My elementary and middle schoolers have iReady and MAP scores.

Anonymous wrote:Were the scores released county wide for all grades? I have my 3rd graders map and iready. But don't have my first graders map or valls(?). Just curious if anyone else doesn't have theirs yet in parentvue?

Both my 4th and 1st grader have MAP uploaded today. Iready showed up yesterday for 4th grader but no VALLS for 1st grader yet.

Were the scores released county wide for all grades? I have my 3rd graders map and iready. But don't have my first graders map or valls(?). Just curious if anyone else doesn't have theirs yet in parentvue?

Anonymous wrote:Even with the percentile it is hard to know what the score means

Really? There is a score for the different sub categories with a percentile next to them. It tells you how well your child is doing relative to other same grade kids.

Even with the percentile it is hard to know what the score means

Ugh. I just keep getting an application error when I try to log in.

Anonymous wrote:MAP scores are up for my ES kids

Up for my 8th grader. I do appreciate that they are giving more score specific details using the document vs the old method of just giving the overall score.

Posters will be happy, the level includes a high option, so you can smile that your kid is above average.

MAP scores are up for my ES kids

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Anonymous wrote:Anything above 50th percentile is (definitionally) above average. However, 50th to 84th is within one standard deviation (I would call this section still falling within the average range, high average, but still within average). 84th-97th is two standard deviations. Percentiles and averages have to do with relativity of scores to others.

The mid or above is about how the score compares to standards identified by the testing company. Mid to above says they are meeting the standards as laid out as being on grade level (but beyond fall expectations) or above. They're not going to say on this report that your 4th grader is meeting 5th grade standards. It's just not what it's designed to do.

The score charts take scores into higher grades. My kids score puts him into 9th and 10th grade standards as an 8th grader. The test are adaptive and introduce higher grade level material for kids answering questions correctly.

Yes, but FCPS's report isn't going to say that. Also those scores don't mean that if you plopped your 8th grader into a 9th or 10th grade class they would just fit right in and be meeting all the standards.

I can just imagine all of the calls they would receive that say put my kid a year ahead of reports provided the specifics on "or above" and how almost none of them would likely be best served by grade acceleration.

None of that to say that the information available based on the specific scores is not useful indicators for teachers and families on strengths. And weaknesses. But at the same time, I think the descriptive categories are sufficient at the upper level, given that iready should not be a independent indicator of grade acceleration. But I'm super glad that they provide the actual numeric score and not just the descriptive categories.

Anonymous wrote:Anything above 50th percentile is (definitionally) above average. However, 50th to 84th is within one standard deviation (I would call this section still falling within the average range, high average, but still within average). 84th-97th is two standard deviations. Percentiles and averages have to do with relativity of scores to others.

The mid or above is about how the score compares to standards identified by the testing company. Mid to above says they are meeting the standards as laid out as being on grade level (but beyond fall expectations) or above. They're not going to say on this report that your 4th grader is meeting 5th grade standards. It's just not what it's designed to do.

The score charts take scores into higher grades. My kids score puts him into 9th and 10th grade standards as an 8th grader. The test are adaptive and introduce higher grade level material for kids answering questions correctly.

Anything above 50th percentile is (definitionally) above average. However, 50th to 84th is within one standard deviation (I would call this section still falling within the average range, high average, but still within average). 84th-97th is two standard deviations. Percentiles and averages have to do with relativity of scores to others.

The mid or above is about how the score compares to standards identified by the testing company. Mid to above says they are meeting the standards as laid out as being on grade level (but beyond fall expectations) or above. They're not going to say on this report that your 4th grader is meeting 5th grade standards. It's just not what it's designed to do.

My kids letter says “Mid or Above” and gives a percentile on it, at least for the main score. The percentile should tell you were your kid is. The link below will take you to the testing information and you can look up your kids score for their grade level as well as the component scores.

https://cdn.bfldr.com/LS6J0F7/as/s677f7rxj6cm37bt8npbgffp/iready-diagnostic-placement-tables

Even without looking at the tables, a kid that is mid to above in the fall is, by default, above average because they already know the material that is being taught this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does iready say “mid or above” ? Kid is in 98%

You must not be. The categories are defined.

The point is that they don’t want to say anymore that a kids is above average.

But the category says “above grade level”. Clearly, that’s above average. Come on!

No it says “mid or above..”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does iready say “mid or above” ? Kid is in 98%

You must not be. The categories are defined.

The point is that they don’t want to say anymore that a kids is above average.

But the category says “above grade level”. Clearly, that’s above average. Come on!

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Anonymous wrote:Why does iready say “mid or above” ? Kid is in 98%

You must not be. The categories are defined.

The point is that they don’t want to say anymore that a kids is above average.