MAP Resources for Students and Families
What is MAP?
McCracken County Public Schools is implementing Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) as the district’s testing system to measure individual student growth in math and reading. This system assesses student progress three times a year, providing valuable information on the academic growth of individual students throughout the year.
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) are computerized tests in Reading, Language Usage, and Mathematics to determine each student's achievement level. The tests are adaptive in that, when a student answers a question correctly, the questions become more difficult; if a student answers a question incorrectly, the questions become easier. Assessments are individually tailored to the student.
Having the right data is a key component to making learning individual to each child. The MAP system will allow teachers to know where individual students score in math and reading upon entrance and exit of a grade - indicating whether or not a student has exhibited a year’s growth in the subject. This data will be made available to individual student’s parents as well.
Students and teachers will work together to set goals based upon the individual student’s MAP score - giving students, parents and teachers an understanding of where each child is, and needs to go. MAP also provides reports that allow educators to compare class or grade-level performance to students from schools across the country.
Our goals as a district are clear: we believe that the data provided through the MAP testing system is essential to ensuring that each of our students experience a year’s growth every year. Our teachers will engage in discussion about how to best use this data in grade level meetings, department meetings, and PLCs. It is everyone’s responsibility to make this initiative effective. We all must work to use this data to drive instructional practices in our schools. It’s what’s best for our students.
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Testing Window Dates (tentative):
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Fall |
Winter Elementary: January 9 - 31 Middle: January 10 - 31 High: January 11 - 31 |
Spring Elementary: April 9 - 27 Middle: April 9-27 High: April 9-27 |
Parent Toolkit for understanding your child's MAP assessment
MAP Warm-Up for Primary Grades
What is a RIT score?
The RIT Scale is a curriculum scale that uses individual item difficulty values to estimate student achievement. An advantage of the RIT scale is that it can relate the numbers on the scale directly to the difficulty of items on the tests. In addition, the RIT scale is an equal interval scale. Equal interval means that the difference between scores is the same regardless of whether a student is at the top, bottom, or middle of the RIT scale, and it has the same meaning regardless of grade level.
Characteristics of the RIT Scale include:
• It is an achievement scale.
• It is an accurate scale.
• It is an equal interval scale.
• It helps to measure growth over time.
• It has the same meaning regardless of grade or age of the student.
Sample test questions by RIT range for math, reading and language.
Strategies for Parents to Improve Their Child's Reading, Writing & Math
What are Lexiles?
The Lexile Framework for Reading, developed by MetaMetrics, uses one scale to provide measurements of both the difficulty of a particular piece of text and the comprehension level of a particular reader. The Lexile Scale typically ranges from 200L to 1700L, though scores may occasionally fall below and above that range. 200L is considered beginning reading level. 1200L is considered workplace-level text. 1215L-1355L is considered college and career ready.
What are Lexile scores based on?
The Lexile score for a piece of text is determined by two factors:
1. Word Frequency
2. Sentence Length
How is a student’s comprehension level matched to a Lexile?
A student’s Lexile score is represented by a range of 150 points. The lower end of that range represents the level at which the student is able to read independently. The upper end of the range represents the student’s instructional reading level, a level at which the student is likely to need assistance and guiding.
How can I find the Lexile score for text?
Once a student’s Lexile range is determined, the Lexile Database can be used to find appropriate text. The database, available to all at www.lexile.com, contains information on tens of thousands of books and articles, with more being added regularly.