MAP Professional Standards and Ethics 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which body can discipline a Missouri educator's certificate for serious professional misconduct, including test fraud?
- The local PTA
- The Missouri State Board of Education (Correct answer)
- The testing vendor
- The county assessor
Correct answer: The Missouri State Board of Education
The State Board of Education has authority to suspend or revoke educator certificates.
Question 2: A teacher reminds students to 'double-check your work' using only the scripted directions in the manual. This is:
- A violation because it gives hints
- Allowed because it follows the standardized script (Correct answer)
- Allowed only for certain students
- Allowed only during writing sections
Correct answer: Allowed because it follows the standardized script
Reading approved scripted language to all students is standardized and permitted.
Question 3: Which situation is a conflict of interest during MAP administration?
- A teacher administering the test to their own child without following district policy (Correct answer)
- A teacher monitoring a hallway
- A counselor scheduling testing rooms
- A coordinator ordering materials
Correct answer: A teacher administering the test to their own child without following district policy
Testing a relative can create bias, so districts often limit or require additional oversight for it.
Question 4: When a teacher learns a student may have seen test content ahead of time, the best first step is to:
- Let the student keep testing and say nothing
- Document it and notify the building or district test coordinator (Correct answer)
- Change the student's score
- Tell the student's classmates
Correct answer: Document it and notify the building or district test coordinator
Suspected breaches should be documented and reported so DESE procedures can be followed.
Question 5: Using MAP results as the only factor for a high-stakes decision about an individual student is discouraged because:
- MAP scores are secret
- Sound practice uses multiple measures for important decisions (Correct answer)
- MAP scores are never reported to schools
- State law bans all use of scores
Correct answer: Sound practice uses multiple measures for important decisions
Professional testing standards recommend using multiple sources of evidence for consequential decisions.
Question 6: A teacher posts students' individual MAP scores on a classroom bulletin board by name. This mainly violates:
- Copyright law
- Student privacy protections under FERPA (Correct answer)
- Open records laws
- Teacher contract terms
Correct answer: Student privacy protections under FERPA
Publicly displaying identifiable student scores breaks student record privacy.
Question 7: Which statement best describes the purpose of test security procedures for MAP?
- To keep teachers from knowing the standards
- To protect the validity and fairness of results for all students (Correct answer)
- To limit parent involvement
- To lower the number of students tested
Correct answer: To protect the validity and fairness of results for all students
Security keeps results accurate, comparable, and fair.
MAP Professional Standards and Ethics 5
Which body can discipline a Missouri educator's certificate for serious professional misconduct, including test fraud?