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What is MAP Growth?
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. -
MAP Growth and STAAR 2.0 Crosswalk
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Practice Tests and Videos
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:
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How do students and teachers login?
- Students:
- Log-in to MAP Growth by using the NWEA Secure Test Browser. (Task Card)
- Staff:
- teach.mapnwea.org
- Username:
- Example
- Password:
- New users will receive directions in a welcome email or
- Reset password by clicking “Forgot Username/Password”
- Students:
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How do I administer the screener?
Prepare Devices
- Headphones
- Students in Grades K-1
- Students in Grades 2+ with Text to Speech
- Students Taking MAP Reading Fluency
- Microphones
- Students Taking MAP Reading Fluency
- Ensure Lockdown Browser is Installed (Task Card)
Setting Up Test Sessions
- Proctor Quick Start Guide
- Pre-Test Proctor Checklist
- Adding Accommodations
- Creating Test Sessions Video
Proctoring Test Sessions
- Headphones
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How can I monitor which students still need to test?
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:
Professional Development
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MAP Growth Administration TOT for Campus Leaders
- Canvas Asynchronous TOT Course for Campus Leaders
- Presentation (Job-A-Like)
- Sample School Assessment Plan
- Materials to Use with Teachers:
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MAP Growth Administration for Teachers
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Informing Instruction with MAP
- Please visit www.houstonisd.org/datarichyear
Other Resources
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Testing Forms
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Accommodations
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.
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Family Guide to MAP Growth
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:
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MAP Reading Fluency
What is MAP Reading Fluency?
MAP Reading Fluency is an online adaptive reading assessment for students who are learning to read. It measures foundational reading skills, with an emphasis on oral fluency.
Students read aloud into the computer or iPad using a headset-mounted microphone. Patented speech scoring software scores the oral reading samples and teachers get detailed information about student performance in terms of words-correct-per-minute, decoding accuracy, and passage comprehension. Pre-readers are assessed on early literacy skills including letter knowledge, phonics, phonemic awareness, listening comprehension, and picture vocabulary. Teachers get reports of performance on each subtest and are able to listen to, annotate, and optionally hand-score students’ recorded reading.
For more information, refer to Setting up for Testing and Testing and Proctoring Students in the MAP Help Center.
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How do I use the MAP Reading Fluency reports?
MAP Reading Fluency Reports Crosswalk
Benchmark Matrix Report (Class or Student)
Instructional Planning Report (Class)
Progress Monitoring Dashboard (Class or Student)
Screener Outcomes Report (Class or Student)
Term Summary Report (School or Grade)
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MAP FAQ
Below is a link to our NWEA MAP FAQ:
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MAP Connections Resources
