Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)  Universal Screener and Diagnostic Test  AIMSWeb is only a screener  Adaptive test items  Depending on how student answers, MAP adjusts the next items given.  Provides continuum that lists concepts and skills as emerging, developing, to be developed.

Getting to Know Descartes  MAP uses a measurement scale that has proven to be stable and valid over time.  It is based on the same modern test theory that aligns student achievement levels with item difficulties on the same scale.  The scale is divided into an equal interval scale (like centimeters on a ruler).  These are called RITs, which is short for Rasch Unit (named after the founder of the test theory).  The RIT scale measures a student’s academic growth over time.

Individual Student Growth Report

Stand Up, Match Up, Give One, Get One  One minute by yourself  Study the sample Achievement Status and Growth Class report and think about the ways you might use this report in your school.  One minute by yourself  Write down two to three of the ideas you came up with  Stand up, hand up (like high five). Find someone not in your grade level AND not sitting next to you. Match up (Burst high five).  Share one of your ideas with your partner  Partner shares one idea with you Whole group debrief and record

Grade level ladders  Sit with teacher(s) in grade level above/below you  Sit with teacher(s) in at least one different content area  Look at Descartes continuum  Choose one goal strand for content area of choice (reading, language, science)  Match up proficient RIT goal level  Analyze skills expected at your grade level and compare to skills expected at each other’s grade levels  How do these compare to standards?  Repeat for additional goal strands