Originally Posted by shifrbv
Ok, but her winter score of 221 drops her to 82%. Doesn't this mean she's not receiving the right material in class and is going the wrong way?

Based on her fall school, the appropriate placement would have been in 4th grade math *in the fall*. The second score could mean that she isn't learning anything (because she is placed inappropriately).

However, the second score could mean a lot of other things too. One year my son took the MAP in the fall and again in the spring. We were homeschooling so I knew how much progress he had made in math, and it was a lot--I mean really a lot. But his MAP score only went up two points. And his reading score actually went *down*--and I know he made a lot of progress there as well.

One of the criticisms of the MAP is that it is not as sensitive as it claims to be.