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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should compare to 1 year ago, not to one season ago. 230ish is what 4th grade compacted should be.
So if those scores are accurate, it shows kids who weren't accelerating at home before this year, maybe had summer learning loss,  but caught up quickly in the fall.

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Why should we be comparing to a year ago? The teacher herself was comparing their fall scores to the winter ones.[/quote]

The teacher may be focused on the impact feom her own class, and Fall to Winter or Spring to Winter, while it is not as high-fidelity a comparison as Winter to Winter, may be how she chooses to isolate her contributions from the prior-grade teacher's.  It's not [i]invalid[/i], just not [i]as reliable[/i] an indicator of a student's individual growth.

As another poster pointed out, MAP RIT scores, themselves, are reported with a confidence interval (which I'm guessing provides a 95% chance of the student's properly reflective RIT falling within that range).  Over many tests, a picture of the student's learning becomes more clear.  Ditto across many students.  Single scores for tests of this type, while also not invalid, are less reliable.[/quote]

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