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I would contact someone in administration. I cannot imagine that NWEA would be amenable to dealing with a parent about a score issue. I would think that they would only deal with school personnel.

The fact that the school doesn't have a record of your DD's actual test score on her first test really doesn't make sense since it's a computer adaptive test capable of spitting out a bunch of subscores along with the main score and the Lexile range. If your DD's teacher just copy down and input the single number representing the main score, that doesn't provide sufficient information for a report.

DD had to retake the Math Map once last year because she didn't get a chance to complete the whole test (adminstered over two sessions) within 3 or 4 weeks so the computer deleted her test and she had to start all over. It would make sense that you have to delete the old test before inputting a new one since they would both be winter scores. However, I thought the district has the software to generate the reports so I am not sure why NWEA would need to be involved?

Your daughter deliberately gave the teacher an incorrect score?

While it seems odd that the computer generated score isn't available it may be a good learning exoerience.

That makes alot of sense. In light of that, I don't know why they go to all the trouble to do it. The District has the client-server version so DH thought it might be some weird thing where they have to manually input scores then upload to NWEA's server. But you are correct that they cannot incorporate all other data to get that report.


It's a mystery to me too. I found a technical manual for MAP from one of the elementary schools online dated May 2015 (so fairly recent) and the process to retake a test looks very straightforward. It shows how you can retest as many times as you like but NWEA only accepts the most valid test and that is on the final report.

Here is a copy of the text:

Can a student take the MAP test again?
Any student may be retested in any test session, even the same one. Once they are done with a test, if you would like to retest them, just assign the same test again and they can retake the test. The system will let the student take the test as many times as you want, however, only one score, per subject, per term, is considered valid. NWEA will determine which test is more valid by giving it a standard of error number. The test with the lower standard of error will be
considered the valid test.

It then goes on to say that you just click on the student's name, click "Test Again", click "Go", assign the test, then the student logs back in and retakes the test.

From this technical manual, I don't see how the report could not be printing out properly.

It sounds you've bought into the MAP assessment regimen but were I in your shoes I would seriously consider just waiting for the spring testing round and not spending another hour or two of instructional time on a repeated assessment. How much are you going to really gain out of this exercise?