NWEA MAP Presentation: Palmer Park Preparatory Academy Mrs. Davis
1. Climbing to Success
with
Data
Creating a Culture of Data at P3A
Using MAP Data to Measure Growth and Set Goals
March26, 2014
Angelita Davis, MikkiZackary and Renae Williams: Presenters
Palmer Park Preparatory Academy
Data Dialogue
2. Objectives
• Explore the Districts Mandated MAP Assessment
• Set Classroom Goals for all student, focusing on
the bottom and top %
• Ideas and resources for Student Data Binders
• Web 2.0 Resources that target the Deficient
• Parent Reports
• Teacher training Resources
(knowlegeacademy.nwea.org, free
webinars, Quick Reference, and Spark community
etc.
4. MAP Understanding The
What and Why
• Measures of Academic Progress
• Purpose
Identifies instructional level of each student
Monitors academic growth
Adjust instruction to fit the instructional level of
the student
Engage students
Students understand what their scores mean and have
a target to shoot for on the next assessment
5. MAP is a
Norm & Criterion Reference Test
• A norm referenced test gives “%-ile” scores. A
criterion referenced test, like STAR, gives
levels of achievement
(advanced, proficient, basic, etc.) based on
actual skills a student has achieved, rather
than comparison to a group of other students.
• NWEA gives both.
6. Locating the Sweet Spot
• The test will continue adapting items, to find
the student’s “sweet spot”. It is the goal to get
to the point where students are 50% correct
and 50% incorrect.
• MAP gives teachers a more accurate
assessment of where students are
academically, especially for those students at
the extreme end of the scale.
7. What Is RIT
• RIT is the measurement used by the MAP testing
system
• Student scores are reported as a RIT, which is an
acronym for Rausch Instructional Unit.
• Map suggests looking at it as “Ready for
Instruction Today”
– Higher the student RIT Score the less growth you will
see
– Lower the student RIT Score the more room they have
to grow
8. RIT Scale
• The RIT scale is equal intervals
– A 3 point RIT growth represents the same growth
no matter where the student fall on the RIT scale
and no matter what grade they are in
Example : A RIT scale of 175 for a 3rd grader maybe the
same score for an 11th grader.
9. Student Expected Growth
• A student’s expected growth depends on what
RIT score they received. The higher the student is
on the RIT scale, the less growth you will see.
The lower they are, the more room they have to
grow.
• Example, you measure a 3rd graders physical
height in the doorway and measure an 11th
grader’s physical height. You expect the 3rd
grader to grow more because he/she has more
room to grow.
22. Developing an Student Action Plan
• Goals without an action plan are just wishful
thinking
https://nwea.adobeconnect.com/_a203290506/cgicalculator/
Conditional Growth Index Calculator
https://nwea.adobeconnect.com/_a203290506/snc/
Norms School Calculator
RIT stands for Rasch unIT, which is a unit of measure that uses individual item difficulty values to estimate student achievement. Example Measuring a third grader at the door vs. measuring an 8th grader