My 12yo DD is currently in 7th grade at a private gifted school. The school says her NWEA math scores are not showing much improvement because she hit high levels early and she has continued to take the test twice a year and now there are few test questions left for her to take that are not extremely difficult, so this is keeping her score artificially low.
My big questions:
Anyone heard of a ceiling effect like this?
Does anyone know how I can have my DD take the NWEA MAP test on a new profile, so it won't start her where she left off? That should prove/disprove the school's explanation.
Anyone have another explanation?
In third grade DD scored a 255 in math (98th percentile for 5th graders (2011 norms)). In 7th grade, her scores are now only 262 (only 96th percentile in her grade).
The average score for her grade has risen from 228 to 260+ during this time, but there are only 4 kids in a higher math group than she.
We need her to score 99th percentile in math for a high school application... and I know she has learned a whole lot of math since 3rd grade!
Thanks.
