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MAP Assessments

MAP Assessments. How to maximize your results. How Does MAP help . Utilizing data to help inform instructional decisions Differentiating instruction to better meet student needs Grouping students flexibly for more effective instruction Evaluating programs and curriculum for effectiveness .

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MAP Assessments

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  1. MAP Assessments How to maximize your results

  2. How Does MAP help • Utilizing data to help inform instructional decisions • Differentiating instruction to better meet student needs • Grouping students flexibly for more effective instruction • Evaluating programs and curriculum for effectiveness

  3. Class Reports by RIT Score • This report presents a visualization of how students are performing. • MAP tests are adaptive and test items are based on student performance, not age or grade, so a score means the same thing. • A 3rd grader who received a score of 210 and a 4th grader who received a score of 210 are learning at the same level. This allows growth to be measured

  4. How to use the RIT Charts • Find the column containing the student’s score for a particular reporting area. • For example, if the student’s reading score in “Literature” is 188, refer to the column labeled 181–190. • Read down the column to locate a sample test question for a given reporting area, such as “Literature.” • A student’s score suggests that, currently, the student is likely to get about half of the questions of this difficulty correct. • Now look at the questions in the column(s) to the left. • The student is likely to get most of these correct, assuming he or she has been instructed in these skills and concepts. • The questions in the column(s) to the right will probably require new learning on the student’s part.

  5. Teacher Activity Investigate a Class • What subject, grade, and season is this report? • Which student has the highest RIT score? • Which student has the lowest RIT score? • Which student has the median RIT score? • Which goal area has the highest mean? • Which goal area has the lowest mean?

  6. Grade Level Connection • Highest RIT score = what grade level? • Lowest RIT score = what grade level? • Median RIT score = what grade level? • How many and which scholars are three points or more from the grade level median (this group should be your immediate focus)?

  7. Standard Deviation • Look at the goal strands on your • Class Report by RIT Score. • If you have double-digit standard deviations, you may consider differentiated instruction. • Higher standard deviations mean that your students have a wide variety of academic capability in that performance goal area. • If you have a single digit standard deviation, whole group instruction may be appropriate.

  8. What is Needed to Differentiate Lesson Using MAP Score? • RIT Score Chart • Unique to each teacher based on their class • Descartes Packet • Subject specific • Ladder Document • Template for your differentiation by readiness

  9. Descartes • MAP also provides reports of Class breakdown by Overall RIT Score and by Goal in an interactive format linked to DesCartes.

  10. Descartes • DesCartes can be used to access the Skills and Concepts to Enhance, Skills and Concepts to Develop, and Skills and Concepts to Introduce to individual students or your class as a whole.

  11. How to Access Descartes • Go to http://www.nwea.org/ • Left click Log on to the Reports Site • Fill in this information: • User Name • Password • A screen with school, term, teacher and class will appear. • Left click submit. On the left side of the screen, scroll down to Instructional Resources • Left click on Class by RIT

  12. How To use Descartes • Click on the student's name to retrieve a PDF file containing the Learning Continuum list of skills that corresponds to the goal RIT range for the associated goal. • Click on the Goal name to retrieve a PDF file that contains the Learning Continuum pages for each RIT range for that goal. • Click on the <all students in cell> link to retrieve a PDF file listing all the students within the cell and corresponding Learning Continuum pages for that RIT range and goal. • The score in parentheses by the student's name (i.e. Name (219) represents their overall RIT score for this subject.

  13. Descartes The column on the right, Skills and Concepts to Introduce, includes skills and concepts that students might be ready to learn if the appropriate groundwork is laid or if a task is presented in a more structured format. The column on the left, Skills and Concepts to Enhance, includes those skills and concepts that students may need continued reinforcement, support, and enhancement to maintain. In the center column, Skills and Concepts to Develop, are those skills and concepts the students are ready to learn. These include skills and concepts that teachers may want to include in current classroom instruction.

  14. Reports • The Achievement Status and Growth Summary or Target Report (ASG Report). • This report will help you determine what your students RIT score goal is for the winter and spring.

  15. Class Report

  16. Class by RIT • Click on subjects to break down into goal areas. • Click on a student's name to retrieve a PDF file containing the Learning • Continuum list of skills that corresponds to the goal RIT range. • Click on the Goal name to retrieve a PDF file that contains the Learning • Continuum pages for each RIT range for that goal.

  17. RIT Range Specific Goals Scholars are placed in each goal based on Their RIT scores

  18. With your Grade Level…. • Look a class by RIT scores. • Place scholars according to RIT scores – use the ladder worksheet • Look at DesCartes to determine the skill levels for each group. • Create goals using skills level DesCartes so each group is on the same skill.

  19. Student Comprehension by Lexile • Students can be matched to a Lexile measure through a variety of testing methods. • A student’s Lexile measure is represented by a range of 150 points. The lower end of that range represents the level at which the student is able to read independently. The upper end of the range represents the student’s instructional reading level, a level at which the student is likely to need assistance and guiding. • The Lexile Analyzer is an excellent tool to use to check the lexile of a text

  20. What is Lexile? • The Lexile Range, is the difficulty range of text that can be understood 75% of the time by the student. • Encourage your students to choose books that fall in their Lexile Range. • The Lexile framework does not address: age appropriateness, interest, text support (pictures), or text quality. • It looks only at text difficulty.

  21. Resources • http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/ (math skills) • http://www.fortheteachers.org/differentiation_framework.htm (grouping strategies and ideas) • http://www.prepdog.org/ • https://sites.google.com/a/wfsd.k12.ny.us/nwea/map-reading-activities

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