Welcome JoAnn and glad you're here!
I hope you don't mind me jumping in to pick your brain about MAP testing.
How you do the MAP testing as a homeschooler? I was curious since MAP testing been one of my cons for homeschooling and pros for PS. It's good to know MAP is available to homeschoolers. I'm also interested in knowing more about the MAP primary test ceilings.
Here in Washington, we have a couple of virtual academies, one of which is very homeschooler friendly. While enrolled students are technically public schoolers, we basically homeschool however we wish. The only difference between using the virtual academy and homeschooling is the requirement to check in weekly and monthly to verify progress towards the learning plan that we create and submit for approval at the beginning of the year. Annual testing is required and the virtual academy uses the MAP assessment. We are free to use any test approved by the state, but the MAP test is easiest because I just download it and log in on the day I scheduled with the school. The school's proctor then remotely connects to my computer to start the test and download the results.
So, while we are technically not homeschoolers, I refuse to give up that title since I'm still my kids' sole teacher, I still choose all of our curriculum, I still choose our methods/style, and I still chose our school hours, etc.
I don't know that the primary test has an actual ceiling and what it would be but I can tell you that my son received a RIT score that indicated that he was achieving at the end of 5th grade level in math. However, I observed his test and didn't see anything that I would call 5th grade math. The hardest problems he had were basic division facts. In fact, my son complained that the test was too easy and didn't test quite a few types of problems that he knows how to do (ie. area, volume, average, multiple digit multiplication, long division). So, we are retesting him using the secondary test in order to get a more accurate score.
