Our district is in its second year using MAP. This year, they decided to test everyone at the beginning of the year, and anyone who tested above grade level does not test again that year. The reason is that those kids have already shown mastery of the grade level so why test them? (or teach them?)
Seems they believe that the test shows grade level mastery and nuthin else?
So anyone above the 50th percentile (or thereabouts) is consider to have mastered grade level material? What's funny about that logic is that kids at the 50th percentile have not even remotely mastered grade level material. Mastery is indicated (if a standardized test can really indicate such a thing) at around the 90th percentile.
