Anonymous wrote:Are you absolutely positive your child was tested the last time MAP was administered? When my dc was in early elementary grades, there were a few times that their teachers didn’t bother to administer MAP to them because they’d scored high enough on the previous test that the teacher knew they were exceeding benchmarks. The teachers confirmed that my child wasn’t tested in the spring, but MCPS sent me test scores as though they were. They just reported the winter scores as spring scores, which made it seem like dc hadn’t made any progress.

Were those covid years? My kids have always have three test dates apart from those years.

I am not MCPS staff but I believe they use MAP scores for placement in magnet education (CES, middle school and high school programs) as well as for the compact math (accelerated math) track for kids in grade 4/5. It is not a test of giftedness, just of achievement/exposure against grade level standards. It is not used for college admissions purposes.

If your kid’s percentile is steadily dropping, it could be that he was advanced in his earlier years but now has reverted towards a performance level more similar to his peers (80 pctile isn’t bad.)

What school are you at that is doing this? Parents should be very clear o if there student is being tested or not. And the district should be clear as well because folks doing this unknowingly can skew reporting data.

Also what subject. MCPS uses Dibels for Reading in early ES.

OP- Talk to your child’s teacher. Also check their schools relative to the norm for the grade level.
https://www.nwea.org/resource-center/fact-sheet/87992/2025-MAP-Growth-norms-quick-reference_NWEA_onesheet-1.pdf/

Are you absolutely positive your child was tested the last time MAP was administered? When my dc was in early elementary grades, there were a few times that their teachers didn’t bother to administer MAP to them because they’d scored high enough on the previous test that the teacher knew they were exceeding benchmarks. The teachers confirmed that my child wasn’t tested in the spring, but MCPS sent me test scores as though they were. They just reported the winter scores as spring scores, which made it seem like dc hadn’t made any progress.

We are relatively new to MCPS; we moved from DCPS 2.5 years ago. I noticed that in the 2.5 years of MAP-M and MAP-R tests my kid’s score has gotten progressively lower percentile relative to students in the same grade taking the test. He went from 95+ percentile in both when he just started in MCPS to 90 in MAP-R and to 80 in MAP-M in the last round of MAP tests.

What is the significance of the MAP test and how is it used by schools? Do colleges see high school MAP scores? Is there any reason to put effort into studying for it?