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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid did terrible at the MCAP. Just average scores. She is however 99th on MAP-R. Testing and knowledge are two different things. [/quote]

Oh interesting.  I wonder how common this is?  Not this exact disparity (99th percentile MAP kid scoring low on MCAP) but just in general kids being rated as "not proficient" on MCAP despite actually being proficient...[/quote]

Teachers and administrators have raised concerns about MCAP specifically for a long time. My 99th percentile kid did very well on MCAP for two years, then tanked it one year. What was different? Not the ability (MAP scores remained consistent), and not the effort (my kid is a Hermione Granger type who would die before purposefully throwing a test). Just...a bad day. Maybe she was coming down with something. Maybe she forgot to eat lunch. I have no idea, but it ultimately meant nothing. [/quote]

Any kid can have a bad day.  And relying on just one test when selecting for something meaningful is dangerous.  Which is why it’s stupid that magnet and CES selection centers only on MAP.[/quote]

But MAP is actually repeated three times during the school year. So it’s not just one test….[/quote]

Of course-but when they look at selection criteria for the magnets (for high school anyway), they only look at a single MAP test score data point-not the kid’s MAP history over time.  Any kid can have an unusually good or a bad day.  [/quote]

No, they look at 7th and 8th grades.[/quote]

For the high school magnets they do not.  They look at one single MAP test data point 7th grade spring or 8th grade fall.  For CES, I have no idea.[/quote]

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