Measures of Academic Progress

2. Measures of Academic Progress • Growth Modeling vs. Proficiency • Adaptive Testing vs. Fixed Form • Curriculum Check • Identification • GT • Students with Disabilities • Leveling • Projected Proficiency

3. www.nwea.org Take a guided tour

4. Data to inform decisions District Programs

5. INDIVIDUALIZED assessment for each child

6. Measures of Academic Progress Computer-Adaptive Assessments • MAP Reading – Language Usage – Mathematics (Package) • MAP for Primary Grades - Reading/Math - Headphones • MAP Science • MAP Spanish Audio Mathematics

7. What information can you obtain from NWEA assessments? • Diagnostic instructional level data • Student growth data • Normative data • Projected proficiency for state tests* • *In states with completed alignment studies NWEA

8. What information can you obtain from NWEA assessments? • Growth trajectories • Program placement guidelines • Intake data on enrollment • Grade, school and district-wide data • Reading Lexile data NWEA

9. Reporting results . . . instantly

10. Measuring Learning Growth RIT Scale 280 6’ • Just as we can use a tape to measure a child’s height . . . • We can use the RIT Scale to measure a child’s learning growth . . . 2’ 150

11. RIT (Rasch Unit) Scale • Linked to curriculum • Achievement scale • Equal interval • Cross graded growth measurement • Shows growth over time Adult Reading 280 RIT SCALE Test items are calibrated for difficulty along the RIT scale. 150 Beginning Literacy

12. Design of Conventional Assessments • Purpose is external accountability - usually • Measure grade specific curriculum • Measure average students in a grade Adult Reading 12 5th Grade K Beginning Literacy

13. Does One-Size Fit All?

14. Reality… Grace Typical classroom represented by Norm Daniel Grace Norm 5th Grade Daniel

15. Design & Features of MAP (computer-adaptive tests) • Each test is dynamically developed for each student • Accurate data for students across the scale – after about 6-8 questions – the system levels the student • Tests are not timed • Immediate results • Can test up to 4 times a year (with exception of science) • Large item bank Upper Math MAP __ RIT Scale 12 + Grace + + + + - - 223 7th + + 5th Grade - - - + Daniel - - - + + + + + 201 4th K Beginning Math INDIVIDUALIZED assessment for each child

16. Resources And Tools

17. NWEA MAP REPORTS • Standard Package • Teacher Reports (MAP – within 24 hrs. after upload – Password) • Summary Reports (MAP – within 72 hrs. after all testing is done - data uploaded to NWEA) • Class Report • Individual Student/Parent Reports • School Summary Reports • District Summary Reports • Etc. • Dynamic Reporting Suite - reports developed for teacher views and administrator views

18. Another view of the data . . . using tables Flexibility to choose different formats for reporting Select Reports – Page 13

19. Select Reports – Page 9

20. NWEA tools to inform instruction Dynamic Reporting Suite

21. Uses of DesCartesAligned to goal structures and content standards of your state • Resource for targeting and differentiating individual instruction • Resource for curriculum revision • Resource for school improvement planning • Tool to monitor student progress • Resource for parent conferencing and partnering with parents for enrichment

22. INDIVIDUALIZED assessment – linked to instruction for each child

23. Daniel’s Learning Continuum

24. Students placed in the 10-RIT Bands by class - online

25. Lexile Resources www.lexile.com • RIT Scale is aligned with the Lexile Score • Helpful to teachers and parents in choosing • appropriate reading materials • Use to create theme units with appropriate • reading materials for every child • Use to purchase books for school and • classroom libraries • A Lexile measure represents the level at which students can read at 75% • comprehension

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