Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

1. Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) • Universal Screener and Diagnostic Test • AIMSWeb is only a screener • Adaptive test items • Depending on how student answers, MAP adjusts the next items given. • Provides continuum that lists concepts and skills as emerging, developing, to be developed.

2. Getting to Know Descartes • MAP uses a measurement scale that has proven to be stable and valid over time. • It is based on the same modern test theory that aligns student achievement levels with item difficulties on the same scale. • The scale is divided into an equal interval scale (like centimeters on a ruler). • These are called RITs, which is short for RaschUnit (named after the founder of the test theory). • The RIT scale measures a student’s academic growth over time.

3. Individual Student Growth Report

5. Stand Up, Match Up, Give One, Get One • One minute by yourself • Study the sample Achievement Status and Growth Class report and think about the ways you might use this report in your school. • One minute by yourself • Write down two to three of the ideas you came up with • Stand up, hand up (like high five). Find someone not in your grade level AND not sitting next to you. Match up (Burst high five). • Share one of your ideas with your partner • Partner shares one idea with you Whole group debrief and record

6. Grade level ladders • Sit with teacher(s) in grade level above/below you • Sit with teacher(s) in at least one different content area • Look at Descartes continuum • Choose one goal strand for content area of choice (reading, language, science) • Match up proficient RIT goal level • Analyze skills expected at your grade level and compare to skills expected at each other’s grade levels • How do these compare to standards? • Repeat for additional goal strands