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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

There are 30 kids in my child’s elementary school class. The only info I get are report cards and map tests and a 15 minute parent teacher conference. If your kid isn’t failing, you don’t hear much beyond that.

Sure, you do. You look at the work in hard copy and in Canvas. You talk to the kid. You watch them deal with literacy and mathematics in everyday life, and you help them learn how to interpret, compare, and calculate. You read with them and to them. You connect with other parents, your pediatrician, and others for experience and advice. You email the teacher with questions. There are _many_ ways to monitor your kid's intellectual progress. And MAP data is only the tiniest fraction of that.

You’re identifying many sources of information that are not from the school. PP was saying MAP tests are important, particularly in elementary school, because not much individualized info comes from the teacher to the parent. I think that’s accurate. You can’t bribe “look at the work in hard copy” but a smiley face stamp or a “fix this error” remark scrawled on a paper doesn’t tell you how your child is doing compared to peers. MAP shows that very clearly.

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

There are 30 kids in my child’s elementary school class. The only info I get are report cards and map tests and a 15 minute parent teacher conference. If your kid isn’t failing, you don’t hear much beyond that.

Sure, you do. You look at the work in hard copy and in Canvas. You talk to the kid. You watch them deal with literacy and mathematics in everyday life, and you help them learn how to interpret, compare, and calculate. You read with them and to them. You connect with other parents, your pediatrician, and others for experience and advice. You email the teacher with questions. There are _many_ ways to monitor your kid's intellectual progress. And MAP data is only the tiniest fraction of that.

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

There are 30 kids in my child’s elementary school class. The only info I get are report cards and map tests and a 15 minute parent teacher conference. If your kid isn’t failing, you don’t hear much beyond that.

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

We asked the teachers and they really didn't offer any clear assessment.

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

It's useful if you have concerns about your kid's performance in a particular subject-- not the only data point for that but a helpful one.

They also use them for things like selecting kids for acceleration or enrichment within the home school (in addition to whether kids are in the lottery for special programs) so some parents are interested because of that.

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Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

In my experience, teachers have been better than these tests at identifying when kids are struggling. I don’t think that’s what the MAP is meant to assess.

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

I want to know how my 1st grader is doing in math and intervene if she is struggling? They take away instructional time to do these assessments, it is normal and appropriate for parents to want the results in a timely fashion, not months later

Genuinely curious - why do you all care about MAP scores? I have an 8th grader and an 11th grader and I never paid attention and they don’t seem to either. It’s had no impact on their academic life. We never applied for special programs (we like the schools we’re zoned for), so maybe that’s why it hasn’t mattered to us but it matters to others?

Anonymous wrote:Mine did her literary today and came home with three scores - literary text, informational, and vocabulary. I can't find a breakdown of scores. How do they translate to one score?

Average them.

Mine did her literary today and came home with three scores - literary text, informational, and vocabulary. I can't find a breakdown of scores. How do they translate to one score?

Anonymous wrote:My kid has not even done the MAP winter test

Yes, that's not surprising considering that the testing window started yesterday and runs for a few weeks.

My kid has not even done the MAP winter test

Yes sure, the issue was with the Fall 2025 MAP scores is that they were posted about 6 weeks later than normal, even considering that there is a multi-week testing window.

My kid didn't finish his MAP test for Fall and the school didn't care to make him finish it.

Just a heads' up to folks that even if the MAP posting issues from this fall are fixed, the winter MAP window this year goes all the way from Dec 15 to Feb 6... meaning that if they go back to the past pattern of posting the results a couple weeks after the window closes, that would be late February, and if there are greater delays it would be later still.

So if knowing the scores sooner is important to you, you might want to consider asking your kid to memorize or write down their score and tell you (they show up on screen at the end of the test), assuming that's not the kind of thing that would make your kid feel pressured/stressed about the test....