Measures of Academic Progress

1. Measures of Academic Progress How to Interpret Results Ann Kox

2. What is MAP? • Measures of Academic Progress • Tests in reading, language, and math • Aligned to United States’ Academic Standards • Provides for continuous measures for grades 2-8 • Multiple choice format

3. What MAPs Measure? • Reading • Math • Language (grammar and usage)

4. Reporting • The MAP reports are aligned to most U. S. State academic standards • Student reports show • school averages • national norms • individual scores • School reports show international comparisons and other information

5. Reading • MAP for 2-8 Measures: • Word Analysis and Vocabulary • Literal Comprehension • Interpretive Comprehension • Literary Response and Analysis • (Lexiles)

6. Math • MAP for 2-8 Measures: • Number Sense and Operations • Patterns, Functions, and Algebra • Measurement • Geometry and Spatial Sense • Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability • Problem Solving

7. Language Usage • MAP for 2-8 Measures: • Writing Strategies • Writing Application and Style • Mechanics • Grammar

8. What Is A RIT? RIT - Rasch Unit, honoring George Rasch, the Danish mathematician who developed the underlying theory for this type of measurement. The RIT Scale is a curriculum scale developed by NWEA that uses the individual item difficulty values to estimate student achievement. Advantages to the RIT Scale are that it can relate the numbers on the scale directly to the difficulty of items on the tests and it is equal interval. Equal interval means that the difference between scores is the same regardless of whether a student is at the top, bottom or middle of the RIT Scale.

9. Where Does EARJ Stand? MATH

10. Where Does EARJ Stand? READING

11. Where Does EARJ Stand? Language Usage

12. Where Does EARJ Stand?

13. Using Results to Drive Learning • Students test 2 times per year to measure growth • Results are broken down by sub-skills • Reports are cumulative to show growth over time

14. Using Results to Drive Learning

15. Using Results to Drive Learning

16. GOAL DESCRIPTORS

17. Percentile Percentile Rank - A point (score) in a distribution at or below the percent of cases indicated by the percentile. Thus a score coinciding with the 35th percentile is regarded as equaling or surpassing 35 percent of the persons in the group. It also means that 65 percent of the performances exceed this score. "Percentile" has nothing to do with the percent of correct answers an examinee makes on a test.

18. DESCARTES Purpose and Suggested Uses The purpose of DesCartes is to help guide instruction based on reports from an NWEA Achievement Level Test or computerized Measures of Academic Progress assessment. DesCartes enhances a teacher's ability to provide targeted instruction for individual students or student groups.

19. DESCARTES Suggested uses for DesCartes are in the following list. • Materials Selection • Sharing Resources • Curriculum Planning • School Improvement Planning • Monitoring Student Progress • Individual Education Plans • Parent Conferencing

20. DESCARTES

21. Where Do We Go Now?

22. What Is A Lexile? A measure that helps identify reading material that is at an appropriate difficulty level for an individual student. When a student reads material within his or her Lexile® range, that student should read with 75% comprehension. Lexile® is a trademark of MetaMetrics, Inc., and is registered in the United States and abroad.

23. LEXILE LEXILE RANGE EARJ GRADE 8 ENGLISH (One Class) 501-651 609-759 915-1065 969-1119 1023-1173 1077-1227 1149-1299 1167-1317 1167-1317 1167-1317 1221-1371 1239-1389 1419-1569

24. Reports Provide Lexile Scores • www.lexile.com • Book Wizard at http://bookwizard.scholastic.com

25. Questions?