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Oh, that does NOT sound right...I believe that it is supposed to be an untimed test. Actually, DD9's biggest score jumps have usually come when she took quite some time answering some pretty challenging questions - so I'd be concerned that they failed to catch your DS's score jump.

blackcat - glad your DS's test actually was OK. It IS a little scary as a parent when you are caught by surprise that your DC was tested, since the schools do often treat them in a rather high-stakes fashion. With my DS, it is a bigger deal at this point, because he doesn't have a "testing track record" at the school, like DD does.

shifrbv - I am going to guess it may be more of an issue of the teacher not knowing how to recover the test, than an issue of the test data itself being not stored. Is there a Technology Director at the school? It really seems unfair to make a child repeat this test from scratch.

Yea, DS8 has had to split his MAP math test into more than one day a few times. Not a true ceiling, but a functional one if a kid fatigues and the process is a single sitdown. Despite the long testing DS still scores way out there.

It's not impossible to lose data but it may be more of an issue of the teacher not wanting to enlist the help of the tech support to retrieve the data. It is my understanding that the district also has some discretion on how to set parameters for the test. I know that at one point, DS/DD told me that the district modified the Math Map so everyone answers a certain number of questions even with the "adaptive" feature functioning. I also don't like the way it is administered. DS always completes each section in a single session because he is fast but DD often has to finish in a second session and a few kids who are very slow even take a third session which means that a single test can be spread over as long as four weeks if there is a holiday in there. I heard that in middle school they do move them along so that while it isn't timed in the sense of rush-rush for most people, there is a limit to how long the testing can be extended.