Originally Posted by master of none
Originally Posted by KADmom
I met with my middle school's principal to discuss some matters, one of which was my concern over our district's lack of attention to, and data collection on, the growth of the gifted population. She told me one of the reasons is that the gifted population is one of the hardest groups to grow. In fact, not only do they not tend to show a lot of growth, but sometimes they even go down.


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?

This seems to be how our district uses it. They still make all the kids take it 3 times per year, but they only seem to be looking for scores that fall below a certain level, because those are the students who are at risk for not passing the state-standardized testing. They might qualify for interventions. Right on the test report there is something called SIP % which is the "student's estimated % correct for all test questions aligned to grade and topic." I think this is the number that the district is most interested in (or that's what the cynical side of me says).