New Understanding Teacher and Class Reports Handout and ?'s

NWEA | TIM | ARC

You can now print a copy of most of the pages in the Administrators' MAPs  Toolkit directly from this link. (Data-Dialogue Portion to be added)

When you login to the NWEA website, the DesCartes Learning Continuum is now available for Reading, Language Usage, Math, and Science. 

Map Notebook | Learning Ladder without names | TIM | ARC | Data Dialogue Handouts

•  Using Reports from the  NWEA Website
  
  To access the NWEA site navigate to: http://www.nwea.org   Login using the login and password you received from NWEA. If you need a copy, email MAPs@powayusd.com.

Click on "Teacher Reports", select a testing period, then click the submit button to see your class reports. For instructions to guide you in accessing NWEA Teacher/Class reports, click here.

• For a sample class report with instructions
   for interpreting scores
  
  Celebrate strengths and then determine the lowest goal area (the lowest mean score for a goal area) for reading, language usage, and math. Post these as classroom goals and discuss them with your students. Look up the range for these goals on the MAPs Learning Continuum Ladder and reference it as you plan instruction.
   

• For Sample Individual Student Reports with graphs  
  (These reports are perfect to use at parent conferences.)
  Instructions to download your class set.   

• Using Reports from the  TIM Warehouse
  
  Login to TIM and click on the Learning Ladder.  Here you can see all scores for your class, CST correlations, and instructional information for differentiating.

  If you need a TIM account, email Stacey Campo. 

  If you have forgotten your password, you can email timreset@powayusd.com to reset it.  Put:  "TIM password needed in the subject line of your email. For a sample 9th grade honors English report, (without the continuum) click on the image to the right.
   

When viewing your class on the Learning Ladder in TIM, you can click on a student's name to generate an Individual Student Report.  You'll see current MAPs scores for each goal strand, color-coded to predict the student's success on the spring CST.  For a sample of an Individual Student Report, click on the image to the left.

• Using Reports from ARC
  
  After each testing window closes, PUSD retrieves all the data and reports from NWEA, cleans them, creates additional reports, and posts them on ARC.

  For each student tested in the fall  you can print the ASG (Achievement Status and Growth) Class Report Fall 200_ to see growth targets for each student.  Then, if you test these students in the spring you can print the ASG Class Report for the Spring to see the actual growth compared to the targeted growth. See sample reports below.

  Instructions:  to Print the Achievement Status and Growth Targets Class Reports select them from your site's MAP reports in ARC.  You can also log in to NWEA's site and order the reports directly.

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To determine the typical median scores for students by grade level, examine the following charts. These charts also include correlations with the California Standards Test.

MAP RIT score correlation with the CST for Elementary

MAP RIT Score Correlation with the CST for Middle School

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24 hours after testing teachers receive class reports like the one to the right. It is helpful to look at the goal area median scores in order to honor the students for areas with the strongest performance. Then classes will want to choose the lowest goal area score as a class goal.  In the sample report the class math goal would be to improve in their problem solving skills.

Classes whose teachers post the class goal, discuss it with the students, and look up the goal range in DesCartes to inform their instruction typically make greater progress throughout the year.

Kristie Szentesi, Karen Ogden, Mary Maturo, and a few others have worked to create a great tri-fold for their class and student goals.   Click here for a PDF sample   Click here for a Publisher 2003 file you can use to create your own.

When administering the MAPs assessment, teachers or students will want to record the students' overall scores as well as their goal area scores as they appear onscreen at the end of the test. Forms are provided below.
 

• Goal Planning Sheets for 2nd and 3rd Grade:
   Reading,          Language Usage,  and     Math

• Goal Planning Sheets for 4th and 5th Grade:
                    Reading,            Language Usage,     and Math

Students will reflect on the results and write plans to improve in their lowest goal area in each subject.  Improving in the lowest goal area typically results in  higher academic growth in that subject overall.
 

Student Goal Setting Reflection Guides   These two charts provide questions that help students reflect on their academic performance on the MAP assessment as they develop personal goals.

Elementary Guide        Middle School Guide

• Teachers may choose to have students simply graph their overall scores and then write about changes they see over time.

• The following sheets can be used to help students develop strategies to reach their goals.

• NWEA (Nortthwest Evaluation Association) developed the following pages to provide students with opportunities for self-assessment after the fall and spring assessments. Students reflect on their personal study habits, effort, and participation

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Using MAPs for goal setting can help students:

• Have hope again

• Build the bridge between work, effort and accomplishment

• Experience rewards for effort

• Feel like you're on the same team working for success.

• Bring an enthusiasm for achieving. (Video game mentality to reach new levels is on our side this time!)

For an additional resource that provides insight and tools to understand how to motivate students who are unmotivated, Allen N. Mendler has written an excellent book titled: Motivating Students Who Don't Care, Successful Techniques for Educators.  (To purchase this book from the publisher, click on the title to go to the National Educational Service website.)

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