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[quote=Anonymous]A few things to note (from a former school psych and current school admin who manages assessments):

1. Performance on MAP and CAPE/PARCC is generally highly correlated in math and ELA but the tests are very different. 
- The biggest difference is that MAP is un-timed and adaptive, whereas CAPE/PARCC is timed and only measures grade level standards. 
- CAPE/PARCC also includes a lot of tasks that require students to write (explaining their reasoning, etc), where MAP doesn't include any of these tasks at all. Take a look at the CAPE blueprints and how many points Type 2 and Type 3 questions are worth:  https://dc.mypearsonsupport.com/resources/blueprints/DC%20CAPE%20Math%20Sp24%20Assessment%20Design%20and%20Blueprint.FINAL.pdf

2. Because CAPE is timed, I often see really capable kids who don't finish the math units because they are working so diligently (checking their work, spending a long time on the question that requires them to type/explain reasoning). This might be what's going on with your student, but unfortunately schools can't go back and see at this point. You could absolutely talk with your child's school towards the end of the testing window this year to see if the student was able to finish their math units.

3. Depending on the school your child attends, some schools re-test their students on MAP particularly if their score is lower than the last time they took it or it doesn't show their growth. Might be worth asking just to see if your child has had instances of scoring below what you would expect but they aren't ever showed to you because they retest him.

4.  Just to de-bunk what someone else wrote earlier, OSSE doesn't make students take a test that the student didn't enroll it. The school ultimately has the choice - e.g., if an 8th grader is taking Algebra, the school can either choose for the student to take the 8th grade math CAPE test or the Algebra CAPE test. It's absolutely possible that your child didn't do as well because he took a test that wasn't aligned with the course he was enrolled in. Additionally, this wouldn't impact him on MAP because the test is adaptive and covers a variety of subjects whereas CAPE/PARCC only assesses the standards for a specific grade/subject/content (e.g., only 8th grade math, only Algebra).

Hope that helps!

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