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MAP DATA INFO NIGHT 2015

What are NWEA assessments used

for?

MAP® assessments measure a student’s progress or growth in school. You may have a growth chart in your home on which you mark your child’s height at certain times throughout the year. It shows how much he or she has grown from one year to the next. MAP® assessments do the same. They measure your child’s growth in mathematics, reading, language usage, and science skills.

Adaptive Tests

MAP tests are taken online. The questions adjust in difficulty as the student answers correctly or incorrectly. This allows for a test specifically created for each individual learning level.

Your child should have had the opportunity to learn the information presented on the test because the tests are aligned with the Madison County Common Core Curriculum.

RIT Scale

The scale used to measure your child’s progress is called the RIT scale (Rasch unIT). The RIT scale is an equal-interval scale much like feet and inches on a yardstick. It is used to chart your child’s academic growth from year to year.

What’s a RIT Score?

Your child’s MAP results are reported in RIT scores. Also, instead of basing your child’s score compared to others in his or her grade, the RIT score is an equal-interval scale that is independent of grade level. As a result, we can easily measure growth in learning.

This type of score enables teachers to recognize where to focus attention for your child’s learning.

How do teachers use the test scores?

MAP® tests are important to teachers because they keep track of progress and growth in basic skills. They let teachers know where a student’s strengths are and if help is needed in specific areas. Teachers use this information to help them guide instruction in the classroom.

NORMS

MAP testing is a powerful tool for monitoring student growth over time. It provides status norms of RIT scores, with norm samples for Mathematics, Reading, Language Usage, and General Science.

College Readiness

Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) has completed a study to predict performance on the ACT® achievement tests in reading and mathematics using scores on the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) assessments for reading and mathematics for students in grades 5 through 9. The study identified cut-scores on MAP that correspond to published college readiness benchmarks on the ACT and provided a set of tables to help teachers and parents gauge, in a timely manner, whether a student is on track in his or her preparation for college success.

College Readiness

Generally, the study finds that middle school students are likely to be college ready if they performed

MATH 6th 7th 8th

ACT > 22 232 238 243

ACT > 24 237 243 248

Reading 6th 7th 8th

ACT > 22 220 224 227

ACT > 24 223 227 230

Student Progress Report

Science Progress Report

Lexile Levels

• MetaMetrics® Find A Book

• Scholastic®Book Wizard

• Lexile.com

Percentile Rank

The percentile rank is a normative statistic that indicates how well a student performed in comparison to the students in the norm group. A student’s percentile rank indicates that the student scored as well as, or better than, the percent of students in the norm group. In other words, a student with a percentile rank of 72 scored as well as, or better than 72 percent of the students in the norm group.

Percentile Range

Percentiles are used to compare one student’s performance to that of the norm group. Percentile means the student scored as well as, or better than, that percent of students taking the test in his/her grade. There is about a 68 percent chance that a student’s percentile ranking would fall within this range if the student tested again relatively soon.

District Average

The average RIT score for all students in the school district in the same grade who were tested at the same time as your child.

Reliability

•MAP has an extensive bank of questions• Test and retest studies have

consistently yielded statistically valid correlations between multiple test events for the same student.

What can I do with this information?

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