Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has 3 MAPs per year, each in 2 subjects, plus MCAP (subjects vary by grade), plus all the curricular class tests, plus AP/IB for high school. It's a bit much.

With MCAP especially, it's non-adaptive per student and non-adaptive to the order of curriculum in classes, and the results do nothing to help teachers customize curriculum to the students, and the new test wasn't fully tested (ha!) on a sample population before being dumped on all students.

It's too bad the state won't allow the county to simply use proven national tests like MAP in place of this new and unproven MCAP nonsense. Also, reduce the MAP testing from 3 times to 2. Problem solved!

+100 I don't see why states don't just use national standards for accountability. The state test seems redundant and a massive waste of 12 hours of what otherwise would have been instruction time.

Anonymous wrote:You can't opt out?

I think some of these are replacing fianls and will count as 20% of your grade.

You can't opt out?

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has 3 MAPs per year, each in 2 subjects, plus MCAP (subjects vary by grade), plus all the curricular class tests, plus AP/IB for high school. It's a bit much.

With MCAP especially, it's non-adaptive per student and non-adaptive to the order of curriculum in classes, and the results do nothing to help teachers customize curriculum to the students, and the new test wasn't fully tested (ha!) on a sample population before being dumped on all students.

It's too bad the state won't allow the county to simply use proven national tests like MAP in place of this new and unproven MCAP nonsense. Also, reduce the MAP testing from 3 times to 2. Problem solved!

MCPS has 3 MAPs per year, each in 2 subjects, plus MCAP (subjects vary by grade), plus all the curricular class tests, plus AP/IB for high school. It's a bit much.

With MCAP especially, it's non-adaptive per student and non-adaptive to the order of curriculum in classes, and the results do nothing to help teachers customize curriculum to the students, and the new test wasn't fully tested (ha!) on a sample population before being dumped on all students.

Anonymous wrote:Why is it outrageous? When should the students make up MCAP?

Because the whole thing is stupid and they shouldn't have to make it up at all. I get that it's required by the state but they don't need to make students who are already stressed out miss more instructional time.

Anonymous wrote:NO ONE CARES.

Except an obsessed minority... of perhaps one, on DCUM. Are you the deranged posted who creates all the "I haven't received MCAP scores yet!" every month?

None of my kids mind taking MCAPs and MAPs. It's a nice change from the mind-numbingly dull pace of the usual school day!

I think we have something like six active threads on MCAP now. Maybe we can rename this forum MCAP.

It's April and I still don't have my MCAP scores!!!

NO ONE CARES.

Except an obsessed minority... of perhaps one, on DCUM. Are you the deranged posted who creates all the "I haven't received MCAP scores yet!" every month?

None of my kids mind taking MCAPs and MAPs. It's a nice change from the mind-numbingly dull pace of the usual school day!

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Anonymous wrote:How many threads are delusional parents going to make about hating or disagreeing with the MCAP? This is ridiculous

+1

I think every state has standardized tests for public schools.

No Child Left Behind required states to implement standardized testing as an accountability measure. Its successor (Every Child Can Succeed? Something like that) kept the requirement, but gave states more freedom to choose their own goals and which tests they administer to measure them.

But the bottom line is there’s a whole host of federal consequences for failing to administer some sort of standardized testing. It just sucks that Maryland has chosen a series of really bad ones.

Anonymous wrote:How many threads are delusional parents going to make about hating or disagreeing with the MCAP? This is ridiculous

+1

I think every state has standardized tests for public schools.

How many threads are delusional parents going to make about hating or disagreeing with the MCAP? This is ridiculous

Huh? Why is that outrageous?

Why is it outrageous? When should the students make up MCAP?

It's outrageous that they are pulling students from regular instruction to make up MCAP if they are sick and have to miss.