MAP Assessments
How to maximize your results
How Does MAP help
Utilizing data to help inform instructional
decisions
 Differentiating instruction to better meet
student needs
 Grouping students flexibly for more effective
instruction
 Evaluating programs and curriculum for
effectiveness
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Class Reports by RIT Score
This report presents a visualization of how
students are performing.
 MAP tests are adaptive and test items are
based on student performance, not age or
grade, so a score means the same thing.
 A 3rd grader who received a score of 210
and a 4th grader who received a score of
210 are learning at the same level. This
allows growth to be measured
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How to use the RIT Charts
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Find the column containing the
student’s score for a particular
reporting area.
◦ For example, if the student’s reading
score in “Literature” is 188, refer to the
column labeled 181–190.
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Read down the column to locate a
sample test question for a given
reporting area, such as “Literature.”
◦ A student’s score suggests that,
currently, the student is likely to get
about half of the questions of this
difficulty correct.
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Now look at the questions in the
column(s) to the left.
◦ The student is likely to get most of
these correct, assuming he or she has
been instructed in these skills and
concepts.
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The questions in the column(s) to the
right will probably require new
learning on the student’s part.
Teacher Activity
Investigate a Class
1. What subject, grade, and season is this
report?
2. Which student has the highest RIT score?
3. Which student has the lowest RIT score?
4. Which student has the median RIT score?
5. Which goal area has the highest mean?
6. Which goal area has the lowest mean?
Grade Level Connection
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Highest RIT score = what grade level?
Lowest RIT score = what grade level?
Median RIT score = what grade level?
How many and which scholars are three
points or more from the grade level
median (this group should be your
immediate focus)?
Standard Deviation
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Look at the goal strands on your
Class Report by RIT Score.
If you have double-digit standard deviations,
you may consider differentiated instruction.
Higher standard deviations mean that your
students have a wide variety of academic
capability in that performance goal area.
If you have a single digit standard deviation,
whole group instruction may be appropriate.
What is Needed to Differentiate
Lesson Using MAP Score?
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RIT Score Chart
◦ Unique to each teacher based on their class
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Descartes Packet
◦ Subject specific
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Ladder Document
◦ Template for your differentiation by readiness
Descartes
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MAP also provides reports of Class
breakdown by Overall RIT Score and by
Goal in an interactive format linked to
DesCartes.
Descartes
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DesCartes can be used to access the
Skills and Concepts to Enhance, Skills
and Concepts to Develop, and Skills
and Concepts to Introduce to
individual students or your class as a
whole.
How to Access Descartes
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Go to http://www.nwea.org/
Left click Log on to the Reports Site
Fill in this information:
◦ User Name
◦ Password
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A screen with school, term, teacher and
class will appear.
Left click submit. On the left side of the
screen, scroll down to Instructional
Resources
Left click on Class by RIT
How To use Descartes
Click on the student's name to retrieve a PDF file
containing the Learning Continuum list of skills that
corresponds to the goal RIT range for the associated
goal.
 Click on the Goal name to retrieve a PDF file that
contains the Learning Continuum pages for each RIT
range for that goal.
 Click on the <all students in cell> link to retrieve a
PDF file listing all the students within the cell and
corresponding Learning Continuum pages for that
RIT range and goal.
 The score in parentheses by the student's name (i.e.
Name (219) represents their overall RIT score for this
subject.
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Descartes
The column on the left,
Skills and Concepts to
Enhance, includes those
skills and concepts that
students may need
continued
reinforcement, support,
and enhancement to
maintain.
In the center column,
Skills and Concepts
to Develop, are those
skills and concepts the
students are ready to
learn.These include
skills and concepts
that teachers may
want to include in
current classroom
instruction.
The column on the right,
Skills and Concepts to
Introduce, includes skills
and concepts that
students might be ready
to learn if the appropriate
groundwork is laid or if a
task is presented in a
more structured format.
Reports
The Achievement Status and Growth
Summary or Target Report (ASG
Report).
 This report will help you determine
what your students RIT score goal is for
the winter and spring.
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Class Report
Class by RIT
Click on subjects to break down into goal
areas.
 Click on a student's name to retrieve a PDF
file containing the Learning
 Continuum list of skills that corresponds to
the goal RIT range.
 Click on the Goal name to retrieve a PDF
file that contains the Learning
 Continuum pages for each RIT range for that
goal.
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RIT
Range
Specific Goals
Scholars are placed
in each goal based on
Their RIT scores
With your Grade Level….
Look a class by RIT scores.
 Place scholars according to RIT scores –
use the ladder worksheet
 Look at DesCartes to determine the skill
levels for each group.
 Create goals using skills level DesCartes
so each group is on the same skill.
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Student Comprehension by Lexile
Students can be matched to a Lexile measure
through a variety of testing methods.
 A student’s Lexile measure is represented by a
range of 150 points. The lower end of that range
represents the level at which the student is able
to read independently. The upper end of the
range represents the student’s instructional
reading level, a level at which the student is likely
to need assistance and guiding.
 The Lexile Analyzer is an excellent tool to use to
check the lexile of a text
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What is Lexile?
The Lexile Range, is the difficulty range of
text that can be understood 75% of the
time by the student.
 Encourage your students to choose
books that fall in their Lexile Range.
 The Lexile framework does not address:
age appropriateness, interest, text support
(pictures), or text quality.
 It looks only at text difficulty.
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Resources
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/
studentlinks/map/ (math skills)
 http://www.fortheteachers.org/differentiat
ion_framework.htm (grouping strategies
and ideas)
 http://www.prepdog.org/
 https://sites.google.com/a/wfsd.k12.ny.us/n
wea/map-reading-activities
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