Parent Weekly Warrior
October 2nd, 2018
No School
- Friday, October 5th- Teacher Insititute Day
- Monday, October 8th
English Language Arts Summative Assessments
Fall NWEA MAP Testing Session is Complete
- Scores will be sent home with students through their Advisory class next week.
MAP tests are computer-based adaptive tests that are aligned to the Illinois Content Standards. Each student takes a unique test determined by his/her answer to each test item. When a student answers an item correctly, the next item will be more difficult. Conversely, when a student answers an item incorrectly, the next item will be easier.
These test scores are reported somewhat differently than other tests. The overall scores on the test are reported in Rausch Units (RIT). The RIT scale score is designed to measure growth in instructional content. A RIT score has equal interval scales (like a ruler) that are independent of grade level or the age of the student. Therefore, the RIT score will provide more consistency over time.
The percentile score is used to compare a student’s score or performance on the test to that of a larger norm group. In this case, the norm group represents over one million MAP test scores from students across the United States. According to the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA, the publisher of the MAP assessments), the percentile score tells us that the student scored as well or better than that percent of students taking the test in his/her grade.
In some instances, a student’s score reflects a lack of growth. There are several reasons why this may occur, including any of the following reasons: 1) the content measured has not yet been mastered; 2) the student is not familiar with a computerized testing environment; 3) the student is fatigued, or 4) the student is not sufficiently motivated. Since many of these reasons may apply to a student during one of the testing cycles, we use MAP as only one indicator of a student’s progress. As with all effective assessment systems, we use several sets of data (e.g., MAP, PARCC, reading screeners such as DIBELS, summative and formative assessments, grades) to analyze a student’s progress in the academic areas.
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