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However, they do not say over multiple sessions.
I think the county is more moving away from kids coming back to the test day after day for more time.  
It is different if you have 90 minutes in one sitting or 45 minutes one day, then 25 minutes the next day and 25 minutes the day after that.  Kids can't go back to finished questions so it's not looking up things they didn't know, but there is a difference in how you preform when you are fresh and when you are tired.  The test is designed to be taken in one sitting and some schools have not been administering it this way.  
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Do you have evidence of this? It would be great if there were a transparent and universal policy for MAP testing. My child takes a long time, and scores high. But he is very young still, and I would want them to let him take a break for lunch and recess, or come back the next day, or acknowledge that he doesn’t really need this constant testing. It seems cruel to make a seven year old sit through hours of testing several times a year. The school makes a big deal about the scores to the kids, so they do feel pressured to do as well as possible.[/quote]

What school makes a big deal? Mine sure doesn’t. If you don’t care, just refuse for your child to take the test. No big deal.

Most of the time it is only the tiger moms who make a big deal. [/quote]

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