MAP Professional Standards and Ethics 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A student becomes ill partway through a MAP session. What is the appropriate action?
- Make the student finish before leaving
- Follow the manual's procedures for pausing and resuming the test (Correct answer)
- Finish the test for the student
- Throw out the student's test permanently
Correct answer: Follow the manual's procedures for pausing and resuming the test
The manual provides standardized procedures for emergencies and interruptions.
Question 2: Posting an 'Inspirational Math Formulas' poster during a math MAP test is:
- Encouraged to lower test anxiety
- An irregularity, because displayed content that could help students must be covered or removed (Correct answer)
- Allowed if it was already up before testing
- Allowed for grades 3-5 only
Correct answer: An irregularity, because displayed content that could help students must be covered or removed
Instructional materials that could help students answer items must be covered or removed during testing.
Question 3: Which action best shows professional integrity in reporting assessment data?
- Reporting results accurately even when they are unfavorable (Correct answer)
- Leaving out low-scoring subgroups from reports
- Rounding scores up to the next achievement level
- Sharing only the highest-performing classrooms
Correct answer: Reporting results accurately even when they are unfavorable
Ethical educators report data honestly and completely.
Question 4: Excluding a low-performing student from MAP testing to raise school averages is:
- Allowed with parental consent
- Unethical and against participation requirements (Correct answer)
- Allowed if the student has attendance problems
- Allowed for students new to the district
Correct answer: Unethical and against participation requirements
Eligible students must be included, and manipulating who participates distorts accountability data.
Question 5: An English learner is eligible for an allowable language support on MAP. The teacher should make sure the support:
- Changes what the test measures
- Is used consistently with district policy and MAP guidelines (Correct answer)
- Includes translating the answers for the student
- Is given only if the student asks during the test
Correct answer: Is used consistently with district policy and MAP guidelines
Allowable EL supports must follow established guidelines so the tested construct stays the same.
Question 6: After testing ends, secure MAP paper materials should be:
- Kept by teachers for review
- Recycled with classroom papers
- Counted and returned to the building coordinator following chain-of-custody procedures (Correct answer)
- Sent home for parents to see
Correct answer: Counted and returned to the building coordinator following chain-of-custody procedures
Chain-of-custody procedures make sure every secure document is accounted for.
Question 7: A teacher reviews the content of a test item while monitoring students in order to adjust next year's instruction. This is:
- Acceptable professional development
- A security violation, because test administrators should not study secure items (Correct answer)
- Acceptable if no notes are taken
- Required by DESE
Correct answer: A security violation, because test administrators should not study secure items
Test administrators should monitor students without reading or studying secure item content.
MAP Professional Standards and Ethics 4
A student becomes ill partway through a MAP session.
What is the appropriate action?