Re: MAP assessment or other online assessment

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On 11/07/09, RF wrote:
> Hello Sid,
>
> I read your comments with dismay because our district and state
> (Washington) have embraced MAPS. I am required to use it to
> select students for remedial reading, and the results I am
> getting from the first round of testing don't match my experience
> working with some of these kids. What is DRA?
>
>DRA stands for Developmental Reading Assessment. True story- my
daughter is in H.S. and according to MAP, she was low in reading and
they sent her home with a letter telling us that she was eligible
for their crap remedial reading program (I think it was Read 180).
My daughter was in tears and I told her that she would do well on
the only test that mattered, the state mandated tests and she never
did the Read 180 program. Did she meet standard on the state test?
No,she EXCEEDED it! She scored in the top 15th percentile. In my
district, we have administrators with little or no
experience/training in education. MAP gives them numbers toss around
to sound more intelligent than they really are. I mean hey, they
always want to talk about "data" (wow, they are sooo smart!) but
they don't know what the numbers mean and lack the knowledge to to
be able to question them
 

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