![]() ![]() For example, recent MAP score results from students on hybrid and distance learning merely reflect those students who have had home support. ![]() Low growth scores could reflect various factors, including varying state curriculums, students’ socio-economic status, the emotional states of students when taking the exam, etc. Knowing that a student did worse or better than a student in Georgia tells me nothing about that particular student’s needs. But rates of change are not necessarily a good indicator of educational quality. The MAP test tabulates an individual student’s growth rate compared to a normed rate of growth nationwide for similar students. The maker of MAP (NWEA) asserts that it measures learning growth, specifically how rapidly a child is learning what is taught in class. But first appearances may be deceitful the MAP test is “all show and no go.” With such claims, what parent, educator, or policymaker wouldn’t approve of such a test. And yet, in many states, these tests are given six times each year and cost taxpayers millions of dollars.¹ By the time a student graduates, these tests take up two months of instructional time.² This is the MAP test (Measure of Academic Progress), an instrument that purportedly shows what students know and how fast they are learning. In every state of the nation, there is a standardized test that rarely gets noticed. Source: Scrap the MAP! Solidarity with Seattle teachers boycotting the MAP test ![]()
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