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[quote=Anonymous]One thing I haven’t seen anyone else point out…scoring in the 90% percentile on MAP doesn’t necessarily mean that a student is mastering grade level material - it just means that they scored better than 90% of the kids in their grade across the entire MAP norm referencing group (I haven’t read the MAP documentation in the past few years, but the norm group is usually tens of thousands of tests from students across the country in mostly public, but some private schools).  If you’ve read about our country’s latest 4th and 8th grade test scores on the NAEP, you know they are not good.  So scoring in the 90% just tells you that your kid is doing better than most other kids their age, but not necessarily that they are on grade level.

The PARCC is standards based.  It test specific skills (defined by the Common Core standards) that a student should know by the end of the year in the grade in which they took the test.  The Common Core standards and the original tests (PARCC and SBAC) created to test mastery of the standards have been hotly debated, so love them or hate them, but most educators agree that kids need to master these standards to be successful in higher level high school courses and in college.

If a kid is scoring a 2 or 3 on PARCC, you should dig deeper and find out why.  He could have had a bad test day, he might not have tried very hard, etc., but you should figure out why, and if there are gaps in his knowledge, work on filling them now.[/quote]

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