Transcript Northwest Evaluation Association

Glenview School District 34
Parent’s Guide to Measures of
Academic Progress
MAP
NWEA-MAP-ALT???
NWEA
Northwest Evaluation Association
MAP
Measures of Academic Progress
Computerized
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ALT
Achievement Level Tests
Paper/Pencil
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Design
of Measures
of Academic
Design
of Achievement
Level
Progress
Tests(MAP)
(ALT)
 Challenging, appropriate and
•dynamically
Challenging
and for
developed
appropriate
every
student for every
studentdata for students
 Accurate
the scale
•across
Assesses
what we teach
 •Untimed
Untimed
 Purpose is internal
• Purpose is internal
accountability
accountability
 Measures growth in student
•achievement
Measures growth in
student achievement
 Immediate
results
 Can test up to 4 times a year
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Adult Reading
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5th
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Beginning Literacy
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RIT (Rasch Unit) Scale
• Achievement scale
• Equal interval
• Used to show growth
over time
• Scale has the same
meaning regardless of
the students’ grade
level or items taken
Adult Reading
MAP Test
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5th
Grade
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Beginning Literacy
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Instructional Level
• The NWEA test is not a test for
determining mastery of skills.
• It provides a road map for students
toward achieving mastery.
This test provides the
instructional level of the student.
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Talking to Students Before
Testing
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Purpose – to find out exactly where each
of them are performing
Not expected to know the answer to
every question
Must answer every question – cannot skip
Cannot go back (because of adaptive
nature of test)
Need to know how to use a pop-up
calculator and scroll bar
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Never use only one point of data
Triangulation
Local & State
Assessments
Teacher
NWEA
Data
(Classroom
Assessment)
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Individual
Student
Progress
Report
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What does “Goal Performance” mean?
• Goal scores are percentiles based on the
entire group of students in the norming study
at each student’s grade level.
• They tell how a given student compares with
others in this whole group.
• For example, if a student is at the 70th
percentile, it means that 70% of the students
in that grade level scored lower than this
student.
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Goal Score Descriptors
• Hi = Percentile scores greater than 66
• Av = Percentile scores between 66 and 34
• Lo = Percentile scores less than 34
• Hi > 80 percentile
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Student
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Progress
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Reports
only •
HiAvg = 61-80 percentile
Av = 41-60 percentile
LoAvg = 21-40 percentile
Lo < 21 percentiles
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NOTE: If
using goal
descriptors,
they ARE
grade
dependent
RIT not grade level dependent
Percentile – grade level dependent
(NWEA norm)
What are
expected RIT and
growth scores?
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Monitoring Growth in Student
Achievement
Reading Achievement and Growth
Mean Growth
Fall
Spring
2
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177.7
188
186.6
2
Fall to
Spring
14.9
3
191
188.7
199
197.2
3
10.4
14.1
11.9
4
200
198.0
206
204.3
4
7.4
10.7
7.6
5
207
205.2
212
210.3
5
6.3
8.0
7.0
6
212
210.5
217
215.2
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5.3
6.1
5.3
7
216
214.4
221
218.9
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4.3
5.3
4.3
8
220
218.3
225
222.8
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4.2
4.6
4.3
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221.0
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224.2
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2.9
3.8
3.0
10
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223.1
226
224.3
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2.6
3.6
3.3
Grade Median
Mean
Median
Mean
Ending
Grade
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Fall to
Fall
Spring to
Spring
n/a
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Responding to Negative Growth
Questions to ask yourself…
• Is this a Spring to Fall issue?
• How much data do we have? Is this one or two data points?
• Did the student top out of the test? For the majority of the kids
this will not be true.
• How does the data match other data you have about the child?
• What might be some reasons for the student’s performance at a
given point in time? Upset? Test Anxiety?…
• Are there things that you know about the situation that could
account for the lack of growth?
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Responding to Negative Growth
Questions to ask yourself…
• Is this a pattern that you see in other subject areas?
• As you look at the student’s performance in this area, what do you
see in the goal data?
• Is this a particular student’s pattern or did it show up in other
kids?
• Are we challenging these kids appropriately? Is instruction
differentiated enough?
• Is it a curriculum issue?
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A Lexile is…
A unit for measuring text difficulty that is
linked to the RIT score, Northwest Evaluation
Association’s unit for measuring reading
comprehension.
These links allow teachers to use the
student’s RIT score to find books,
periodicals, and other reading materials that
will be appropriately challenging for each
student.
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What Lexile measures…
•Semantic Difficulty
– As measured by the frequency with which
each word in a measured text appears in
Lexile’s database of 200 million words.
•Syntactic Complexity
– As measured by sentence length.
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The Lexile doesn’t evaluate…
• Genre
– Students moving to a new genre may need more teacher support to read
effectively.
• Theme
– A low Lexile score doesn’t mean the book’s theme is appropriate for children.
Emerging adult readers want to read adult content, not children’s books, so
teachers need to consider them when using Lexile with adults.
• Content
– Students encountering content or topics that are new to them may need to
have new vocabulary and concepts pre-taught.
• Interest
– Students will tend to be more motivated when they can self-select reading
material. Teachers should also encourage students to constantly expand
their interest and read material that builds reading competence.
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The Lexile score
represents…
NWEA
RIT
205
Lexile
600
…the level of text that a student
can read with 75%
comprehension. For a student
with a RIT of 205, books with a
600 Lexile provide an excellent
match with the student’s
instructional level.
The book, After the Rain by
Norma Mazer is a 600L text.
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Lexile Uses
• Teachers can use Lexiles along with professional judgment to
help students choose appropriate challenge levels
• Helpful to parents in choosing appropriate reading materials
• Put together books to accompany theme units that meet all
students challenge level. Example:
– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Matern – 390L
– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Suter – 440L
– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain – 990L
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Lexile Resources
www.lexile.com
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Questions
[email protected]