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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year in 5th my kid jumped from 239 in Fall to 271 in winter. I was shocked and asked the teacher who told me there had been other large jumps too (though did also say this was an outlier).

I figured there was a bug jump in the curriculum as kid wasn’t doing any math outside of school. (Tbh, I’ve also wondered if MAP has just got easier).[/quote]

There is no jump in curriculum, and the test hadn't changed. It may be the student is maturing and taking the test more seriously. [/quote]

Look 239 in fall 5th grade is about 98 percentile. Kid was clearly taking it seriously all along.[/quote]
If they're using the MAP test for 6+ higher scores should be 10-15 points lower than the 2-5 test.[/quote]

That's the experience of some, but not all.  There is higher variation/less consistency in individual scores when going from the 2-5 test to the 6+ test.  That's part of the nature of such adaptive tests, which pitch up semi-random initial questions trying to identify a level at which a test taker starts to achieve a certain correct response rate.

The 6+ test includes subject matter that the 2-5 test never presents, and that paradigm, then, with the larger set of potential questions, introduces variation versus the 2-5 test on an individual basis.  NWEA conducts analyses and constructs the assessments accordingly to try to ensure continuity between the two versions on larger scales, like averages across a whole school or district.

The underlying probability/statistics theory on which such tests rely can't provide reasonable certainty of continuity for individuals, though.  This potential for individual discontinuity from the one test to the other is why MCPS decided to shift to use [i]either[/i] this year's fall MAP-M or last spring's. Otherwise, they would be making comparisons for the MS math magnet pool among individuals based on results for some (those in Math 5/6 taking the 6+ version) solely bound to that expected uncertainty.  I'm not saying that approach is foolproof -- there's an expectation of a high swing in score for some when moving to the 6+ test, and they might benefit -- but it offers some improvement.[/quote]

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