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MAP THE BASICS

MAP THE BASICS. Prepared by: Debbie Sanders, Instructional Coach Beck Academy IBMYP August 2009. What is MAP?.

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MAP THE BASICS

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  1. MAPTHE BASICS Prepared by: Debbie Sanders, Instructional Coach Beck Academy IBMYP August 2009

  2. What is MAP? MAP is not a "mastery" test. Students are not expected to get every question right. In fact, the best assessment measure is one where a student gets 50% of the questions right and 50% of the questions wrong. This is where we get the best information on the actual instructional level of a student.

  3. Percentile and Percent Percentile is how well a student performed compared to a norm's sample for that grade. Fifth graders are compared to fifth graders, ninth graders to ninth graders, etc. A student at the 35th percentile scored as well as, or better than 35 percent of the students in the norm sample for that grade. 65 percent of the students performed better. Percentiles are not good measures for showing growth. A common mistake is for people to think that a student in the 35th percentile got 35 percent of the items correct. Percentile has nothing to do with the percentage of correct answers a student gets on a test.

  4. How can MAP be of use to me as a teacher? MAP scores are reported as RITS. The RIT scale is used to measure how tall a student is on the curriculum scale. Like measuring height on a yardstick, RIT scores can be compared to indicate how much growth a student has made. Characteristics of the RIT Scale: •         Equal interval. •         Unrelated to grade or age.         •         Reflects instructional level.

  5. Score Ranges Score ranges indicate the range of error or confidence band around a score.  It is important to remember that no score is absolute. We would expect that if a student took the test again relatively soon, his or her score would fall within this range most of the time. Placement and Instructional Implications: Consider ranges when determining whether students make the cut for programs. Students performing within the same range have similar instructional needs.

  6. The standard deviation is an indication of the academic diversity of the group.  Large standard deviations would represent a class that is spread out across many RIT bands. Whole group instruction would probably not be as effective with this group. Smaller standard deviations represent a class that is clustered in only a few RIT bands. Important things to note about Score Ranges: There is no significant difference between scores that are less than three points apart. 195 in Computation and 197 in Measurement are comparable scores. The range is one standard error above and below the student's RIT score.     The mean and median RIT for the class allows comparison of the class with the norm group for that grade.

  7. What does the standard deviation in this reading MAP assessment tell us about this ELA class?

  8. Teachers can help their students set goals based on their NWEA data. The MAP conference sheets are now in the student planner. Have the student list specific goals from fall to spring. MAP conferences should be completed before the end of November. • Conference with each student. • Review individual data with student. • Celebrate success. • Set a goal for improvement. • Set a growth goal • Make a plan. • The teacher will _____________. • The student will _____________

  9. There are a variety of teacher reports. • Class reports of RIT ranges in descending order are useful to create differentiated groups. • Class reports by goal descriptors provide specific instructional levels in each goal level of the assessment. • Parents also receive individual progress reports. These are only printed from the district downloads approximately two weeks after testing ends.

  10. Descriptors are based on grade level percentiles as determined by our norming study. Himeans the score is in the top third (percentile scores greater than 66.) Av means the score is in the middle third (percentile scores between 66 and 33.) Lo means that the score is in the bottom third (percentile scores equal to or less than 33.)

  11. We can see, at a glance, that the Goal Performance area of Measurement on the report above has the lowest mean for this class. It is almost four RIT points lower than any of the other goal areas and is five points lower than the overall mean RIT for the class.. Our research tells us that three or more points higher or lower than the overall mean RIT for the class represents a relative area of strength or concern for the class

  12. How do I use Lexile ranges effectively with my students? The Lexile range is a score (displayed as a 150-point range) that can be used to find text of appropriate difficulty. It allows educators and parents to find appropriately challenging books, periodicals, and other reading material for students. It represents a level of reading difficulty that leaves the reader neither frustrated nor bored. Lexile measures are based on two predictors: Semantic difficulty - word frequency Syntactic complexity - sentence length Lexile measures allow you to manage student reading comprehension. When reader and text measures match, the reader is "targeted." This is the basis for selecting text that is targeted to a student's reading ability, and the result is an expected 75-percent comprehension rate - not too difficult to be frustrating, but difficult enough to encourage reading progress.Lexile is a unit for measuring text difficulty and reader comprehension.

  13. When looking at Lexile ranges, remember… Content - teachers and parents play a critical role in choosing material that is age appropriate. Genre - when introducing a new genre, teachers may have to offer more support for students. Interest - when students are highly interested in a topic, they might be able to read and comprehend text that is at a higher Lexile than a topic that they are not as interested in or familiar with.

  14. Look at Lexiles as a range of scores. The RIT score represents the test items a student gets right about half of the time, or their instructional level. The Lexile score represents the level at which the student can read with 75% comprehension. 100 points below the Lexile score is considered the range where the student reads fairly well independently; 50 points above is considered the range where the student will need some guidance.

  15. Example: Emily takes the reading assessment this fall. She scores 223. This is her RIT and instructional level (9.0) Her Lexile range is 1000. What books can you suggest for her independent reading? The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 1000 Lexile 223 RIT Lexile ranges can be viewed at the following site: http://www.lexile.com.

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