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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious if teachers (and parents) feel like MCAP "proficient" scores actually align with what you would consider proficiency?  How often are there students who score a 2 who you feel like have a solid grasp of the material?  Do the cutoff scores for proficiency seem too stringent or are they about right?[/quote]

When the MCAP first came out, almost every school system had low proficiency rates.

I think part of the issue was that the curriculum wasn't geared towards the test.  Which personally I think is an issue itself.  Where ideally if a student has a firm foundation in something, it shouldn't matter what test they take, they should still be able to do okay in it.

Personally, more recently it seems more normal to see proficient scores among student populations.

Which is why it kind of irks me when I see people try to find excuses or reasons to explain the low proficiency levels.

It might be buried in a thread a while back, where it was pointed that MCPS trailed HCPSS in the proficiency rates in most of the subject areas.

Then some troll or something started to try to post how even Algebra isn't really necessary and it's not a good measure of student success.

At the very least the performance levels of MCAP scores should be used as an indicator of your student's knowledge of the subject area.  You can also take into account their grades, how they're doing in class, teacher's feedback, etc.  But I wouldn't necessarily disregard the score/performance level because the trend or the majority of the population have lower proficiency rates.  If you drill down to specific schools or groups, you'll see that they have at least a 60 percent proficiency rate.[/quote]

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