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PPS guide for taking a MAP Growth assessment

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Sample Items and DOK

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MAP Assessment

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Video of work done with visually impaired students

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Video of work done with visually impaired students

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Arizona School for Deaf and Blind
https://www.nwea.org/accommodations-accessibility/

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Useful questions to consider

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Examples of NWEA partnerships

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Linking Study with MAP

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Student and Teacher Experience

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Appendix K_MAP Growth Student and Teacher Experience

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Case Study MAP Growth and MAP Skills

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How do RIT scores connect with SBAC Achievement Level Descriptors (ALD 1-4)?

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NWEA has built assessment literacy resources in its Teach, Learn, Grow blog that addresses questions about the balances between competing needs. Click here for a sample.

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Time is the great equalizer. After all, no one has more than 24 hours a day. It's always how well you spend it. For schools time is a precious resource and we applaud the scrutiny on it.

Lately we've been asked how much time MAP or Skills Navigator take. It's a fair question. Assessments need to add value to the process of teaching and learning to justify the time they take. So let's look at the time required - and what students, teachers, leaders, and parents get back for that investment.

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is officially an untimed assessment, because every student works differently. That said, MAP typically takes students about an hour per subject to complete. Skills Navigator takes considerably less time - 15 minutes to determine areas of need, and just five minutes to check for mastery.

So what do you get in exchange for that time commitment?

Students and teachers get immediate results. Immediate. Not a week later, and certainly not six months later. Right at the end of the test session, students can see their score, and teachers will get a view of their students' current achievement levels.

Why does this matter? Teachers say that when they have immediate feedback on how their students are performing - especially when they can see students' true instructional levels, regardless of their grade placement - they can more effectively plan differentiation, flexible groupings, and other strategies. Each child gets just what he or she needs, when it's needed. Students, too, say that immediate feedback is most helpful to them in figuring out what they need to make progress toward their goals.

School and district leaders have different questions they need to answer.

How are the third graders in my school doing toward the state's reading mandate?

How are all third graders in the district doing?

Which programs are working they way we planned - and which ones aren't?

Have we identified everyone for Talented and Gifted programs?

How are students tracking toward proficiency on state tests?

Are our students growing academically? How do they compare to other, similar students?

These are the complex, systemic questions that can lead to lasting improvements, and ultimately, to closing achievement gaps.

MAP results are designed to help school and district leaders answer these questions - immediately.

For parents, the key questions are personal to their children. Does my son need extra help in math this year? He seems to love reading - how can I build on that? And of course, the fundamental question every parent wants answered: How is my child growing over time?

MAP can make this growth visible to parents, and especially when used with Skills Navigator, can pinpoint areas of opportunity and need, with associated learning activities.

Good assessments help children learn, they provide growth measures and give teachers and parents accurate information about progress as well as identifying growth opportunities. Bad assessments simply take - there is no give.

At NWEA, we strive to create efficient, valid, and reliable measures that provide value for every person involved in learning - students, teachers, administrators and parents. One assessment, one hour per subject. The return? Insight to do what schools and teachers do best: help all kids learn.

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Jean brings over 25 years of experience in education to her role at NWEA. She began as a middle school reading teacher in the Berkeley, California public schools. There, she developed a curriculum focused on engaging students in career explorations to foster a love of reading. She served as lead instructional designer for an online reading curriculum, held senior editorial positions with Technology & Learning magazine and Scholastic.com, and managed global communications for the Intel Foundation's professional development program.

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How much time #K12 #assessments take is half the question - here's the other half #MAPtest #assessment

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Time is the great equalizer. After all, no one has more than 24 hours a day. It's always how well you spend it. For schools time is a precious resource and we applaud the scrutiny on it. Lately we've been asked how much time MAP or Skills Navigator take.

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Description of how one report meets multiple needs for actionable data

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In a time when an abundance of information is just a click away, it's important to keep in mind that it's not necessarily what you have, but how you use it. The same can be said for data. You can have all the data in the world, but unless you know how to use it and apply it, ultimately it has little value. One of the challenges in the classroom is to take the results we collect from various assessments and use the data as a robust tool to facilitate growth, in order to help all students reach their academic potential.

At NWEA, we offer easy-to-navigate reports to help teachers manage data overload. For instance, the Student Profile report is a "one-stop-shop" for all of a student's MAP® ( Measures of Academic Progress ®) assessment data. The report contains four modules designed to be visually intuitive that make it easier for educators to use MAP results to better inform classroom instruction, enrich parent-teacher conversations, and make systemic resource decisions. Meet the modules you need to know:

1. Comparisons: This section shows a mix of current achievement and future projections.

Features a percentile ranking against NWEA 2015 Norms Study

Provides the ability to project proficiency on future tests

Determines ACT College Readiness - that is, if student is on track to score 24 on ACT. (The "On Track 24" projection is the highest benchmark, based on a more stringent ACT cut score of 24, instead of 22.)

2. Instructional Areas: Use as your MAP standards report for instructional next steps.

This module contains the RIT score for each instructional area and indicates areas of relative strength or suggested focus. These scores show the component parts of the subject that was assessed, so you can celebrate your student's strengths and suggest where they should focus efforts.

Provides the ability to show instructional next steps by state grade-level standard or topic, and learning statements to see what skills a student is ready to learn within each standard.

Show or Hide Learning Statements and filtering - Hide learning statements to show standards or topics, or filter by specific standard or topic to focus instruction.

3. Growth Goals: Set. Save. Review.

Create and save growth or performance targets for each student for upcoming terms, and then return later to see if those goals were met.

Use goals to move students to higher performance levels. Consider the growth needed to be successful on upcoming state or college assessments, and then challenge the student to go above and beyond.

4. Growth Over Time: Your resource for effective parent and student conversations.

Displays all longitudinal data for a student by providing multiple years of student data with growth goals over a background that shows normative quintiles.

Clicking on a test event shows instructional area scores and test duration.

Located at the bottom of the Student Profile report, which you will find on the MAP Reports page within the section named "Next-Generation Reports." Log in to MAP to check out the Student Profile report, or learn more about MAP Reports here.

Tamara Belgard brings over 15 years experience to her role as Senior Product Marketing Coordinator for MAP Growth. After studying Psychology at the University of Colorado, she found herself magnetized by the mountain lifestyle and spent several years exploring the Colorado backcountry before moving to Oregon in 2002 to pursue her career in Marketing Communications. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, swimming, biking, hiking, live music, soaking up rare bits of sunshine, spending quality time with her two sons, and devouring Oregon's wine country and culinary scene to support her hobby career writing about wine, food, and travel for regional publications.

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One Student Profile report. Four modules. Actionable next steps for teachers.

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In a time when an abundance of information is just a click away, it's important to keep in mind that it's not necessarily what you have, but how you use it. The same can be said for data.

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Updated every three years

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Online, onsite, modular options so that Professional Learning and support is continuous (not a singular event)

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Student, Class, Teacher, School and District level reporting

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See samples of comparison between RIT scores at various grade levels and proficiency benchmarks related to college readiness.

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NWEA aligns its items to the Common Core using a process that allows comparison with other standards as well

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Partnering to Help All Kids Learn

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We include a Spanish-language version of MAP Growth Mathematics tests to precisely and
equally measure English language learners. MAP Growth tests are designed to be accessible to
students with a variety of needs, and include accommodations for those with disabilities.
Neither MAP Growth nor MAP Skills is tied to a proprietary curriculum. Instead, NWEA has
partnered with multiple top-tier curriculum providers, offering you the flexibility to choose the
curriculum that best suits your needs. MAP Growth connects with instructional content from
providers such as Carnegie Learning®, Edgenuity®, and Khan Academy® to give teachers the
tools to be more efficient and more effective

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Spanish version

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Parent Guide to MAP Growth_Spanish_AUG2017

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Racially and Culturally relevant content

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Racially and Culturally relevant content

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NWEA is committed to meeting the diverse linguistic and cultural needs of all students. Accessibility is at the foundation of our test development. We have adopted the accessibility language and terminology from the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Accessibility Manual[1] because it focuses on providing supports for a student in both curriculum and assessment. The CCSSO model fits with our approach to accessibility by allowing students to access the same tools and accommodations they already know and use on a regular basis.

See Appendix C NWEA Accommodations in Proposal

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MAP Growth Instructional Areas Framework

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MAP Growth Instructional Areas Framework

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Appendix B of Proposal

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Appendix B_ MAP Growth Instructional Areas Framework

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Common Core

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Approach with high ELL and high poverty school

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Our Lady of Hungary School IN Case Study

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NWEA integrates at the Standards level with many Content providers, including Khan Academy, an open educational resource supporting the Common Core.  See links of MAP RIT scores to relevant content in Khan.

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MAP to Khan Academy: Khan Academy Practice Exer... | NWEA Community

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This document correlates MAP® sub-goals and RIT ranges to Khan Academy® exercises. The Khan exercises are interactive problems for students with instant

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NWEA can support professional development focused on day to day formative practice strategies. We have partnerships with many Content providers, including Carnegie Learning, Odysseyware, Edgenuity, Wowzer, and other Math supplemental content providers who also provide support for Common Core. See example.

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Methodologies, Validity, Reliability