MAP Growth measures what your student knows and how they are growing academically, allowing you to track your student’s progress throughout the school year and across multiple years. MAP Growth also provides teachers and families with the ability to understand how the student’s performance compares to their peers.

Teachers can use MAP Growth scores to monitor the growth of individual students and develop classroom-level strategies for equitable instruction that help maximize every student’s learning potential. Principals and administrators can use the scores to see the performance and progress of a grade level, school, or the entire district.

Students can try Practice Tests and watch videos to become familiar with MAP Growth tests. The link appears on the student log-in page (test.mapnwea.org), or you can direct students to the following website on any supported device and browser (excluding Internet Explorer):

From the Student Resources, they can access MAP Practice Tests. These tests include about 5 questions, depending on the grade, and do not provide a score or adaptive behavior. You can also open the practice tests directly from this website:

• Username = grow
• Password = grow

To practice with the calculator:

MAP Growth uses the Desmos calculator. To learn more, visit www.desmos.com and these practice sites:

• www.desmos.com/scientific
• www.desmos.com/fourfunction

• Students:
  • Log-in to MAP Growth by using the NWEA Secure Test Browser. (Task Card)
• Staff:
  • teach.mapnwea.org
  • Username: 
    • computerusername@houstonisd.org
  • Example
    • asmith@houstonisd.org
    • p00XXXXX@houstonisd.org
  • Password:  
    • New users will receive directions in a welcome email or
    • Reset password by clicking “Forgot  Username/Password”

We recommend that campuses take a similar approach to attendance on STAAR assessment days. Each teacher will receive an attendance list early in the morning and they will indicate which students are absent. Students who are identified as absent will be selected for a make-up testing day within the window.

There are reports within the NWEA MAP platform that may assist, but the data will not populate in the platform until the day after the assessment has been completed. Below is a link to a quick infographic with the information on those two reports:

• Operational Reports Summary Quick Reference

MAP Reports Crosswalk

• Overview of All MAP Reports

Student Profile Report

• Task Card

Class Profile Report

• Video
• Task Card

School Profile Report

• Task Card

Achievement Status and Growth Report 

• Task Card

Below are links to our CMS folders with CTC resources:

 NWEA MAP Growth - All PowerPoints, Training Recordings, Links to Forms

 MAP Growth - Assessment Guidance Document

• Please visit www.houstonisd.org/datarichyear  for Data Dig PLC resources

• 2020 NWEA MAP Growth normative data overview

• 2024 TX STAAR 3-8 MAP Growth Linking Study Report

MAP Growth and STAAR 2.0 Crosswalk

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Accommodations for MAP Growth assessments should follow the requirements of the student's IEP.    Students can receive any accommodations that the committees below have determined that the student needs for District and State Testing.

 - ARD Committee

 - LPAC Committee

 - 504 Committee

 - MTSS Committee

Students who are participating in an alternate curriculum are NOT required to take MAP Growth assessments.

Accommodations and Accessibility

This document shows the resources available for all students and has links which explain the  text-to-speech accommodation. Other accommodations can be documented within the NWEA Platform, but will not affect the administration of the assessments. 

Text-To-Speech Guidance from NWEA

Text-to-Speech is the only accommodation that will affect the operation of the Map Growth Assessments.

RESOURCES:

MAP Growth: Support for All Learners PowerPoint

Norm Tables - Although the percentiles are found on all of the reports, my special education administrators appreciated being able to see the percentiles for goal setting.  

Sample Questions by RIT - This document shows sample questions to help teachers gain an understanding of the rigor of questions associated with varied RIT Scores.

The Family Guide to MAP Growth is a quick resource you can use to introduce your students' families to the assessment process and how you'll be using data to support learning. 

Click here for our Family Report Guidance.

It's also available in these languages: 

• Amharic
• Arabic
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese
• Haitian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Nepalese
• Russian
• Somali
• Spanish
• Vietnamese

• NWEA MAP Growth site-wide resource pages