Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 11:47     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:I’m in shock that the test is not just pass/fail. It will be graded like a final exam that equals 20% of the final grade.

Is that being forced down by the State or was that a decision by MCPS?


What a nightmare for those students who don't test well (my son, for example). It doesn't apply to him because he's a junior, but he's done poorly on all the state assessments.

In any event, talk about teaching the test!
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 11:43     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:my guess is they are doing this way so as not to add an extra test to the year. This way there isn't both an exam written by the teacher and the state assessment. It is a way to dumb everything down.


Well, except we all know the MCAP is a notoriously bad and unproven test that the majority of students fail.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 11:42     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“Starting this school year for students in Grade 9 (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessments for biology and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in each course. A virtual parent night will be scheduled this fall to share additional information.”

My ninth grader isn’t taking government. Does this mean it’s required in 9th grade?



Both Biology and Government are required classes for graduation. When your student takes those classes the MCAP assessment for those classes will count as 20% of their grade.



So they're bringing back the silly final exams?
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 10:59     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
It looks like many school districts, including the largest ones MCPS and Baltimore, have raised serious concerns about this policy but the state has been really stubborn. Why?
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 10:59     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
my guess is they are doing this way so as not to add an extra test to the year. This way there isn't both an exam written by the teacher and the state assessment. It is a way to dumb everything down.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 10:57     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Thank you for posting. Why did they remove the English and math requirement and not the science and history one? Are there any documents that will tell us more about the debate and reasoning for all this?
Anonymous
Post 09/03/2023 09:51     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?


Maryland site said six days.


Which Maryland site said that?


Oops. Nine days.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2023/0725/COMAR13A.03.02GraduationRequirementsHighSchoolsStudents.pdf



Thank you. Reading that document, it sounds as if the State also knows the grade conversion procedure. Will they share it in advance of students taking the exams?
Anonymous
Post 09/03/2023 04:03     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?


Maryland site said six days.


Which Maryland site said that?


Oops. Nine days.

https://marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2023/0725/COMAR13A.03.02GraduationRequirementsHighSchoolsStudents.pdf

Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 20:36     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:“Starting this school year for students in Grade 9 (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessments for biology and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in each course. A virtual parent night will be scheduled this fall to share additional information.”

My ninth grader isn’t taking government. Does this mean it’s required in 9th grade?


No. It means that starting with this year’s incoming freshmen, students will see those scores factored into their final grade. This is because students have blown those tests off for over a decade.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 20:22     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“Starting this school year for students in Grade 9 (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessments for biology and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in each course. A virtual parent night will be scheduled this fall to share additional information.”

My ninth grader isn’t taking government. Does this mean it’s required in 9th grade?


No. I hope your kid has better reading comprehension than you


Do you really just get off on being nasty and mean? F you.

Also read it again, it clearly says that this will happen IN 9th grade. If they meant something else they should have worded it better.


Right this policy begins for grade 9 students.
If they had wanted to say 'all students must take the assessment in grade 9" then they would have just said that. Duh.
It clearly means that the policy of bio and gov having 20% of the course grade rely on the test will begin this year with freshman
So while the policy begins this year, sophomores and above taking bio or gov will not be under the policy.

Duh.


Duh to you. The direct quote is “for students in grade 9”. It’s unclear and you refusing to admit that makes you the idiot.


NP. "Starting this school year for students in Grade 9 (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessments for biology and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in each course."

This means that the Class of 2027 is the first class to which the new policy applies. Whichever year in school they take Bio and/or Gov, the exam will count as part of the course grade.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 19:05     Subject: What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:“Starting this school year for students in Grade 9 (Class of 2027), the Maryland Comprehensive Assessments for biology and government will count as 20 percent of the student’s final grade in each course. A virtual parent night will be scheduled this fall to share additional information.”

My ninth grader isn’t taking government. Does this mean it’s required in 9th grade?


No. I hope your kid has better reading comprehension than you


Do you really just get off on being nasty and mean? F you.

Also read it again, it clearly says that this will happen IN 9th grade. If they meant something else they should have worded it better.


Right this policy begins for grade 9 students.
If they had wanted to say 'all students must take the assessment in grade 9" then they would have just said that. Duh.
It clearly means that the policy of bio and gov having 20% of the course grade rely on the test will begin this year with freshman
So while the policy begins this year, sophomores and above taking bio or gov will not be under the policy.

Duh.


Duh to you. The direct quote is “for students in grade 9”. It’s unclear and you refusing to admit that makes you the idiot.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 08:35     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?


Maryland site said six days.


Which Maryland site said that?
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 07:52     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Anonymous wrote:Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?


Maryland site said six days.
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 06:15     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
Does this mean they’re going to find a way to get MCAP scores back in less than a year?
Anonymous
Post 09/02/2023 04:32     Subject: Re:What does this mean? 9th grade “curriculum update”
The college board has processes in place for test questions with errors and/or ambiguity. I don’t know if there’s a similar process for these tests, but I think every example needs to be reported, and if not corrected, maybe publicized?

https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/contact-us#:~:text=Test%20Error%20or%20Ambiguity&text=Report%20the%20problem%20to%20the,will%20respond%20to%20written%20inquiries.