• District Assessment Program

    Below is information on the district assessment tools:

     

    NWEA's Measures for Academic Progress (MAP)

    All kindergarten through eighth grade students will be assessed via NWEA's - M.A.P. (Measures of Academic Progress). 

    A Tool for Teachers

    Created by educators for educators, MAP assessments provide detailed, actionable data about where each child is on their unique learning path. Because student engagement is essential to any testing experience, NWEA works with educators to create test items that interest children and help to capture detail about what they know and what they’re ready to learn. It’s information teachers can use in the classroom to help every child, every day.

     
    Adapting the Test to the Student

    MAP dynamically adapts to a student’s responses – as they take the test.

    • Answer a question correctly and the test presents a more challenging item
    • Miss a question, and MAP offers a simpler item

    In this way, the test narrows in on a student’s learning level, engaging them with content that allows them to succeed.

     

    Assessment Areas

    Each computerized assessment is aligned to national and state curricula and standards  (Common Core State Standards):

    ·MAP:  Reading, and Mathematics

    ·MAP for Primary Grades:  Reading, and Mathematics


    Above M.A.P. information provided from http://www.nwea.org/products-services/computer-based-adaptive-assessments/map

    i-Ready

    What is i-Ready? 

    i-Ready is a robust, online platform that offers a computer-adaptive diagnostic, personalized data-driven instruction on foundation skills, standards-based practice, and a Common Core readiness screener. It's all you need to significantly improve student outcomes in reading and math.

    Diagnostic

    Assesses an individual student's skills across multiple grade levels to pinpoint gaps.

     

    Instruction

    Gives teachers an action plan and automatically delivers differentiated, online instruction to students.

     

    Above i-Ready information provided from www.i-Ready.com/product.asp

    AIMSweb

    AIMSweb is used for progress monitoring our RtI students.  Progress monitoring will be done on a weekly basis for Tier II students and Tier III students.  Data will be collected to see if the interventions being used are working and students are making progress.