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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5th grader scored 99th percentile in fall and improved by 3 pts. She’s learning absolutely nothing from her teacher this year so I’m not surprised. [/quote]

That’s the expected growth for a 5th grader, so she’s right on target? [/quote]

She’s supposed to be learning 5th and 6th grade math this yr so I would’ve expected more. [/quote]

But you said she’s learning nothing, so it sounds like she already knew most of the content coming in. If that’s the case, it’s going to be tough to show much growth. [/quote]

Do these tests not measure growth for AAP students? [/quote]

Several issues (a limited test ceiling, etc.) have been mentioned.

Here's what I run into: I teach 5th grade advanced math (6th grade content). Some of my kids come in with outside prep already having had the 6th grade material. I have a lot of parents who have their kids complete the Khan Academy VA 6th grade course or do tutoring for the 6th grade content during the summer.  Maybe they don't have the best or deepest mastery of it, but they've had a lot of exposure, and it's typically very recent exposure if they crammed over the summer.  So these particular kids do quite well on the fall tests. The curriculum I am required to teach is the the 6th grade material, and I have many kids who the content is completely new to. I enrich where I can, but kids with a lot of outside prep are just not going to show a ton of growth, especially in the first half of the year.

Very bright kids who just love math but who haven't done outside prep usually show quite a bit of growth (not always due to bad days,  standard error of measurement, etc.) No matter how smart you are, you aren't going to know what an exponent is, for example, unless someone has taught you or you've looked it up. The kids who are just sponges for math really get the new content deeply and quickly once they're taught. So lots of growth because they didn't get questions right on the fall test that they ace on the winter test.

I will say this is mostly based on iReady. We haven't had MAP long enough for me to see if these generalizations hold up with it.

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I have a kid who I believe is in your second group. We don't really do math enrichment at home. His score jumped 30+ points from fall to winter. The fall score wasn't bad, but the winter score is excellent. The same was true when he did Iready.[/quote]

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