Yes, it's not MAP but something similar. And that test isn't perfect either and I have complained about wildly fluctuating scores. But it can be given in 45 minutes (or in my DD's case more like 2 hours, lol) to all the kids at the same time, it gets something that's (hopefully) at least somewhat close to the right level, and it's done. The problem is the teachers don't seem to use it to plan curriculum for specific kids anyway. They just want to see the scores go up from fall to winter and from winter to spring. Actually, I think the only reason they use it is to catch the kids who are under the 10th percentile or so, because those kids can be pulled out for intervention services.
