assessments for growth and mastery
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Assessments for Growth and Mastery
GRADES K –12
Gage9th Grade
MAP is the absolute backbone to our
success. We have worked together with
NWEA to embrace the use of data to
drive instruction, and by doing that,
we have achieved great results with
student performance.
JOSEPH POWERS
SuperintendentCrawford AuSable School District Grayling, MI
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The MAP® Suite shows you how to get them there.
The MAP Suite is an assessment system that’s all about
measuring what matters—so you can support growth and
skill mastery for every student. This collection of purpose-
built measures from NWEA® illuminates every student’s
learning needs, helping teachers to target instruction and
administrators to make well-informed decisions.
You See a Bright Future for Your Students...
Educators have the power to change
student lives.
Data from MAP assessments powers effective decision making.
Empowering Administrators
Quick, accurate results from MAP assessments help you support the needs of all your students.
Empowering Teachers
• Personalize instruction for individuals and groups
• Plan instruction that meets students at their level
• Engage students and parents in goal setting
• Monitor progress for struggling and advanced students
• Rely on a comprehensive assessment solution that meets your school system’s needs
• Track and compare student growth over time
• Predict performance on accountability measures
• Create effective intervention programs
A Powerful Suite to Meet Your School System’s Needs
The assessments in the MAP Suite give you a thorough picture of student learning: how much they’ve grown, what they’re ready to learn, and the specific skill gaps they need to master.
An Integrated Assessment Solution
MAP Growth
MAP Skills
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• Measuring growth
• Screening
• Planning instruction
• Differentiating instruction
• Tracking skills mastery
• Monitoring progress
• Assessing standards mastery
• Projecting proficiency
• Applying formative assessment practices
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Administer MAP® Growth™ interim
assessments up to three times a year to
get an accurate view of how much each
student has grown over time and what
students are ready to learn—so you can
plan lessons and group students for
instruction.
Use the skills mastery and progress
monitoring assessments in MAP® Skills™
as needed between MAP Growth
assessments to drill down to the specific
skill gaps each student needs to master.
MAP Skills shows you the discrete skills
that struggling students are missing
and what advanced students are ready
to take on—so you can personalize
instruction in the moment and monitor
student progress.
From system- and program-wide
decisions to individual instructional
adjustments, you can trust that you’re
basing your decisions on accurate
information from the start.
The MAP Suite measures exactly what’s
needed to give you valuable data with
maximum efficiency: no more and no
less testing than needed.
The Gold Standard of Precision and Accuracy
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Unlock a World of Potential With RITMAP Growth measures student performance with our RIT scale—the most stable, mature scale in the industry. Like inches on a ruler, it measures in equal intervals, regardless of a student’s grade or performance—and it remains stable over time.
This gives you an accurate measure of student performance, regardless of whether they’re performing on, above, or below grade level.
RIT scale
Grade level
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Use a Student’s RIT Score To
MAP assessments precisely measure the
performance of every student, whether
on, above, or below grade level—even if
standards change.
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Grade-Level Independence
• Zoom in on a student’s missing skills with MAP Skills
• Connect to a wealth of instructional resources aligned to student RIT scores
• Track longitudinal growth over a student’s entire career
• Group students for differentiated instruction based on RIT score ranges
• Inform lesson planning based on what instructional areas student RIT scores reveal them to be ready to learn
• Set growth goals with students
MAP assessments help you make instructional
decisions that support learning for every student.
The MAP Suite features multiple ways to connect
assessment data to improved instruction at
every level—from helping individual students to
evaluating programs for an entire district.
Inform Instruction at Every Level
With a host of key student data points at your fingertips, you’ll find the Student Profile report invaluable for:
The interactive Student Profile dashboard gives you a complete picture of a student’s learning in one place, making it faster and easier to differentiate instruction.
It draws on our learning continuum to show you what instructional areas the student is ready to learn. It then connects those instructional areas to specific strands of skills—making teaching time more efficient.
It’s also ideal for sharing with students and parents to set growth goals throughout the year.
Student Reports
• setting growth goals
• determining instructional areas and skills to focus on for continued growth
• assigning MAP Skills missions
• projecting proficiency on state summative tests
• tracking longitudinal growth
• seeing the skills each student has mastered and needs to learn next
• communicating with parents
Dive deep into your district’s academic performance with four premium
reports that deliver the insights you need to make program and district-wide
decisions. Tackle learning barriers, identify strengths and opportunities, and
gain a greater understanding of how to help your students succeed.
School and District Reports
At a glance, you can see how students perform, as well as how fast they
are growing. This gives you key information for instructional grouping by
class, as well as helping you see students who aren’t achieving or growing
as quickly as others. National growth and status percentiles give you a
clear visualization of where students perform to benchmarks.
Class Reports
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.
Chief Academic Officer
Pewaukee School District, WI
MIKE CADY
“Instructional ConnectionsWe collaborate with the industry’s most extensive array of instructional partners to help schools and
districts get more from tools they’re already using, like Edgenuity®, Study Island®, Carnegie Learning®,
Khan Academy, and many more. And, because MAP isn’t tied to a particular curriculum offering, you
can be sure you’re getting an independent validation of student learning.
SEE THE COMPLETE LIST OF OUR INSTRUCTIONAL CONNECTIONS AT
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MTSS and RTI SupportMAP assessments give you data you can trust to quickly identify
which students are struggling, pinpoint the skills they haven’t yet
mastered, and intervene with targeted instruction. Getting this
information when you need it enables you to create effective
strategies that support the academic needs of at-risk students. By
providing both a universal screener and progress monitoring tool,
MAP supports Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multi-Tiered
System of Supports (MTSS) programs.
Trust MAP Growth to accurately identify students in need of
academic intervention—so you can move them into the next stage
of intervention as early as possible. MAP Growth gives you quick,
accurate, and reliable data on which students need more help, and
at the same time documents student growth.
Universal Screening
You need to know more than if a student is not progressing—
you also need to know why, so you can adjust instruction
effectively. That’s why teachers and interventionists rely on MAP
Skills, a mastery measure that reveals a student’s specific skill
gaps within an instructional progression. And because you can
administer the mastery measure as needed, MAP Skills allows you
to closely and accurately monitor the effects of your targeted
instructional strategies.
Progress Monitoring
Learning Made VisibleMAP Growth is an interim assessment that reveals a
metric that truly matters: how much each student grows
over time. It’s trusted by nearly half the schools and
districts in the United States, and in over 140 countries
around the world, because it delivers timely
information that educators trust.
MAP Growth is 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.
Curriculum SpecialistStepstone AcademyCleveland, OH
COLLEEN LENNON
“INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR GROWTH
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GRADE LEVELS
SUBJECTS
Math Reading Language usage Science
TEST TIME
45 minutesUntimed. Approximately 45 minutes per subject
STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
State standardsCommon CoreNext Generation Science Standards*
ACCESSIBILITY
Refreshable braille Keyboard navigationScreen reader (JAWS) compatible MagnificationColor contrast adjustmentTest & item aidsUniversal Design for Learning (UDL)ARIA & WCAG compliantAlt-tags
GRADE-LEVEL INDEPENDENCE
Measures performance of every student, whether on, above, or below grade level—even if standards change
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FREQUENCY
Remediation
Core
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An adaptive assessment can’t yield valid results unless it draws from a pool of items deep enough to ensure:
MAP Growth has the most rigorously vetted test questions and draws from over 38,000 unique items.
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MAP Growth tests begin with a question appropriate for the student’s
grade level, 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 Growth to challenge top performers without overwhelming
students whose skills are below grade level.
Deep Item Pool
Computer Adaptive Assessments
MAP GROWTH | HOW IT WORKS
• a student won’t see the same question more than once, even with multiple test sessions per year
• there are plenty of different questions to assess performance fully
• the items measure enough depth of knowledge to determine a student’s true understanding
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How do you know if your assessment data is accurate? Meet Standard Error of
Measurement (SEM), an indicator of an assessment’s precision. It is expressed
as a range—a student’s score, plus or minus a number of points. The smaller that
number, the more precise the measurement.
Why does SEM matter? If your assessment has a high SEM, it will
misidentify the performance of students. So you may identify
students for special programs who don’t need them, or miss
others who desperately do.
MAP Growth has one of the smallest SEM ranges available, so you
can trust that you have valid data on which to base decisions.
Precision You Can Trust
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2.9
Comparative data helps you put learning in a
national context. This empowers leaders to
create lasting systemic improvements—and
increased growth for every student.
Comparisons to Drive Insights
Norms Put Performance in Context
TEACHERS USE OUR NORMS TO:
ADMINISTRATORS USE OUR NORMS TO:
• set growth goals with students
• individualize instruction
• screen for additional instructional needs
• contextualize student performance for parents
• evaluate programs and improve instruction—in individual classrooms and throughout school systems
• set achievement goals for entire schools and school systems
• inform effective staffing and resource allocation
• determine scheduling and grouping to meet student needs
Norms help you see if students are growing at an expected pace, regardless of where a student started. NWEA norms allow you to make predictions about what kind of growth is typical and atypical.
Today’s kids are vastly different than those in school ten years ago, so NWEA conducts norming studies frequently—every three years—ensuring that the comparisons reflect current standards and demographics. And we continually refine our best-in-class research model to make NWEA norms more accurate than any other—and always improving.
Three Types of Norms
Student-level achievement norms help you see your students’ percentile rankings in a nationally representative student population.
Student-level growth norms allow you to compare your students’ growth with that of their academic peers.
School-level norms provide context for comparing grade-level achievement and growth in a single school relative to other schools across the nation.
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The Most Accurate Norms
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Math Reading Language Science
NORMS PERCENTILE
> 80 High
61-80 Above average
41-60 Average
21-40 Below average
< 21 Low
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NORMS PERCENTILE
> 80 High
61-80 Above average
41-60 Average
21-40 Below average
< 21 Low
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NWEA uses anonymous assessment data
from over 10.2 million students to create
national norms, placing your students
and schools within a representative
national sample.
By drawing from an incredibly wide pool
of anonymized test records (pulled from
more than six million test events, 23,000
schools, and 49 states), we’re able to
accurately represent the US school-age
population. For even deeper accuracy,
the sample is demographically balanced,
including characteristics like urban,
suburban, and rural locations; Title I status;
gender; age; grade level; free and reduced
lunch statistics; and more.
A Truly Representative Sample Pool
Predict Performance With Linking Studies
Students who take MAP Growth reading
tests receive a Lexile® measure correlated
to the student’s RIT score. Support student
growth in reading by using the Lexile measure
to select reading material appropriate for
individual students.
You need data that meets your unique
needs—MAP Growth assessments deliver
with rigorous alignment to every state’s
individual content standards, as well as
national standards. Our alignment process
ensures that every item precisely reflects your
standards content.
Readability Scale
Standards Alignment
• Predict college readiness for grade 5+ students as measured by ACT® and SAT® benchmarks
• Predict proficiency on state accountability assessments
• Examine how MAP Growth scores are associated with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) and Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments
Identify Skill Gaps for Personalized InstructionMAP Skills is a skills mastery and progress
monitoring assessment that hones in on the
specific skills kids need to learn next. It’s well-
suited to support students on the low and
high ends of performance—helping teachers
personalize instruction for students needing
remediation or enrichment. And its engaging
interface where students can track their progress
encourages them to invest in their own learning.
Support Students Who Need It Most
Teachers can give the short MAP Skills assessments any time, as often as needed, to help them target instruction for students who need remediation or enrichment.
REMEDIATION
ENRICHMENT
SKILLS MASTERY & PROGRESS MONITORING ASSESSMENT
MAP Skills has been so great
for us because it’s an instant
snapshot of what students
know and what they need to
work on.
TeacherCICS West BeldenChicago, IL
NICOLE SWICK
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SUBJECTS
MathReading comprehensionLanguage usageVocabulary
TEST TIME
5–30 minutesVaries by subject and skills assessed
ALIGNMENT
Aligned to MAP Growth instructional areas for your standards
GRADE-LEVEL INDEPENDENCE
Accurately assesses student skills, whether on, above, or below grade level
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Core
Remediation
Enrichment
FREQUENCY
• Quickly identify the essential, building-block skills a student is missing
• Monitor student mastery of skills as often as needed
• Identify skill areas where high-performing students could be further challenged
• Track progress of high-performing students as they master additional skills
As often as needed
Skills Locator & Mastery Check
SKILLS LOCATOR:
Short assessment to identify skill gaps on,
above, or below grade level
MAP Skills has two components to identify
skill gaps and check mastery.
MASTERY CHECK:
An informative tool to assess skill mastery
The math, vocabulary, and language usage skills
within the skills framework are assessed with
over 10,000 multiple-choice items. Reading
comprehension skills are assessed with item
sets that reference a single reading passage;
this provides rich data on reading skills. All items
undergo a rigorous quality assurance process,
including bias and sensitivity, content quality,
and alignment reviews.
MAP Skills is a powerful progress monitor for
intervention programs, such as RTI and MTSS.
As a mastery measure, it tracks progressing
skill mastery that can directly inform instruction
and intervention decisions, helping teachers
understand why students may not be progressing.
10,000+ Unique Items
MAP SKILLS | HOW IT WORKS
Progress Monitoring
• Identify up to five missing skills
• Assess as often as needed to identify new skills for students to learn
• Use the student’s RIT score as a starting point to make testing more efficient
• Monitor progress and check mastery of up to five skills at once
• Quickly see if a student has achieved mastery or needs more instruction
• Also use as needed to re-test skills to check retention
MAP Skills rests on a skills framework of over 1,000 essential K–8 building-block skills.
NWEA researchers identified these skills from an in-depth analysis of state standards
from across the country, then organized them into strands of logical instructional
sequence. These strands align with MAP Growth instructional areas, making it easy to
drill down from a student’s RIT score to specific skill gaps.
Skills Framework
Understand(identify) shared attributes of quadrilaterals
Recognize various quadrilaterals including non-special quadrilaterals
Partition shapes into parts withequal areas
Express equal areas of larger shape as a unit fraction
SHAPES, ATTRIBUTES, CONGRUENCE, AND SIMILARITY
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STRANDS
SKILLS
Coaching & Consulting
On-Site & Regional Workshops
Online Learning & Communities
Classroom Practices
Our professional learning options help you
create a culture where quality data informs day-
to-day teaching practice, student learning, and
leadership decisions. Our professional learning
consultants—former educators and experts
in data coaching—give you proven strategies
to help you do more with data while creating
sustained learning that improves practice.
Flexible delivery options—including self-paced
online learning and workshops conducted on-
site, regionally, or virtually—make it easy to fit
learning into busy schedules.
Create Systemic Change for Your Schools
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Discover how to apply MAP data to your instructional and
program decisions. Our series of face-to-face and online
learning opportunities help teachers, instructional coaches, and
school leadership get the most out of MAP assessments.
Do More With Your Data
Beyond product-focused learning, we can support your goals, such as:
Or, let us design a custom workshop or data coaching plan to meet your needs.
Educators learn to apply data to improve:
NWEA Professional Learning Online offers a wide selection of self-paced content
to extend professional learning. Teachers can access learning anytime, anyplace to
refresh skills, develop new ones, and find answers whenever they need them.
Online, Anytime
Strategies to Help Teachers Support Student Learning
EXPLORE ALL THE OPTIONS:
• instructional decisions
• student learning objectives
• intervention programs
• student goal setting
• applying data to support student learning
• using effective formative assessment practices in the classroom
• creating a strong data culture
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Support at Every StepMAP assessments operate on our Comprehensive
Assessment Platform—a secure, stable system
you can trust to support your assessment needs.
The platform’s ability to handle a high volume of
students means you can test on the schedule that
meets your needs.
Powered By A Stable Platform
Capacity You Can Trust
Compatibility You Need
TECHNOLOGY AND SUPPORT
We combine the actual performance of the platform
with simulated tests to determine how many students
and tests the platform can support at any given time.
And we are continually investing in our platform to
increase capacity and power.
More than 10 million students use the Comprehensive
Assessment Platform, which can administer over
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The Comprehensive Assessment Platform is compatible
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us—from beginning to end. You get focused attention—
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via phone, email, live chat, and even on-site—from our
knowledgeable specialists.
NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that measure growth and proficiency—and provide insights to help tailor instruction. For 40 years, NWEA has developed assessments and professional learning offerings to help advance all students along their optimal learning paths. Our tools are trusted by educators in 140 countries and more than half the schools in the US.
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Illustrations on pages 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 28, 29 © Adam Simpson and Heart 2017.