorization? ...  Considering the pace at which concepts are added in the first 5-6 years of math education, if a student is forgetting something from long back, it should raise a red flag.

(Granted stuff like this happens, but we are not talking about an advanced student doing topology forgetting some concept from precalculus that they have not used in a long time ....)[/quote]

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