Making Use of the
MPG Skills
Checklist
Presenter: Tricia Cummings
June 22, 2010
What is MAP® for Primary
Grades?
Early Assessments for Reading and
Math
MAP® for Primary Grades are diagnostic
and computerized adaptive
assessments in reading and
mathematics, specifically tailored to the
needs of early learners.
Using these tests, teachers can:
1. Assess achievement levels of early learners
so they can spend more time teaching and
less time administering individual diagnostic
tests.
2. Provide rich information to begin guiding a
student's academic career thereby
increasing the chances for early academic
success.
3. Identify the needs of all primary students and
inform individualized instruction.
4. Encourage student participation with
engaging test items.
MAP for Primary includes:
 Early Literacy and Numeracy, which provide a
quick reference for gauging student readiness for
reading and mathematics instruction.
 Skills Checklists, which provide teachers with a
way to continually assess student's achievement
relative to the skills of phonological awareness,
phonics, number sense, and computation.
 Survey with Goals in Reading and Mathematics,
which produce immediate overall scores, as well
as scores within each goal area.
Screening Tests:
 Measure the foundational skills of
letter and number understanding.
 Include a reading test that covers
letter recognition, sounds, and
concepts of print.
 Include a mathematics test that
covers concepts of numbers.
Screening Assessments
Diagnostic tests with results reporting in number correct.
This type of assessment is most often
administered one-on-one as beginning
students enter school. Gathering this
information one-on-one takes considerable
teacher time for the assessment and the
reporting tasks. Using the Screening
assessments to gather the information
should be more efficient and return hours
of valuable instructional time to the
teachers.
PRI-READ Screening (Early Literacy)
(2 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1 good job
item)
 Phonological Awareness: Matching Sounds,
Rhyming, and Manipulating Sounds
 Visual Discrimination/Phonics: Visual
Discrimination, Letter Identifications, and Matching
Sounds to Letters
 Concepts of Print: Understanding, Pre-Reading
Behaviors, Orientation to the Page, Identify
Title/Author, and Counting Words
PRI-MATH Screening (Early Numeracy)
(3 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1 good job
item)
 Rote Counting-Counts to a number
 One-to-One Correspondence 1-10, 11-20
 Matches and Identifies Numerals 1-10, 11-20
 Identifies Numbers of Objects-More/Fewer
 Computes with Manipulatives-Moving Objects
 Computes with Manipulatives-Numerical Answer
Checklist Tests
 Allow the teacher to select specific Skills
Checklist tests based on the desired
content focus and sequence.
 Include reading tests, which cover
phonological awareness, phonics and
upper and lower case letter recognition.
 Include mathematics tests, which cover
number sense and computation.
Skills Checklist Assessments
Diagnostic tests with results reported in both percent and number correct
 PRI-READ-Skills
(Refer to Test Name List)
 PRI-MATH-Skills
(Refer to Test Name List)
Skills Checklist Assessments
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Use as a Pre-Assessment
Use as a tool to create flexible groups
Use as a Post Assessment
Use data to share at Parent
Conferences
MPG Skills Checklists:
 Define flexible groups for instruction
 Personalize instruction
 Link test results to skills and concepts
aligned with state standards
 Evaluate reading materials
 Facilitate goal-setting and student
learning plans
Survey with Goals Tests
Adaptive tests with results reported in RTI scores
 Provide both an overall RIT score and goal score ranges to
aid in the identification of a student's instructional levels.
 Measure academic growth as early as pre-kindergarten.
 Include reading tests, which cover phonological awareness,
phonics, concepts of print and vocabulary, word structure,
comprehension, and writing.
 Include mathematics tests, which cover problem solving,
number sense, computation, measurement and geometry,
statistics, probability, and algebra.
Survey with Goals Assessments
Adaptive tests with results reported in RIT scores
Two Reading Assessments
 PRI-READ-Survey w/Goals (PhonAware, Phonic,
ConPrnt)
 PRI-READ-Survey w/Goals (Vocab,
Comprehension, Writing)
Two Mathematics Assessments
 PRI-MATH-Survey w/Goals (PrSolv, NumSense,
Comp)
 PRI-MATH-Survey w/Goals (Meas/Geo, Stat/Prob,
Alg
Reading-Survey with Goals
Assessments
 Phonological Awareness, Phonics,
Concepts of Print
(4 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1
good job item)
 Vocabulary and Word Structure,
Comprehension, & Writing
(4 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1
good job item)
Mathematics-Survey with Goals
Assessments
 Problem Solving, Number Sense,
Computation
(4 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1
good job item)
 Measurement/Geometry,
Statistics/Probability, Algebra
(4 familiarization items, 30 test items, 1
good job item)
Survey with Goals Assessments
The two Reading test segment scores
and two Mathematics test segment
scores, respectively, are combined to
give a single RIT score in each
measurement scale for the student.
Once your test results are in, it's
time to put them to work.
This RIT score can be used with the
Primary Grades Instructional Data to
group students for differentiated
instruction, develop curriculum and
diagnose individual student
instructional needs.