Why in the world is the teacher taking the word of a student on a test score? I could just say I got a perfect score, and have nothing close to it… the test scores should be calculated and saved somewhere else, or the teacher responsible for checking the actual score. This sounds like complete incompetence on the teacher's part...
The test is computer-adaptive, so how in the world doesn't the school computer or NWEA have a record of ALL of the testing??? Their answer doesn't make any sense.
This is my thought as well. I don't understand why the student's are writing down their scores and then telling the teachers. I thought as soon as a test was completed, the results are uploaded to the MAP server and become available the next day.
We had something suspicious happen this year with older DD's scores. We received her fall report at the beginning of the year. At conferences at the end of October, we got another copy of the report from her teacher, but this time, one of her earlier fall scores had been changed (even though she did not retake a test from this past fall). It no longer matched the fall report we had received earlier. There was no accounting for it and because we are trying to be totally non confrontational with DD's teacher as this year will determine placement for next year, we didn't say anything. I looked around on the web and all I could see was that instructional weeks can be changed which can somewhat alter the report. There is little information out there for parents to find out about how the software works.
