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1.  Review of the Padlet
2.  Read of the Room 1-5
a.  How comfortable are you proctoring, pausing, suspending, resuming test?
b.  Learning Continuum
c.  Reading Reports
d.  Sharing out the Report
e.  Goal Setting
3.  Proctoring
4.  Reading Reports
a.  Student Profile
b.  Student Progress Report
c.  Class Breakdown
d.  Summary w/ Quadrant Chart
5.  Learning Continuum and External Resources
6. Q and A Time

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A:  NWEA Has a number of new features:
1.  30% disengagement = invalid test.
2.  MS will have a scientific calculator available
3.  Student profile will have a new look to include features only given in other reports - a nice blend between reports.
4. Text to Speech will be available and proctor can determine which part is read to the student.

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A: Scores may fluctuate.  This line graph is not a steady incline at times.  A student may score a 200 in the Fall and drop to a 180 in the Winter.  Are you looking at student engagement?  Have you taken into account student readiness - maybe they had little sleep the night before.  Maybe the student can only give you 15 minutes of their very best attention.  Do you push through or do you suspend the test and come back to it?  You are the teacher in control of testing.

What are the deciding 'retest' factors?

You want the student to do their very best rather than a one shot and done approach.  You also want an accurate score since you will use the information to drive your instruction and lesson planning.

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How much information do you show the parents?

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How much information do you show the parents?

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A: This is a personal choice for teachers; however, the Student Profile Report does a nice job of laying out student scores, the subsections, goals / goal setting, strengths, and areas to improve.

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A: There's a great deal of information given in the results. Understanding and interpreting the data is the next step. Using the Learning Continuum along with various other resources, lessons can be designed for students who are Ready for Instruction Today

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How much time is taken for the students?

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A:  The test is not timed.  How long would you be able to focus on a test?  It is recommended that students in K-2 spend 20 minutes before taking a well deserved break.  Know how to suspend a test.
In grades 4-8th you may want to allow for 60 minutes. It's knowing your students though.

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A: The test is on line and adaptive. This means that as the students completes the question correctly, the questions move up in level. The inverse is true for wrong answers. The computer continually levels the student. 50% correct is the goal. Your students need to understand this and have a growth mindset because they will be challenged with items they do not know.

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What age level do you test? Is K involved?

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A: MAP Assessment is K-8. Some use the screener at the end of PreK to see where students are.

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Homeschool families looking for options to use MAP Growth
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There is no shortage of formative assessment strategies, techniques, and tools available to teachers who use formative instructional practice in their classrooms. Here is an extensive list of 75 digital tools, apps, and platforms that can help you and your students use formative assessment to elicit evidence of learning. We didn't just add any old tool to this list. Here are the criteria we used for those that made the cut:

Supports formative instructional strategies and ways to activate learners to be resources for themselves and peers

Is free or awful close to it (under $10 per year, where possible)

Allows both students and teachers to take the activator role when possible (sometimes teachers need to get things started)

Before you dig into the tools, I encourage you to spend some time thinking about exactly what you want to accomplish with your students. "How to pick the right digital tool: Start with your learning goal" by Erin Beard can help you wrap your head around goals and guide you in choosing the best tool for the task. "27 easy formative assessment strategies for gathering evidence of student learning" can help you decide what strategies work best for you and your students.

Record audio and video

Create quizzes, polls, and surveys

1. Crowdsignal Lets you create online polls, quizzes, and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers, and information can be culled for reports.

2. Edulastic Allows you to make standards-aligned assessments and get instant feedback.

3. FreeOnlineSurveys Helps you create surveys, quizzes, forms, and polls.

4. Gimkit Lets you write real-time quizzes. And it was designed by a high school student!

5. Kahoot! A game-based classroom response system that lets you create quizzes using internet content.

6. MicroPoll Helps you create polls, embed them into websites, and analyze responses.

7. Naiku Lets you write quizzes students can answer using their mobile devices.

8. Obsurvey Designed to make surveys, polls, and questionnaires.

9. Poll Everywhere Lets you create a feedback poll or ask questions and see results in real time. Allows students to respond in various ways. With open-ended questions, you can capture data and spin up tag clouds to aggregate responses.

10. Poll Maker Offers unique features, like allowing multiple answers to one question.

11. ProProfs Helps you make quizzes, polls, and surveys.

12. Quia Lets you create games, quizzes, surveys, and more. Access a database of existing quizzes from other educators.

13. Quizalize Helps you create quizzes and homework.

14. Quizizz Guides you through designing quizzes and lets you include students in the quiz-writing process.

15. Quizlet Lets you make flashcards, tests, quizzes, and study games that are mobile friendly.

16. Survey Hero Designed to build questionnaires and surveys.

17. SurveyMonkey Helpful for online polls and surveys.

18. SurveyPlanet Also helpful for online polls and surveys.

19. Triventy Lets you create quizzes students take in real time using individual devices.

20. Yacapaca Helps you write and assign quizzes.

21. Zoho Survey Allows you to make mobile-friendly surveys and see results in real time.

Brainstorm, mind map, and collaborate

Present, engage, and inspire

Generate word or tag clouds

1. EdWordle Generates word clouds from any entered text to help aggregate responses and facilitate discussion. Word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.

2. Tagxedo Allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogues.

3. Wordables Helps you elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic.

4. WordArt Includes a feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to websites, including YouTube.

Get real-time feedback

Foster family communication

1. Remind Lets you text students and stay in touch with families.

2. Seesaw Helps you improve family communication and makes formative assessment easy, while students can use the platform to document their learning.

3. Voxer Lets you send recordings so families can hear how their students are doing, students can chat about their work, and you can provide feedback.

Strengthen teacher-to-student or student-to-student communication

Keep the conversation going with live chats

1. Yo Teach A backchannel site great for keeping the conversation going with students.

2. Chatzy Supports live, online chats in a private setting.

Create and store documents or assignments

1. Google Forms A Google Drive app that allows you to create documents students can collaborate on in real time using smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

2. Piazza Lets you upload lectures, assignments, and homework; pose and respond to student questions; and poll students about class content. This tool is better suited for older students as it mimics post-secondary class instructional formats.

Learn more

There are several resources for learning more about formative assessment and responsive instruction strategies. Consider our formative practices workshops, where school and district teams can gain a better understanding of the role formative practice plays in instruction and the four foundational practices to use in the classroom. Or for a quick start, download our eBook "Making it work: How formative assessment can supercharge your practice."

Jump in, try new tools and methods, and have fun!

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Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

RI: Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12

9-10: 9th & 10th Grades

1:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

RI: Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-\x80\x9312

9-10: 9th & 10th Grades

2:
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course
of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific
details; provide an objective summary of the text.

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Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

W: Writing Standards 6-12

9-10: 9th & 10th Grades

2d:
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas,
concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective
selection, organization, and analysis of content.

a. Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to
make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g.,
headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to
aiding comprehension.

b. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended
definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples
appropriate to the audience'\x80\x99s knowledge of the topic.

c. Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text,
create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and
concepts.

d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the
complexity of the topic.

e. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to
the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports
the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or
the significance of the topic).

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Thought starters

1. How does Mr. McComb use success criteria to help students be more self-directed in their learning while making progress towards the standards?

2. What structures and supports does Mr. McComb have in place to ensure students are engaged and productive during the workshop?

3. How does Mr. McComb formatively assess students during and after the the workshop?

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As students head back to school this fall, parents are breathing a big sigh of relief as another summer is safely tucked away. As a former teacher, however, however, I remember this moment. It's go-time! Beyond getting back into the teaching rhythm, teachers need to start thinking about the best ways to prepare their students for fall testing, as many schools will soon be delivering a MAP® Growth™ assessment. Here are five things for teachers to consider as they prepare for MAP Growth testing this fall.

1. Consider what kind of information to send home to parents. Involving parents in the testing process is smart. Check out this short video that teachers can play for parents introducing them to MAP Growth and what it measures. On NWEA Connection, our user community, we have letters intended for parents that you can customize with your own school logo. These letters give a brief overview of MAP Growth and some context for when reports are sent home later. On our website, check out the section dedicated to providing Resources for Parentsor download the Parent's Guide to MAP (available multiple languages here).

2. Check out the Student Profile Report to make the most of MAP Growth data. The Student Profile Report is a great tool for teachers to visualize and quickly understand student test data (the brief overview on this page, "Reports Designed for Insight," demonstrates the report highlights). In addition, the Achievement Status and Growth report is an excellent starting point for looking at predicted growth for students from term to term (fall to winter, winter to spring).

3. Understand which students still need to be tested. The Test History Search will allow you to find our which students have suspended or not started testing. To access this report, you will need to be assigned as a proctor. For other rostering questions go to the Roster and Data Help Center (login required).

4. Be sure to check out the Norms. Educators use the RIT Scale Norms to compare students nationally based on their achievement status and changes in growth. MAP Normative Data for 2015can be found on our website.

5. Understand the accessibility and accommodation features inherent with MAP Growth. We are committed to making our products accessible for all Various accommodations and accessibility features for MAP Growth assessments ensure that all students can benefit from assessment activities.

Practice tests are also available and provide the same access and functionality as real MAP Growth tests. The practice tests are available from the warmup link on the student login page. While taking a practice test, students will be able to familiarize themselves with tools such as the highlighter and calculator. Using third-party software, students can also practice with the screen reader, magnification, and color contrast tools.

We also offer Accessibility tests that are compatible with Job Access with Speech (JAWS), enabling students with visual impairments to take the MAP Growth test. For a complete rundown of item aids, test aids, accessibility and accommodations, learn more with our Accessibility and Accommodations FAQ.

Another resource worth reviewing prior to testing is a post we shared in August - Seven Things to Communicate to Students Before Testing. Finally, we created a classroom poster of testing tips to share with students (log in to our community to download).

Good luck this fall, and here's to a great school year!

Jean brought over 25 years of experience in education to her role at NWEA. She began as a middle school reading teacher in 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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