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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCCAPS runs the data collection and lottery process.  That goes for criteria-based magnets (CES, Math/Science/CS MS @ Takoma Park & Roberto Clemente, Humanities MS @ Eastern & King) as well as interest-based magnets (e.g., Middle School Magnet Consortium -- Parkland, Loiederman & Argyle).  High school consortia, too.  DCCAPS is the point of contact for information/questions, including those about individual cases where criteria may or may not have been met.

AEI and curricular offices help define criteria-based magnet programs, and they (and upper management) work with DCCAPS to identify criteria/selection methodologies (current lottery system).  The implementing schools have their own approaches to managing the curriculum and placed population.

Unless your school reported incorrect information to central for DCCAPS' use in the central identification process, they likely had nothing to do with any error.  Please consider that when communicating with them.

The only MAP scores at which one can be comfortably sure of qualification are those at/above the 99th percentile nationally, as the algorithm used to identify the locally normed 85th percentile starts with that 99th national percentile, identifies the associated RIT score and compares that to the scores of the population of students in each FARMS tranche.  If that score or higher was achieved by 15 or more percent of that population, then they adopt that as the locally normed 85th percentile.  If not, they move down one national percentile, taking [i]that[/i] RIT score and identifying whether 15 or more percent of that FARMS-tranche population achieved at least that score.  This is repeated until the condition is true, at which point that national percentile/RIT score becomes the locally normed 85th percentile for the year for that tranche.

That can mean slightly more than 15 percent of MAP scores qualify, but it also means that anyone from the same FARMS tranche assigned the same national percentile on the MAP report is treated similarly from the perspective of lottery inclusion.  It also means that nobody reported as 99th percentile is excluded for that criterion (grades or reading level may do so).

The 99th national percentile RIT scores from the 2020 norms (this will change next year with the 5-year NWEA cycle) for Fall 5th grade MAP are:

MAP-M: 244
MAP-R: 243

Of course, for higher-FARMS tranches, the 85th locally normed percentile would be expected to be at a lower RIT/national percentile.  [b]However[/b], this is not guaranteed to be the case.[/quote]

There it is, so what is guaranteed to be the case, MCPS?? Students who meet whatever "criteria" are not even placed into the pool. [/quote]

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