Measures of Academic Progress
Interim Assessments
for Grades K – 12
Your comprehensive
guide to MAP
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Standards alignment
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ALIGNED TO INDIVIDUAL
STATE STANDARDS
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Grades, and MAP for Science
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CORE STATE STANDARDS
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ALIGNED TO NATIONAL
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LINKING STUDIES FOR
PREDICTING PROFICIENCY
MAP and MAP for
Primary Grades
MAP empowers
educators to identify:
• Students in need of intervention
• Talented and gifted students
• Students requiring targeted instruction
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• Students ready to group by ability
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It’s all about growth. And we see tremendous
growth every year, which is wonderful. We’ve taken
MAP and we’ve used it to the point of excellence.
Dean Cunningham, Principal, Nenahnezad Community School, New Mexico
Contents
OVERVIEW OF MAP ASSESSMENTS. ...................................................4
Measure growth to support every student’s unique learning path..........................................5
Inform K – 12 instruction with MAP.............................................................................................8
MAP subjects and standards...........................................................................................................9
VALID, RELIABLE DATA................................................................... 12
Identify each student’s performance level with pinpoint precision....................................... 13
Compare and contrast student performance with MAP Norms............................................. 18
THE BENEFITS OF MEASURING GROWTH........................................ 20
Accelerate growth with actionable data..................................................................................... 21
MAP assessments and rigorous new standards......................................................................... 24
Drive growth with MAP: six powerful approaches.................................................................... 28
MAKE THE MOST OF MAP DATA...................................................... 31
Empower educators with professional learning....................................................................... 32
Extend your data to promote individual learning ................................................................... 36
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Overview of
MAP Assessments
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Measure growth to support every
student’s unique learning path
Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) K – 12 interim assessments provide essential
information about a student’s continuum of learning and growth trajectory. Discover why
educators around the globe trust MAP to deliver instructional insights that help them accelerate
student learning.
The many uses of MAP data
MAP assessments provide real-time information that helps teachers teach,
students learn, and administrators lead.
TEACHERS
Personalize instruction in order to maximize every student’s academic growth.
PRINCIPALS
Track the achievement and growth of individual students and classrooms in order
to help evaluate the success of programs.
EDUCATIONAL LEADERS
Understand the progress of every student, classroom, and school in your district.
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Discover data that help you make a difference in every
student’s learning and growth
To quickly reveal the precise achievement of every student, use our computer adaptive MAP
interim assessments. Based on over 30 years of solid research, MAP adapts to each student’s
learning level, creating personalized assessment experiences.
Within 24 hours of assessing, you’ll have essential information about what your K – 12 students
know—and are ready to learn—on rigorous new state standards.
“
A MAP assessment is different because it is student-centric. It’s not about external
accountability to the state. It’s not about test prep for a college entrance exam. It’s focused
on accurately reflecting a student’s achievement and instructional level. Using MAP test
results for differentiation, flexible grouping, feedback, and resource alignment help us
accelerate students’ learning.”
— Steve Petros, Assessment Specialist, Grand Rapids Public Schools, Michigan
The unique design of MAP produces
valid, reliable student growth data
• Inform in-the-moment instructional practices.
• Measure the growth of every student over time regardless of on, above, or below grade level
performance—and even if standards change.
• Engage students and families with goal setting.
• Create and reinforce evidence-informed instructional practices.
• Evaluate programs and identify professional development needs.
• Compare and predict student achievement and growth over time via exclusive normative and
growth information.
Test in fall, winter, and spring for a consistent longitudinal measure of student growth. It’s an
ideal way to get a clear picture of your students’ learning, proficiency, and college readiness
regardless of whether scores on your state summative assessment show drops in proficiency.
Each year, educators around the globe trust MAP data to deliver instructional insights that help
them accelerate student learning for nearly eight million students. Read on to learn more about
how MAP student growth data can help you support each of your students’ unique learning paths.
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How we offer MAP users support at every step
Our by educators, for educators heritage drives us to create and maintain great experiences for
those who partner with us. No matter how new or long-term the relationship, choosing NWEA
means gaining our focused attention.
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Enjoy resources hand-picked for educators.
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Lay a strong foundation for student success.
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Inform K – 12 instruction with MAP
MAP delivers powerful student growth data when educators need them the most—when there’s
still time to make a difference. Use its real-time data to create targeted instructional plans.
Benefit from its ability to track every student’s growth and achievement within and across the
years. And see how its valid, reliable results support growth measurement and benefit students,
teachers, and parents.
“
NWEA is the absolute backbone to our success. NWEA and MAP helped us begin
our journey towards data analysis and creating a culture of data. We have worked together
to embrace the use of data to drive instruction, and by doing that, we have achieved great
results with student performance.”
— Joseph Powers, Superintendent, Crawford AuSable School District, Michigan
Quick facts
ASSESSMENT TYPE Computer adaptive interim assessment
GRADE RANGE MAP for Primary Grades: K – 2; MAP: 2 – 12; MAP for Science: 3 – 9
STRUCTURE Cross-grade; provides measurement of students who perform on,
above, and below grade level
SUBJECTS MAP for Primary Grades: reading and mathematics; MAP: reading,
language usage, and mathematics (includes Spanish-language version
of MAP Mathematics); MAP for Science: life, earth, and space sciences
RECOMMENDED 3-4/year (with fall, winter, spring, and summer intervals)
USE
TEST TIME Untimed; times for typical student completion follow. MAP for Primary
Grades: under 30 minutes/subject area; MAP and MAP for Science:
under 60 minutes/subject area
SCREENER USE Recognized by National Center on Response to Intervention (NCRTI)
PROFESSIONAL Initial training available online or onsite; ongoing learning available via
LEARNING onsite workshops or coaching (please refer to page 32)
OPTIONS
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MAP subjects
MAP for Mathematics, Reading, and Language Usage
(grades 2 – 12)
MAP includes three types of assessments:
• Survey with Goals: broad surveys of reading, language usage, and mathematics achievement
scored on the RIT scale
• Survey assessments: shorter versions of the Survey with Goals tests that provide overall scores
only; use to quickly place incoming students
• End of Course Mathematics tests: five tests for upper-level math students
Use MAP Survey with Goals interim assessments to uncover each student’s learning level on core
concepts and receive information you can use to promote student growth every day. Sample goal
areas include:
• Reading: Word Recognition, Structure and Vocabulary, and Reading Informational Texts
• Language usage: Craft Structure and Evaluation, Grammar and Usage, and Writing Conventions
• Mathematics: Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Problem Solving, Reasoning, and Proofs
Our five End of Course Mathematics tests allow teachers to measure students’ understanding of
specific content after a year of instruction. Please note End of Course tests aren’t pretests or mastery
tests. Content covers:
• Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2
• Integrated Mathematics 1 and 2
• Integrated Mathematics 3
MAP for Primary Grades for Reading and Mathematics
(grades K – 2)
Use MAP for Primary Grades (MPG) to gain insights that inform instructional decisions and
ensure your youngest students are on track well before high-stakes testing begins in 3rd grade.
MPG includes three types of assessments:
• Survey with Goals: broad surveys of reading and mathematics achievement scored on the RIT scale
• Screening Tests: entry level tests of pre-literacy and number skills
• Skills Checklists: brief tests of single skills such as phonological awareness, phonics, numeracy,
and computation
To help keep students immersed in the assessment experience, all include audio instructions and
engaging visuals.
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Common Core MAP for Mathematics, Reading, and
Language Usage (grades 2 – 12) and Common Core MPG
for Mathematics and Reading (grades K – 2)
Common Core State Standards use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels to reflect more rigorous
college readiness standards. We assign each MAP item with a DOK level in order to rate its
cognitive complexity.
MAP for Science (grades 3 – 9)
Support your Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) efforts with MAP
for Science, a single assessment that covers the three key domains of science: life sciences,
earth and space sciences, and physical sciences. You’ll gain in-depth understanding of your
students’ science knowledge prior to their exposure to more specialized science curricula in
upper high school. We align content to:
• state standards
• national standards established by The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Research Council’s National Science
Education Standards
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Tablet-compatible: A MAP delivery alternative
MAP supports the widespread use of tablets in U.S. classrooms with tablet-compatible versions
of MAP for iPad® and mobile devices. Administer tablet-optimized MAP assessments right in your
classrooms to free up computer labs for instruction.
“
As an assessment director, what I value most is the research incorporated into the
whole MAP system. Especially for our youngest students, MAP for Primary Grades data help
us more than any other tool with guiding grouping decisions. We have a wide variety of
abilities in each class, yet our focus is on what each individual child needs. With MAP and
MPG, we have a great deal of confidence in our decision making.”
— Elizabeth Parks, Former Director of Assessment and Research, Blue Valley School District, Kansas
Goal structures: Your state, your MAP
Goal structures, a key part of MAP assessments, differ by state and change over
time. Because individual states want to know how their students perform on
key concepts, we align all our MAP test items and goal structures to specific state
content standards—including rigorous new state and Common Core standards.
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Valid, Reliable Data
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Identify each student’s performance
level with pinpoint precision
Computer adaptive assessment
MAP tests begin with a question appropriate
for each student, then dynamically adapt
throughout the test in response to student
performance. A correct answer generates a
more difficult test item; an incorrect answer, an
easier one. This progressive refinement allows
MAP to challenge top performers without
overwhelming students whose skills are below
grade level.
Explore how MAP produces precise data that
you can use to help differentiate instruction—
and students can use to better connect with
their learning goals.
Our mature, stable, and
reliable RIT scale
When you
compare,
is it fair?
Our RIT scale and robust
national norms support your
efforts to boost every student’s
learning and growth. From a
single classroom to the entire
nation, you can compare and
contrast student performance.
See page 18 for details.
After every MAP assessment, each student
receives a score that helps illuminate what
he or she knows, is ready to learn, and is
projected to achieve. And thanks to something no other interim assessment offers—a mature,
reliable, and stable scale—you can trust that the scores you see are both accurate and fair.
How it works: MAP assessments use the RIT scale to create a grade-independent RIT score, which
indicates the level of question difficulty a given student is capable of answering correctly about
50% of the time. RIT scores help educators understand every student’s current achievement level
based on their zone of proximal development.
Regardless of the standards alignment of a particular MAP test, a given item has a single RIT value
associated with it. This underlying design of MAP tests permits RIT scores to carry the same meaning,
in terms of student ability, regardless of which test or set of standards was used to obtain them.
Additionally, the RIT scale remains continuous across grades, making it ideal to track student
achievement growth both within a school year and across adjacent school years.
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Why the RIT scale and MAP data accuracy go hand in hand: NWEA developed the RIT scale
more than 30 years ago according to Item Response Theory principles. Today, we continue to
obtain the RIT value of each test item using a rigorous calibration process that ensures our
assessments’ integrity. Before we include an item in MAP tests, we field test it with thousands of
students across the nation and calibrate it to a measurement scale to ensure accuracy.
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The computer adaptive test process. MAP tests begin with a question appropriate for each student, then
adapt throughout the test in response to student performance. Correct answers trigger a more challenging
item to be presented next; if a student misses a question, the follow-up item is easier.
“
To be honest, there was no contest. It’s the most well-researched test out there. I’m
continually impressed by the norm studies and other research NWEA publishes. I feel good
about the quality of the results. When I’m asked about the credibility of the test, I know
what I’m saying is research-based.”
— Colleen Lennon, Curriculum Specialist, Stepstone Academy, Cleveland, Ohio
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MAP and the Standard Error of Measurement (SEM). The SEM reflects the precision with which
MAP measures a student’s score. Several factors—including the match between item difficulty
and student proficiency level—influence the size of the SEM.
Each time a student responds to a MAP test item, SEM decreases. When a typical student reaches
the test’s final item, MAP has pinpointed his or her performance level. In 60 minutes or less, MAP
delivers data that let educators create real-time and targeted instructional plans.
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Standard fixed-form test data can’t match up to cross-grade, computer adaptive MAP. By adjusting the
difficulty of items up or down, MAP precisely measures a student’s current achievement, providing greater
sensitivity to detect growth over time for students of all achievement levels. Because the test is tightly
targeted, the error of measurement is very low. MAP also owes its ability to produce accurate and fair
results to something no other interim assessment offers: a mature, reliable, and stable scale.
Did you know?
Because MAP adapts to each student, its results are more precise and reliable than
fixed-form tests of comparable length.
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Standards alignment
All MAP test items have a single associated RIT value, and items are aligned to specific state or
Common Core content standards within the MAP tests. Our alignment process enables you to
meaningfully interpret student achievement.
Predictive abilities
NWEA conducts regular linking studies that analyze students’ performance on MAP as compared
to other assessments.
These include:
• state-specific linking studies that predict proficiency on state accountability assessments
• college readiness linking studies that predict college readiness for grade 5+ students as
measured by ACT® benchmarks
• linking studies that examine how MAP scores might be associated with Smarter Balanced
Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) performance level categories
We will also be conducting future linking studies to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness
for College and Careers (PARCC) summative assessment in order to predict proficiency on rigorous
new standards.
Predict students’
college readiness
Our NWEA Research team analyzed student
performance on MAP against ACT benchmarks. Their
findings: MAP scores can predict college readiness for
your grade 5+ students. You’ll find all the details in our
MAP College Readiness Benchmarks Study.
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How MAP test items graduate to
production status
By asking the right questions, our assessments create better test
experiences for students—and more accurate results for educators.
Each MAP test item must:
• measure what it claims to measure (align to a standard)
• make sense to students
• eliminate barriers and be accessible to all students—regardless of
socioeconomic status, race or ethnicity, most special needs, English
language development levels, and more
• mirror the classroom experience as closely as possible
• meet all industry standards*
*Industry standards say that a dichotomously scored item (test
question) uses clear, concise wording; contains grammatically parallel
options; lacks outlier options; and meets any other subject—and
standard-specific—requirements.
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Compare and contrast student and
school performance with MAP Norms
NWEA Research produces norms based on a nationally representative sample of MAP test
scores from over ten million students. From a single classroom to the entire nation, you can
see how each student’s performance compares to his or her peers’. You can also monitor school
performance over time and compare specific grade levels across schools or the nation.
MAP achievement and growth norms
Norms help educators see if a student is growing at an expected pace, regardless of where the
student started.
NWEA norms allow you to compare your students’ academic performance relative to:
• national achievement and growth norms
• state standards, including Common Core and other college and career readiness standards
While MAP achievement norms show you a student’s percentile ranking in a nationally
representative student population, MAP growth norms allow you to compare a student’s growth
to that of his or her academic peers. As part of our commitment to giving educators high-quality
data, we conduct regular norming that determines mean growth based on each student’s starting
position on the RIT scale and the amount of instructional time offered.
Our 2015 NWEA norming study includes students whose districts or states have adopted and
implemented the Common Core as well as those who have not. To aid your district-level decision
making, it also provides MAP status and growth norms for schools as well as students.
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Comparison Group (VCG) reporting takes leaders beyond local or regional comparisons to see
how their students are growing compared to similar student groups across the country.
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The Benefits of
Measuring Growth
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Accelerate growth with
actionable data
MAP reports provide educators a window into every student’s achievement and growth. In
addition to helping inform individual student and classroom instruction, they enable better
decision making at the programmatic level. When armed with MAP data and our comprehensive
reporting suite, you can meet students when and where they need you the most.
Use MAP reports for:
• planning individual or group instruction
• engaging students and parents
• measuring student growth and
• predicting state assessment performance
achievement
• diagnosing student strengths and
opportunities
• analyzing school or district performance
• planning school improvement
“
Without MAP, our district wouldn’t be able to as effectively measure growth for
all of its students. We would struggle to identify students in a quick way for intervention
services and for more intensive placements. MAP is an unbiased glimpse as to how
effective our standards-based curriculum is...a glimpse at where and how kids move when
experiencing the curriculum in our district.”
— David Bain, Former Director of Curriculum Instruction & Assessment,
Waukegan Public Schools, Illinois
Access reports instantly
Within 24 hours of assessing, MAP provides you with essential information about what your
K – 12 students know—and are ready to learn—on your state standards. You can access most
reports instantly, with the balance available within a day.
Your reports illuminate every student’s learning level and can serve as the basis for sound
decision making in and out of the classroom. Use them to:
• establish a student’s precise instructional level
• identify which areas to focus on for academic growth
• compare a student’s academic progress with other students in the class, grade, school, or district
• track academic growth with precision over a school year or over several years, even through
the transition to the Common Core State Standards
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Sample reports
Achievement Status and Growth (ASG) Summary with
Quadrant Chart Report
By leveraging national growth
and status percentiles, ASG
reports enable teachers and
school administrators to
quickly visualize and compare
students’ growth and
achievement. While teachers
can set the achievement
axis to see which students
perform to district or state
benchmarks, clicking on a
student in the quadrant chart
filters the report to a single
student. Teachers, schools,
and districts can view ASG
data at the class level, and
charts can show or hide
student names as desired.
Student Progress Report: Mathematics
Term/
Year Grade
Term/
Year Grade
matics Goals Performance - Fall 2012-2013
and Complex Number Systems
224-238
metry
226-241
tics and Probability
194-211
all 2012-2013
224-238
226-241
194-211
FA12
SP12
WI12
FA11
SP11
FA10
SP10
WI10
FA09
SP09
FA08
SP08
FA07
WI07
FA06
Algebraic Thinking
Algebraic Thinking
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9
8
8
8
7
7
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
3
3
217-231
FA12
SP12RIT
Growth
WI12 -3
219-222-225
223-226-229
FA11
225-228-231
SP11 3
222-225-228
218-221-223
FA10 8
219-222-225
222-225-228
SP10
212-215-218
WI10 2
212-214-217
212-215-218
FA09 8
209-212-215
205-208-211
SP09
201-204-207
9
190-193-196
FA08
192-195-198
SP08
FA07
WI07
FA06
RIT
(+/- Std Err)
RIT
(+/- Std Err)
9
219-222-225
Percentile
8Growth 223-226-229
Projection
Range
8 4 225-228-231
20-25-31
26-32-38
8
222-225-228
33-39-46
7 6 218-221-223
32-38-45
24-29-33
7 7 219-222-225
35-42-49
41-49-56
6
222-225-228
24-31-38
6 9 212-215-218
31-36-43
27-34-42
6 9 212-214-217
39-47-56
30-37-46
5 11 212-215-218
42-51-60
25-33-42
5
209-212-215
50-59-68
4
205-208-211
4
201-204-207
3
190-193-196
3
192-195-198
RIT
Growth
Percentile
Growth Projection
Range
-3
4
3
6
8
7
2
9
8
9
9
11
20-25-31
26-32-38
33-39-46
32-38-45
24-29-33
35-42-49
41-49-56
24-31-38
31-36-43
27-34-42
39-47-56
30-37-46
42-51-60
25-33-42
50-59-68
Student Progress Reports
help students and parents
deepen their engagement
in the learning process
by illustrating individual
performance over time
in various subject areas.
Together, students and
parents can review the
student’s progress in
mathematics, reading,
language usage, and science.
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Class Breakdown by Goal Report
Class Breakdown Reports
help teachers and school
administrators recognize
and respond to academic
diversity within the
classroom. Useful data
include the distribution
of student scores for all
subjects and schools tested.
Teachers can drill down
from student names and
access detailed information
about specific skills and
concepts students and
groups of students are
ready to learn.
Projected Proficiency Summary Report: Mathematics
Projected Proficiency Summary Report
Aggregate by District by Grade
Term:
District:
Grouping:
ematics
Projected Proficiency
Summary Reports allow
district leaders to see
systemic strengths and
weaknesses, identify
positive trends, and plan
for changes at any grade
level or school within
the district.
Projected Proficiency Summary Report
Test Name: OAA
ade
3
4
5
Student
Count
40
56
37
6
116
8
101
7
Aggregate by District by Grade
Term:
District:
Fall 2014-2015
NWEA Sample District (PdM
Combo)
None
Grouping:
Mathematics
Limited
Count
Percent
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
3
8.1%
0
0.0%
132
1
0
0.0%
482
4
0.8%
Basic
Count
State Test Name: OAA
Grade
3
4
5
6
7
Student
Count
17
14
8
Total
8
17
0.8%
40
Limited
0
0
116
0
101
0
482
4
37
42.5%
Count
56
132
Proficient
Percent
3
1
25
Percent
Count
Basic
Count
0.0%
17
Count
42.5%
13
Accelerated
32.5%
Percent
32.5%
Count
Percent
4
10.0%
0.0%
14
25.0%
38
67.9%
3
0.0%
17
14.7%
44
37.9%
0.0%
11
10.9%
44
0.8%
92
19.1%
223
25.0%
8.1%
38
8
0.8%
21.6%
25
21.6%
14.7%
18
18.9%
66
18
44
18.9%
11
13
Percent
Percent
Count
Percent
4
10.0%
6
15.0%
Advanced
Count
Percent
6
15.0%
1
19
16.4%
36
43.6%
45
44.6%
46.3%
107
22.2%
67.9%
48.6%
50.0%
6
16.2%
30
22.7%
48.6%
37.9%
50.0%
44
2
1.8%
3
5.4%
31.0%
10
1
7.6%
6
1.0%
56
11.6%
19
30
43.6%
Advanced
Count
5.4%
66
10.9%
Accelerated
Percent
Proficient
5.4%
1
16.4%
36
31.0%
44.6%
1
1.0%
56
11.6%
16.2%
22.7%
45
2
10
Fall 2014-2015
NWEA Sample District (PdM
Combo)
None
1.8%
5.4%
7.6%
State Test Name: OGT
tal
92
19.1%
Basic
Proficient
46.3%
Accelerated
107
Student
Count
Count
Percent
Count
Percent
Count
Percent
Count
Percent
Count
Percent
10
52
0
0.0%
6
11.5%
32
61.5%
10
19.2%
4
7.7%
52
0
0.0%
6
11.5%
32
61.5%
10
19.2%
4
7.7%
Total
Limited
223
Grade
Advanced
22.2%
Explanatory Notes
This report shows students' projected performance on the state assessment(s) based on NWEA alignment/linking studies. Performance categories are defined by the state and are specific to each state. For any state that does not have an alignment/
linking study, NWEA uses the 40th percentile from the norming study to forecast basic proficiency and the 70th percentile to forecast proficient-plus.
Proficiency is projected from MAP assessments administered in Fall 2014-2015 to state test(s) administered in Spring 2014-2015.
Generated
© 2000-2015 Northwest Evaluation Association. All rights reserved. Common Core State Standards are provided under a public license.
© Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved.
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ade
Student
Count
Count
Limited
Percent
Count
Basic
Percent
Count
Proficient
Percent
Count
Accelerated
Percent
Count
Advanced
Percent
0
52
0
0.0%
6
11.5%
32
61.5%
10
19.2%
4
7.7%
tal
52
0
0.0%
6
11.5%
32
61.5%
10
19.2%
4
7.7%
For a complete set of sample reports, please visit NWEA.org/FeaturedReports
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MAP assessments and rigorous
new standards
MAP assessments serve a critical role as educators bridge from prior performance standards to
performance under new college and career readiness standards, Common Core standards, or
more rigorous state standards. At any stage in your transition, MAP assessment data provide
insight into students’ progress toward demonstrating evidence of their learning. They also play
a key role in terms of gap analysis, allowing you to be strategic about rewriting curricula and
instituting professional development programs.
Accurately measure growth in transitional times
• Measure instructional readiness and student growth on rigorous new standards (including
college and career, Common Core, and state-specific standards).
• Compare and predict student achievement and growth over time via research-based
normative and growth information.
• Predict your grade 5+ students’ college readiness with data that align to ACT benchmarks.
• Create and reinforce data-informed instructional practices.
• Evaluate academic programs and identify professional development needs.
The new standards and shifts in content
New standards around college and career readiness create new expectations for student learning
and instructional approaches. The changes challenge educators to discover—then close—any
gaps between old and new requirements.
These new standards ask students to:
• demonstrate greater depth of knowledge about core subjects
• use technology in their answers
• provide evidence of learning
In mathematics, standards now include a deep focus on conceptual understanding, procedural
skills and fluency, and application of skills in problem solving situations. In English language arts,
the new standards include more content-rich non-fiction and regular practice with complex text
and its academic language. The new standards also place increased emphasis on application of
critical thinking and problem solving skills in a real-world context and synthesis and integration
of knowledge and skills across domain subjects and disciplines.
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How MAP addresses the new standards
Common Core MAP reflects changes to more rigorous college readiness standards by using
the DOK system to rate the cognitive demand of each of our assessment items. Our test items
correspond to the depth and breadth of the new standards.
For those states adopting the CCSS and opting to add their own standards content, known as
Common Core + 15%, we developed CCSS + 15% MAP tests aligned to the needs of individual states.
As with all MAP assessments, Common Core MAP supports a stable, valid, and reliable measure of
student academic growth. Regardless of changes in standards, students’ Common Core MAP RIT
scores effectively measure their growth over time.
In order to use MAP data in a meaningful way, though, your instructional content must align
with the content of MAP test questions. To ensure a better match between curriculum and
assessment content, we recommend that educators implement or transition to Common Core
MAP/MPG between academic years.
RIT Reference Brochure
Our RIT reference charts show RIT scores
grouped by band ranges. For each band range,
you’ll see sample questions.
MAP and MAP for Science
NWEA.org/RITReference
Common Core MAP and MAP for Science
NWEA.org/RITReference-CC
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Technology-Enhanced Items (TEIs) in MAP
Along with test items in multiple-choice format, MAP and MPG assessments include technologyenhanced and common stimulus items. In combination, these item types help measure the
depth and breadth of student comprehension as required by rigorous new state standards,
including the Common Core. You’ll also find our scientific and graphing calculator, which allows
students to demonstrate proficiency with technology and solve higher-order problems.
Aligned to standards for 3rd grade reading, this enhanced MAP
test item has a DOK rating of 3.
Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and
paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/
third in a sequence).
Do you want a pet? Many people want pets like cats, dogs, fish, or birds. There are many different types of
pets. Some pets are just right for children. Other pets need to be looked after by an adult. Not every pet is
just for every person. Some pets need to be brushed and combed. Other pets like to be near their owners
all of the time. Some pets like to hide from everyone. People shold think about what pet they want before
they get one. Then, they are able to get the pet that is right them.
Drag the answer that tell the author’s point to the column marked “Main Point.”
Then, drag two reasons the author thinks this to the column marked “Reasons.”
Main Point
Reasons
Some pets are just right for children.
There are many different types of pets.
Some pets needed to be brushed and
combed.
Not every pet is right for every person.
People should think about what pet
they want before they get one.
Students are asked to plot points on a graph in this enhanced
MAP item aligned to 8th grade standards for mathematics. The
DOK rating for this item is 2.
Gordon can husk 3 ears of corn in 2 minutes.
Drag two points from the toolbox to the graph to show the relationship between number of
ears of corn husked and total amount of time.
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate
as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional
relationships represented in different ways. For example, compare
a distance-time graph to a distance-time equation to determine
which of two moving objects has greater speed.
This technology-enhanced mathematics item from our MPG
assessment is aligned to standards for 3rd grade mathematics.
The item has a DOK rating of 2.
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent
a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how
many more” and “how many less” problems using information
presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in
which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.
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Then, they are able to get the pet that
is right for them.
0
0
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Jon asked his friends what their favorite fruits are. 4 people chose apples,
2 people chose bananas, and 4 people chose oranges.
Make a graph showing Jon’s data. Click on the fruit to movie it to the graph.
Favorite Fruits
Apples
Bananas
Oranges
Key:
= 2 Apples
= 2 Bananas
= 2 Oranges
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MAP and the Consortia assessments
As part of their college and career readiness efforts, many states have joined one of two
Consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) or the Partnership
for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). Both require summative
assessments that will measure students’ on-grade proficiency on Common Core State Standards.
While Smarter Balanced and PARCC summative assessments will assess student understanding of
on-grade Common Core standards, Common Core MAP helps you identify instructional needs for
students performing at, above, and below grade level. By pairing MAP with your PARCC or Smarter
Balanced summative test, you’ll receive a more well-rounded view of student achievement and
growth—even if you experience proficiency level drops on your summative assessment.
During and after your transition to CCSS, you’ll find that MAP continues to fill an important need:
to provide useful, instructionally relevant, and reliable data that can measure student learning
growth during a school year, and across school years, on a stable scale.
Access the white paper, Common Core MAP: Supporting Your
Transition to the Common Core
NWEA.org/TransitionSupport
Read Better Together: How Smarter Balanced Districts Can Gain
Critical Teaching and Learning Data with MAP – Today and Beyond
NWEA.org/BetterTogether
Read A Powerful Pairing: How PARCC Districts Can Gain
Critical Teaching and Learning Data with MAP
NWEA.org/PowerfulPairing
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Drive growth with MAP:
six powerful approaches
Educators use MAP assessment data to better understand the learning needs of every student.
Here are six ways MAP data help promote a positive educational experience—and significant
student growth—throughout the year.
School and district leaders
use MAP reports to evaluate
programs and monitor school
and student performance
relative to growth, proficiency,
and norms.
District decision makers rely on
MAP reports to aid in resource
management, help determine
performance trends by grade
and school, and compare local
student achievement to the
national scale.
Teachers depend on MAP
reports to help them create
teaching strategies and provide
differentiated instruction, and to
create flexible grouping across
the classroom.
1. Differentiating instruction
Students within the same class often perform at different grade levels, and educators face the
challenge of ensuring that every child—from the highest to the lowest achievers—continues to
grow. MAP data make it easy to identify learning levels so teachers can engage in differentiated
instruction and ability grouping that leads to positive results for every student.
“
Instead of teaching to the whole class, the teachers are able to challenge them at
the appropriate level within that skill set. And MAP scores form the baseline. It’s the first of
several data points used to determine where they are instructionally on that skill.”
— Frank Reliford, Principal, Dee-Mack Intermediate School, Illinois
Read NWEA partner case studies on these topics, and more
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2. Using MAP as a Universal Screener/RTI placement tool
A foundational component to a response to intervention (RTI) system is the use
of universal screening tools that can be used to both identify those students at
risk of academic failure and inform a learning plan. Grade-independent MAP
assessments received the highest possible rating for classification accuracy and
high ratings in all other categories from the National Center on Response to
Intervention (NCRTI).
National Center on
Response to Intervention
“
Before using MAP, we were missing the full picture of how to teach kids who were
gifted and talented, or struggling to learn, or were English language learners....But now that
we know what our students are ready to learn before we even begin teaching them, growth
is inevitable—even for our gifted and talented and Title I students.”
— Linda Foote, Instructional Technology Specialist, Poway Unified School District, California
3. Evaluating programs
With tightening budgets and expanding student populations, MAP data have become a key
component in assessing the impact of specific programs. MAP scores contribute to understanding
what works, so when special programs are instituted, educators can see precisely how much
growth has occurred with participating students.
“
“
MAP gives us such rich data, such evidence of student learning and challenges, that
it lets us analyze program effectiveness in ways we couldn’t previously.”
— Mike Cady, Chief Academic Officer, Pewaukee School District, Wisconsin
4. Setting student goals
Students become more committed to the learning process when they can set goals and see
results. Using the Student Goal Setting worksheet and other NWEA tools, it’s easy for teachers
and students to build an action plan together and for parents to become engaged in the process.
Students see that they learn on a continuum. They have people around them to
talk to them about their progress, and how far they’ve come. MAP is an assessment that
is showing students here’s where you started, and here’s where you can finish, and here’s
where you WILL finish. So they feel like a success.”
— Dr. Tanya Green, Chief Academic Officer, Friendship Public Charter Schools, D.C.
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5. Predicting college readiness
To help educators build an educational foundation for college success—years in advance—our
researchers created the NWEA College Readiness Linking Study. For students in grade 5 and above,
the study conclusively shows high predictive relationships between MAP assessment scores and the
college readiness benchmarks of ACT achievement tests.
“
I would describe MAP as a valuable resource for differentiation, for measuring
student growth, and as a predictor of college readiness. We hear praise constantly from
teachers, administrators, and external partners that they value MAP more than any other
assessment that they’ve used historically.”
— Steve Petros, Assessment Specialist, Department of Assessment and Evaluation,
Grand Rapids Public Schools, Michigan
6. Projecting proficiency on state tests
MAP assessment items have a single associated RIT value. This enables NWEA Research to analyze
students’ performance on MAP as compared to other assessments; from there, they create statespecific linking studies that predict proficiency on state accountability assessments as well as
college readiness linking studies that predict college readiness for grade 5+ students as measured
by ACT benchmarks.
Future linking studies will predict proficiency on high-stakes summative assessments that cover
college and career readiness standards, including Common Core standards.
“
If we didn’t have MAP, we’d have no idea what to expect from and how to prepare
for ISTEP+ [the Indiana state-mandated test]. Teachers gain valuable insights into the
way students learn, so they can best support them in meeting growth targets and passing
important tests.”
— Barbara Campbell, Former Staff Development Coordinator, Mt. Vernon Schools, Indiana
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of MAP Data
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Empower educators with
professional learning
NWEA professional development offerings help educators create cultures where quality data
informs day-to-day teacher practice, student learning, and curriculum. See how proven
strategies—plus delivery options designed for busy lives—make it easier to do more with data.
MAP Foundation Series
WORKSHOPS
Use our MAP Foundation Series workshops to boost expertise in data-informed decision making,
support strategic planning, and improve learning outcomes for every student. Choose from three
key themes: applying reports, informing instruction, and focusing on growth. Our workshops
immerse your teachers and leaders in key issues—including how to use MAP data to support
your transition to more rigorous state standards.
How it works: Schedule a full day (six hours) to focus on one theme, mix and match two threehour modules from different themes, or collaborate with us to create a more specific plan.
MAP Administration Workshop
This training is a first step for partners new to MAP. Prepare teachers, proctors, and your leadership
team to set up your implementation for success, administer the assessment for the first time, and
use the data to optimize learning. By default, receive this content in an online format to help every
staff member get up to speed quickly. For the entire duration of your MAP license, enjoy access to
live webinars and 24/7 on-demand resources for an unlimited number of participants through our
online learning platform. Alternatively, a full-day onsite option is also available.
Applying Reports Workshop
Once you are comfortable with the basics of administering MAP, get hands-on with the rich
data in your reports in this onsite workshop. Ensure informed use of MAP data among teachers,
administrators, and instructional specialists. Gain strategies for using the reports to engage in highimpact goal setting that will help each student grow. Available three-hour modules to choose from:
• Essential Reports for Teachers
• Student Goal Setting and Growth
• Essential Reports for Primary Teachers
• Essential Reports for Administrators
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Informing Instruction Workshop
Enable teachers and instructional leaders to dive deeper into classroom applications of MAP
reports in this onsite workshop. Support differentiated instruction and meet the needs of every
student through the use of flexible groupings and instructional ladders based on your MAP
results. Available three-hour modules to choose from:
• Instructional Ladders
• Differentiated Instruction
Focusing on Growth Workshop
Once you have a full year of MAP data under your belt, help administrators and instructional leaders
explore longitudinal growth to identify significant trends, strengths, and areas of concern in this
onsite workshop. Use this analysis to set goals at all levels (district, school, grade, class, and student)
to support school or district improvement plans. Available three-hour modules to choose from:
• Investigating Growth
• District and School Goal Setting
Data Coaching
COACHING FOR MAP PARTNERS
NWEA professional development takes your unique data challenges and opportunities into
account. We’ll start by helping you analyze a wide range of your local data—including student
records, examples of student work, and results from different types of assessments. Then we’ll
hone your data strengths and work to construct and implement plans focused on making a
positive difference in student learning.
Boost your team’s data confidence to benefit every student’s academic growth
Our data coaches quickly energize and empower your teams to move beyond common barriers
to student learning.
• Grasp how to effectively use data from multiple assessments.
• Align educators’ use of data with district goals.
• Integrate assessment data into instructional and programmatic decision making.
• Build assessment literacy district-wide.
• Support teams’ transition to—and long-term success with—more rigorous state standards
(including college and career/Common Core).
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Choose from the recommended topics below or work with us to tailor a solution.
Assessment Program Alignment
Make essential connections between your assessments and the actions they inform. Our data
coaches will help you develop district-wide assessment literacy and ensure a cohesive approach
to your overall assessment plan. Participants will take stock of their assessment practices, identify
time and resource efficiencies, clarify assessment priorities, and align specific assessments with
their appropriate uses.
Data Conversations
Master constructive, practical techniques for regularly analyzing, discussing, and applying your
data. Let our data coaches help you strengthen your culture of data use. Participants will learn
to use regular, structured data conversations to systematically embed data use into instructional
decisions and organizational planning.
Goal-Focused Planning
Build comprehensive and integrated district plans centered around student learning needs.
Work with our data coaches to determine the best way to use multiple data sets to inform the
development of your professional learning, assessment choices, and instructional plans. We’ll
ensure your plans align with student needs and district goals as well as available district resources.
Destination PD
Online Learning
To make the most of MAP, take advantage of your complimentary access to Destination PD™
(formerly Knowledge Academy), our exclusive online learning platform. We’ve designed our
on-demand tutorials, recorded webinars, videos, and courses to help you create seamless
assessment experiences—and to help your teachers and leaders use MAP data to enhance
student learning and growth.
With an abundance of free resources plus supplementary resources for your paid onsite
workshops, Destination PD is your one-stop shop for 24/7 online learning from NWEA.
Whether your staff members want to spend a few minutes with a refresher tutorial or immerse
themselves in an hour-long course, any computer with internet access allows them to meet their
professional learning goals.
Support diverse staff learning needs with targeted, role-based resources
• Help sustain and extend face-to-face workshop learning for all participants.
• Provide new teachers with important information about the value of MAP for instruction.
• Give teachers tools for using MAP data to meet both daily and seasonal needs.
• Prepare proctors to offer an optimal assessment experience for students.
• Elevate prep time for Professional Learning Community (PLC) meetings with “small bite”
learning options.
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Keeping Learning on Track
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
If you’re seeking to maximize student growth and engagement while strengthening your school
community, turn to Keeping Learning on Track® (KLT™), a proven, multi-year curriculum
focused on classroom formative assessment practice. Using KLT district wide prepares all your
educators (regardless of grade level or subject area) to continuously gather evidence of student
learning, adjust classroom instruction in the moment, and build local capacity to sustain those
instructional shifts over time.
Skip the wasteful and go for WOW
KLT supplies educators with more than just practical classroom strategies: it provides a process
for applying those strategies over time.
• Rely on 100+ proven formative assessment techniques gleaned from decades of research.
• Help teachers cultivate students’ college- and career-readiness skills, including critical
thinking and problem solving.
• Complement existing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
• Receive resources and support to empower teachers to transfer new strategies into
sustained practice.
Discover how this powerful complement to MAP interim assessments helps drive student
learning minute by minute.
Plan your perfect professional learning experience
When you purchase a minimum of three days’ worth of data coaching and/or onsite MAP
Foundation Series workshops (beyond your initial required MAP Administration training),
you qualify for a Customized MAP Professional Development Package. With the customized
package, you receive planning guidance and ongoing support from a dedicated coach who
tailors professional learning to your needs, the needs of your students, and the goals of your
district; at a granular level, and within your schedule.
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Extend your data to promote
individual learning
At NWEA, we offer educators several ways to make the most of their MAP data, including the
interactive Learning Continuum, RIT to Resource, MAP to Khan Academy, and NWEA instructional
content providers.
The Learning Continuum
DISCOVER HOW THE LEARNING CONTINUUM EMPOWERS YOU TO CREATE
STUDENT-SPECIFIC LEARNING LADDERS
MAP includes our proprietary interactive tool for teachers, the Learning Continuum. Teachers
can use the Learning Continuum’s information to streamline instructional planning, differentiate
instruction for both individual students and skill-based activity groups, and better engage
students in their learning. It’s a powerful shortcut to understanding which skills students are
ready to learn.
A DATA-INFORMED CONTINUUM OF LEARNING THAT’S BASED ON
DIFFICULTY, NOT SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
The Learning Continuum lets teachers see what students performing at a given RIT level on MAP
assessments are typically ready to learn. From there, they can use the learning statements within
the continuum to drive instruction.
• Learning statements provide you with an instructional starting point by describing the
skills and concepts that are most ready to be introduced, developed, or reinforced along a
continuum of learning.
• Test and Class Views supply global and student-specific information for tailoring instruction.
• MAP RIT scores get connected to skills and concepts students are ready to learn, helping
you identify learning goals and targets so you can both share them with your students and
parents plus create more personalized lesson plans.
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CLASS VIEW: STUDENTS ORGANIZED INTO SKILL-BASED ACTIVITY GROUPS
This view groups students by RIT score bands to clearly show where students are and what
they’re ready to learn. By seeing the skills and concepts students need to develop in each goal
and sub-goal area, you can inform your decisions for grouping, differentiating instruction, and
targeted interventions.
TEST VIEW: LEARNING STATEMENTS ORGANIZED ALONG A CONTINUUM
Use this view for easy navigation through the learning statements. You’ll see skills and concepts to
reinforce, develop, and introduce with students based on their RIT score for each goal and sub-goal.
Please note: Images have been modified to demonstrate functionality. Actual in-product screens will be slightly different.
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Leverage your data with NWEA instructional content providers
To extend the benefits of MAP, NWEA partners with leading providers of electronic curriculum
and instruction. With these partnerships, MAP scores have been aligned with content so that test
results may be used to match each student with appropriate learning activities.
MAP scores are used by Compass Learning®, Study Island®, Triumph Learning™, and other
instructional content providers that offer direct supplemental instruction aligned to the students’
performance levels and needs.
NWEA also partners with MetaMetrics®. Students who take MAP Reading tests receive a Lexile®
measure correlated to the student’s RIT score, and that Lexile measure can be used by educators
to select texts appropriate to a student’s comprehension level.
MAP to Khan Academy
NWEA offers educators who use MAP complimentary access to MAP to Khan Academy. Because
MAP RIT scores correlate to free Khan Academy math practice exercises, teachers can quickly and
easily support each student’s learning path. Both students and teachers can access the no-cost
practice activities online, making them ideal for independent classroom work, skill-based small
group instruction, or at-home learning.
We’ve based the standards alignments in MAP to Khan Academy on the CCSS alignment Khan
Academy provided. Teachers whose districts aren’t implementing CCSS can relate the goals or
sub-goals on their state MAP test to similar goals and sub-goals used in these documents.
RIT to Resource
For convenient access to key MAP student performance indicators while on-the-go in the
classroom, educators can turn to RIT to Resource (RITtoResource.org).
Use this information to:
• understand how a student is performing in relation to the NWEA norm group
• identify appropriate reading materials based on a student’s Lexile range
• find appropriate resources (via provided links) whose content aligns to CCSS, then easily share
resources through email
• gain insights as to whether or not a student is on track for college readiness as measured by
the ACT benchmarks
• project how a student may perform on their state summative test
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Skills Navigator
Discover Skills Navigator®, our K – 8 skills mastery and progress monitoring tool.
• Skills Navigator can use a student’s RIT score to start assessing, honing in on the skills each
student has and hasn’t mastered
• MAP goal areas tie directly to Skills Navigator skill areas, so you can drill down to the specific
skills a student is ready to learn in any goal area
• Direct links to curated instructional resources let you differentiate instruction for
every student
• Single sign-on and roster solution streamlines all your assessment activities
Skills Navigator at a glance
ASSESSMENT TYPE
GRADE RANGE
STRUCTURE
RECOMMENDED USE
TEST TIME
PROGRESS MONITORING USE
SUBJECTS
ITEM POOL
PROPRIETARY SKILLS
FRAMEWORK
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
NUMBER OF SKILLS COVERED
Classroom
Covers K-8 skills; suitable for all grade levels working on
those skills
Cross-grade; provides measurement of students who perform on,
above, and below grade level
As often as necessary to assess skills and monitor progress
Five to 15 minutes
Designed for Tier II Response to Intervention (RTI) progress
monitoring programs
Math, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and language usage
Nearly 10,000 high-quality multiple-choice and commonstimulus items
Research-informed progression of skills built around a logical
instructional sequence, designed by NWEA education experts
Includes online instructional resources, expertly curated and
aligned directly to the skills a student needs to learn
Measures over 1,000 skills that build foundations for college and
career readiness
Learn more about Skills Navigator NWEA.org/SkillsNavigator
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Visit NWEA.org or call 866-654-3246 to find out how
NWEA can partner with you to help all kids learn.
Founded by educators nearly 40 years ago, Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) is a global
not–for–profit educational services organization known for our flagship interim assessment,
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP). More than 7,600 partners in U.S. schools, school districts,
education agencies, and international schools trust us to offer pre-kindergarten through grade 12
assessments that accurately measure student growth and learning needs, professional development that
fosters educators’ abilities to accelerate student learning, and research that supports assessment validity
and informed policy. To better inform instruction and maximize every learner’s academic growth,
educators currently use NWEA assessments with nearly 8 million students.
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