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The chart shows RIT score percentiles vs. students who took the test in a particular grade, not students who took a particular grade's test. How is it fair if a student in Math 5/6 took the MAP-M 6+ and scored 230 due to the noted adaptive-testing variability at that switchover, but would have scored a 245 on the MAP-M that is given to students in their same grade, but in Math 5 (which we've seen -- just looking at spring scores from the prior year, which track closely to the following year's fall scores).[/quote]

That child is still above the 85th percentile however. There's no actual harm done because everything above that percentile is a lottery.

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You're forgetting the local norming that occurs.  The curoff from a low-FARMS school would fall between those numbers.

Or consider it this way: what if a student who would have gotten a 230 (92nd %ile for fall of 5th grade) from a FARMS-tranche school for which that %ile would qualify got a 220 (77th %ile) for which [i]that[/i] %ile wouldn't qualify because of the variability that seems inherent in the move to the 6+ test?

You seem to be ignoring the specifics in an effort to justify an approach that fails when it comes to those specifics.[/quote]

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