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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The scores are normed for grade level and administration time (beginning, midyear, end). So using the above example, the expectation is that a student will improve their scores within the grade level proficiency range from beginning to end. The scores are normed based upon that growth. So if your student scored for example in the 8th grade proficiency range in 6th grade at the start of the year and got a 1000, then took the test at the end of the year and performed exactly the same, their score would go slightly down because students in the ranges are expected to go up between administrations. But to really score better, you have to improve your proficiency. A student who was already performing well above the grade level range is only going to become lore proficient if they are taught at the higher level skills they didn’t have. 
I would look more at the overall, if they are well above grade level they will generally be moving to algebra (algebra readiness per the test is 1030). Again, once APS starts your child in algebra they no longer take the MI. So most APS students aren’t scoring 1200 because by that level of proficiency they have already begun algebra, except in what I’d guess is a very small number of kids who are highly gifted mathematically. This is my experience at the upper elementary level with the MI as a teacher. A student can be really good at math but if they haven’t been taught, for example, PEMDAS, they won’t get many questions correct requiring knowledge of it except by chance.[/quote]

If that’s the case, are all ES teaching PEMDAS by 5th grade? I’d be really interested to see a breakdown of the MI scores by elementary school. I suspect there are fewer math geniuses than there are kids whose parents can afford tutors and outside math classes. I’d be curious to know, for instance, how many 5th graders at Carlin Springs scored over 1000 vs. how many at Tuckahoe. [/quote]

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