Sounds like she's part of Columbia Virtual Academy (CVA). There's another prominent virtual academy here, called WAVA, but I wouldn't recommend it to homeschoolers. They use K-12 (you have no choice but to use the curriculum they give you) and their requirements are much more strict. For example, in CVA I can count field trips as school; in WAVA if you take a day off from the curriculum to go on a field trip, you are marked absent.
From what I know and have seen from the MAP test, I wouldn't expect there to be a big difference in scores between the primary and secondary scores. The biggest difference is suppose to be that the secondary test no longer reads the problem to the child; he has to read it himself. A child working at 2nd or 3rd grade might not even see those more difficult problems on their test at all. If they do get them, and get them wrong, the test will adapt back down to a lower level. When my daughter takes the test, we never see those lower grade level questions because she tests so high. It will be interesting to see how my son's test differs from my daughters. (Since we are at home, I can sit and observe the test.) The way the test works is that every child gets a different set of problems based on how they answer the questions.
I'll post after he tests next Tuesday.
