Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment MAP score, how reliable is it?

It seems to me the older the child gets the less useful MAP is. I couldn't agree with you more that standardized test certainly doesn't equate to success in a class. An example my daughter was in a Algebra 2 class in eighth grade with kids that were 99% MAP scores. She's going into tenth grade now an now some are taking Calc BC, Calc AB and Trig/Calc A this upcoming year. My point is a MAP at this point is meaningless.

OP here. We just received DS8's most recent MAP score. He scored 240 in math and 225 in reading. The points made by other posters last year were valid. It is probably a better practice to compare MAP progress year by year, instead of test by test.

Again, thank you for all your input.

I think that MAP scores become fairly meaningless for gifted kids somewhere in middle elementary.