Throwing this in here for our MAP expert- Inky help!
Just had DS's conference yesterday and I was disappointed his math and language usage scores have gone down a couple of points. They blamed this on summer... though the kids had been in school 8 weeks when they took the test so that was a little frustrating!
One thing the teacher said was that the MAP test they use is capped at 230? He's in 3rd grade and it's not P-MAP. Is this something the school did or does that make sense normally? She also said the test is totally different from 2nd to 3rd so you can't compare scores. However, I know they didn't take P-MAP last year, they took the regular one (the one you read yourself). Does she have a clue what she's talking about?
I'm wondering how DS would ever make his growth goal of 10 points this year with a cap of 230 because his reading score was 222.
