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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Misalignment of MCPS-taught standards to MCAP-tested standards is my understanding.  I believe MCPS was trying to adjust, but knew that there would be numbers that appeared lower than expected until they could do so.

Some other MD school districts may have been more nimble in changing to address the MSDE-mandated standards.  Pandemic after-effects, though possibly lessening, may also persist.[/quote]

Isn’t MCAP testing Common Core standards, which is what MCPS is supposed to be teaching? -NP[/quote]

Yes, it is but MCAP unlike PARCC does a poor job at measuring that because it's an unproven test they made up.[/quote]

MCAP is PARCC with a new name and fewer questions. Same entity is writing the test. [/quote]

If it were PARCC it would be called PARCC. The fact is it's a new test that is different than PARCC.[/quote]

Nope. It’s a shorter version of PARCC. Same company writes the questions.

You just can’t accept that MCPS is doing a terrible job of educating our kids. [/quote]

That is hardly true either! Do you realize most colleges are going away from standardized tests?  I would never base anyone’s success on a single random test given blindly like this asinine test is.  The company who pushes states to use their tests are in for in it for their benefit.  Get real and take your blinders off. The test is a farce and it really upsets me it is used to judge metrics.  If the test is so great, why the discrepancy between the classroom, AP test, MAP, and other assessment results our students have?  Pearson has done a real number on monopolizing a test that does nothing to benefit the student.  [/quote]

Listen, given the 50 percent rule, a 79.5+89.5 equaling an A, and the rampant grade inflation in general in MCPS, I think the MCAP is an important data point for parents to understand how their kids are doing. I certainly trust it much more than the grades I'm seeing in ParentVue.[/quote]

The test existed before the 50% rule. [/quote]

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