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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been seeing that state guidance indicated those with a MCAP score of 4 should be accelerated. When will those scores be available for those in 3rd grade? Wouldn't we need them now to be able to advocate for class placement? I think they still have some testing dates coming up though. [/quote]

It’s pretty hard to get a 4 on mcaps. I just pulled up my kid’s most recent report. He did get a 4, and it said only 3 percent of kids in the state did. The school average was just barely a low 3 and it’s a pretty well performing school. This kid has never gotten a MAP score below 99th percentile in his entire life. [/quote]

Yup, my kid in grade 4 who is in compacted math has a 3 on MCAP Math last year, and hasn't ever gotten below a 97th pctile on MAP-M in her life, and the test report says only 5% of kids got a 4 on MCAP Math for her grade.

That's one way to reduce the percentage of MCPS kids who receive "accelerated" math-test kids in an exam that no one knows anything about, that probably isn't well tested for clarity compared to national tests like MAP, and curve the qualifying score for accelerated math to a distribution that makes it hard to excel.
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Want to know what % of students got a 4 in MCAP math in grade 7?   Just 1% last year.  I just checked my kid's score report.  And the explanation of the scores in the score report is totally useless-it rates my kid at the highest level of "distinguished or proficient" for all 3 score categories (content/reasoning/modeling).  So how exactly should my kid improve to get to the category 4 needed for accelerated math?[/quote]

That's insane--to use a non-transparent state exam that only gives 1% of kids its highest score as the gatekeeper to put them in accelerated math means that they're planning on using MCAP to deny kids any meaningful math acceleration.[/quote]

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