2015-MAP-Normative-Data-NWEA.PDFVIP

2015 NWEA Measures of Academic Progress Normative Data ® ® Looking for context to Measures of Academic Progress (MAP ) normative percentiles? The 2015 NWEA Comparative Data One Sheet includes multiple College and Career Readiness (CCR) benchmarks, including those from ACT® and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced). By using carefully constructed measurement scales that span grades, MAP interim assessments from Northwest Evaluation Association™ (NWEA™) offer educators efficient and very accurate estimates of student achievement status within a subject. Before achievement test scores can be useful to educators, however, they need to be evaluated within a context. To that end, 2015 RIT Scale Norms allow educators to compare achievement status—and changes in achievement status (growth) between test occasions—to students’ performance in the same grade at a comparable stage of the school year. This contextualizing of student performance: • helps teachers as they plan instruction for individual students or confer with parents • supports school and district administrators as they focus on allocating resources • empowers school staff as they work to improve all educational outcomes For the research behind changes to the 2015 RIT Scale Norms, please see page 6. For many reasons, it is inadvisable to compare performance of a student on one set of test norms to his or her performance on another. NWEA strongly advises educators to use the 2015 norms because they provide the current and most accurate reference for MAP scores. Slight differences from the 2011 norms have been observed, some of which reflect true change in the performance of the students. In addition, evidence indicates three other plausible sources for these differences. • Schools demograph