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[quote=Anonymous]There isn't really a grade 4 MAP-M test.  There's the ES test that is administered through 5th grade (except, now, for those in Math 5/6) and the test that starts being administered in 6th (or 5th for those taking 5/6).  From the information online (e.g., NWEA.org, the creator of the tests), the difference is that the 6th and on test includes access to questions from higher grade level content.  The tests are constructed so that scores, on average (across large numbers of test takers), offer relative continuity, but on an individual basis that doesn't necessarily hold, and unexpected swings either way might happen.

I'm not sure that MCPS's compaction of 5 & 6 interleaves content from similar modules between the grades so that some 6th grade content would have been taught at the beginning of the year (that's how AMP 6+ and 7+ are in middle school).  Even if so, the exposure to 6th grade material before administration of MAP in the fall would have been vanishingly small, and it doesn't make sense for those in 5/6 to be given the 6th-grade version then when MCPS placement decisions rely on the results.  Maybe by now, for winter MAP, it would make sense.

MCPS has put kids in this position because it is using MAP for multiple purposes, for some of which it might not be best suited, at least without some significantly different, detailed and situation-accommodating heuristic.[/quote]

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