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