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A Teachers Guide to Using NWEA MAP Results

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A Teachers Guide to Using NWEA MAP Results

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    1. A Teachers Guide to Using NWEA MAP Results Susan Lane-Outlaw, PhD April 16, 2010 Minnesota D/HH Educators Conference

    2. Quick Check In & Review How many of you have administered the NWEA MAP tests? Whose district gives the NWEA MAP tests, but you really dont have anything to do with it? Who hasnt used NWEA MAP testing or your district does not NWEA MAP? Who currently tests once a year? Twice a year?

    3. Discuss with a Neighbor What do you know about NWEA MAP tests? What types of assessment do you find beneficial and which do you feel are not beneficial? What makes an assessment beneficial and how do you use them to guide instruction?

    4. NWEA MAP Review Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Computerized assessment Adapts to the students abilities Areas Metro Deaf School-Minnesota North Star Academy assesses: Math Reading

    5. NWEA MAP tests provide highly accurate results that can be used to: Identify the skills and concepts individual students have learned. Diagnose instructional needs. Monitor academic growth over time. Make data-driven decisions at the classroom, school, and district levels. Place new students into appropriate instructional programs.

    6. Standard Scores, Lexiles, and Norms What does a RIT score of 197 mean? How do you know what type of texts to provide for the students in your class? How is a students who scores a 205 academically different from a student who scores a 215?

    7. RIT Rasch Unit Like units on a ruler, the scale is divided into equal intervals- called Rasch Units (RIT)- and is independent of grade level. We can use RIT levels to monitor student growth over time and along developmental curriculum scales. RIT is not on the exact same level for each content area, so scores between subjects are not equivalent. RIT assigns a value of difficulty to each item, and with an equal interval measurement, so the difference between scores is the same regardless of whether a student is at the top, bottom, or middle of the scale.

    8. Reading RIT Chart

    9. Math RIT Chart

    10. DesCartes DesCartes contains separate sections for each subject in mathematics and reading. The goal strands are then broken down into ten-point RIT bands. Within each band, sub-categories, which further divide the content within the goal area, break down the skills and concepts found in the NWEA item banks.

    11. DesCartes Many concepts and skills within DesCartes cross several RIT bands. The RIT we associate with a concept is not purely reflective of the concepts difficulty. A concepts difficulty is also affected by the complexity, cognitive demand, and format of the tasks (in NWEAs case items) that they associate with the concept. Asking a student to multiply 26 x 9 is a lower RIT task than asking students to solve a multiplication story problem in which they have to determine the proper arithmetic operation and apply it to the right numbers in an application situation.

    12. Use of DesCartes The purpose of DesCartes is to help guide instruction based on reports from Measure of Academic Progress (MAP). DesCartes enhances a teachers ability to provide targeted instruction for individual students or groups of students. It is not intended to be a replacement for district curriculum or standards that are already in place.

    13. Lexiles When students take the reading MAP assessment, you receive two different measures: a RIT score, and a Lexile score. A Lexile measure is defined as "the numeric representation of an individuals reading ability or a texts readability (or difficulty), followed by an L (Lexile)" Lexile programs are specially designed to evaluate reading demand, analyzes the texts semantic (word frequency) and syntactic (sentence length) characteristics and assigns it a Lexile measure The Lexile Framework for Reading ranks texts and correlates them to reading abilities, and helps measure a student's reading level and growth.

    14. Lexiles With Lexile educators and parents can: Identify a student's individual reading level. Match a learner's reading level with fiction, non-fiction, and instructional materials spanning thousands of books and millions of articles. Track a student's reading comprehension over time and set goals accordingly. Forecast whether a reader will be able to easily comprehend the material. Set and track goals for independent reading. Plan for disparities between student reading comprehension levels and the readability of assigned materials. Easily create customized reading lists for individual students.

    15. What should I do once I have the data? Determine strengths and weaknesses of academic performance for each student Take other issues into account, but not as an excuse Group students with similar strengths and weaknesses for instruction Review the Learning Continuum and add needed skill lessons to weekly lesson plans Re-assess in each area to ensure mastery

    16. Accessing this information Log in by using your login user name and the password by clicking at https://reports.nwea.org The login is different for each grade level. Grade passwords and logins will be handed out. You should keep this for future reference and it is also available on the Q server under testing and 09-10 assessments in the teacher folder. On the left of your screen, you will see the heading Online Reports. Under that heading, you will see Teacher Reports. Click on Teacher Reports The Teacher Report is designed to give you web access to test results for your class. You can view reports containing all current information within 24 hours of data being uploaded to NWEA. Click the season and year the testing took place to select a term.

    17. Activity In pairs participants will be given three student profiles and MAP scores. Given their RIT scores and using the NWEA norms, you will document their approximate academic grade levels. Then you will need to review the brief DesCartes handout and generate lesson plan ideas for reading and math for these students. What would you do if they were in the same classroom for instruction? You will be given approximately 15 minutes to do this activity.

    18. Activity Feedback Lets briefly share some profiles, scores, and a couple of instructional ideas you developed. What information did you find helpful? How did you use the DesCartes handouts and how could you use this information online?

    19. Opportunity for Questions, Feedback, & Discussion

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