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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]4th-grade teacher here. Observing the kids taking the MCAP earlier this year was a frustrating experience. They were taking the grade-level test that was inclusive of all material that we are teaching this year. For a kid to have met expectations or exceeded, they would have needed to learn the grade-level curriculum outside of school. If a child is reliant on school instruction (the great majority), there would be no way to be proficient in the material prior to being taught it. I don't understand why this wasn't explained to parents. MAP-M is a much better indicator of where your child is at now.

Reading is a lot easier to fake prior to instruction as kids can have comprehension of above-grade-level texts without needing direct instruction. [/quote]

Thank you so much for your insights.  I have a 4th-grader, though, and the report says that what was administered was the 3rd grade test.  Was that the same at all schools?  I was especially concerned because DC is in math 4/5 and doing fine, so I would not have expected the very low score that emerged (!).[/quote]

I can't tell you what it was called as I don't remember, but looking around, every single question asked of the children was on grade level 4th grade. For example, knowing how to multiply large numbers, find equivalent fractions, divide numbers, etc... It was not covering 3rd-grade material as taught in Eureka. It will be interesting to see what the end of the year test entails.[/quote]

The documentation we received said that for each of the levels the fourth grade work included fractions which I thought wasn’t taught in 3rd grade? My kid learned equivalent fractions back in first grade at a DC charter school but MCPS has been multiple grade levels behind.[/quote]

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