Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 16:22     Subject: Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am only wanting a practice test bc DS is autistic and a practice would be helpful

There are no practice tests. My son is on the spectrum with low processing speed and he had extra time thanks to his IEP. That's all.


No he did not. The MAP is untimed.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 08:45     Subject: Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It will be administered the first full day back. Where can we get practice tests?

Relax. There isn't anything to practice. It's an adaptive assessment to see where your kid is at currently. They take it 3 times each year.


Push your kid to read challenging texts and they will do great on MAP-R. I teach in a magnet but I still have students who never read outside of school.

It’s worth practicing for math. Just google Map-M practice.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 08:44     Subject: Re:Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Literally the only MAPs that ever matter are the one that is counted for the CES lottery and the one that is counted for the middle school criterion-based magnet lottery. The rest are informative but not determinative. Like these upcoming ones. Just bail and chill.


the most important map is fall 8th grade - admission to HS magnets. not a lottery.


informative but not determinative


nobody said it was determinative but that it is a more important score than maps for CES and middle school lotteries. at least this is not a lottery.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 08:31     Subject: Re:Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Literally the only MAPs that ever matter are the one that is counted for the CES lottery and the one that is counted for the middle school criterion-based magnet lottery. The rest are informative but not determinative. Like these upcoming ones. Just bail and chill.


the most important map is fall 8th grade - admission to HS magnets. not a lottery.


informative but not determinative
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 08:24     Subject: Re:Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:Literally the only MAPs that ever matter are the one that is counted for the CES lottery and the one that is counted for the middle school criterion-based magnet lottery. The rest are informative but not determinative. Like these upcoming ones. Just bail and chill.


the most important map is fall 8th grade - admission to HS magnets. not a lottery.
Anonymous
Post 01/06/2025 00:20     Subject: Snow days impact on MAP tests
Anonymous wrote:3rd grade winter map-m is also what is used to determine if a child is placed in compacted math.

My child was supposed to have Map-r tomorrow and Map-M on Tuesday but we got an email that both are being moved to next week.


I believe it has been the 3rd grade spring MAP-M that is used for the central identification recommendation for Math 4/5, with schools fine tuning that (or not, at their discretion) at the end of the school year or over the summer.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2025 22:18     Subject: Snow days impact on MAP tests
3rd grade winter map-m is also what is used to determine if a child is placed in compacted math.

My child was supposed to have Map-r tomorrow and Map-M on Tuesday but we got an email that both are being moved to next week.
Anonymous
Post 01/05/2025 22:16     Subject: Snow days impact on MAP tests
3rd grade winter MAP-R has been used as the test gate for the CES lottery for a few years.