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Understanding Your Child’s MAP Scores 2025-26
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Target release date for MAP Report:
Wednesday October 1st
Primary: Toddle
Secondary: SEQTA Engage under reports.
Spring 2025 : ISHCMC exceeded the mean RIT score for G2-10 in all 3 testing subjects for:
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NWEA's assessments are called Measures of Academic Progress (MAP®).
3 tests measure your child's reading, language usage, and mathematics knowledge.
These do not affect grades or promotion to the next year level.
They are tailored to an individual's current achievement level.
The test questions are based on American Education Reaches Out (AERO) standards. PYP and MYP Math and English is mapped to the AERO standards.
Reminders about MAP
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A MAP test is an adaptive multiple choice test.
The question bank has over 60,000 qns - no students have the same test experience.
The test adapts the difficulty of each question based on how well a student answers the previous questions.
The test starts with questions of average grade level difficulty.
As students gets questions right, the difficulty of the questions
increase. As they get questions wrong, the difficulty decreases.
Reminders about MAP
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Reminders about MAP
The MAP tests are just one data point that we use to determine what students can do and know, so goals can be set to measure progress and growth for each individual student.
Teachers can pinpoint weaker areas to provide support and stronger areas where students need to be challenged.
Students cannot pass or fail these tests.
Math - MAP
Reading - MAP
Reading Stands - Grade 2-5 | Reading Stands - Grade 6-10 |
Foundational Skills Language and Writing Literature and Information Text Vocabulary Use and Functions | Literary Text: Key Ideas and Details Literary Text: Language, Craft, Structure Informational Text: Key Ideas and Details Vocabulary: Acquisition and Use |
Language Usage - MAP
Language Usage: Grade 3 - Grade 10 |
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Language used for MAP - Norms
The norm level is from the USA - The norm levels take into account:
Norm data takes test results from 9 testing windows and
records are sampled from between 3.6 and 5.5 million test scores from 500,000 to 700,000 students attending over 24,500 public schools in 5,800 districts spread across the States.
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There is normally a dip in the RIT scores between the Spring to Fall MAP tests (over 6 weeks of holidays).
Language used for MAP - RIT
What is RIT?
Rasch UnIT - measurement scale used to simplify the test scores
The RIT scale ranges from 100 - 350.
What is a RIT Score?
This score represents a student’s achievement level at any given moment and helps measure their academic growth over time.
Family Report
We will watch the first 2 mins 50 seconds
Family Report
Sample 1 - Math
Sample 2 - Reading
Family Report - Teacher Q's
How we use the results
Helps us to identify what the students already know and what they are ready to learn.
Areas of growth and areas for development.
Identifies curriculum gaps and helps inform teaching and learning through data driven instructions.
Helps us to identify if your child needs additional support in particular areas (interventions for low and extension for high).
Discussing the results with your child
MAP growth scores are just one data point
Students traditionally have a dip in the fall
Help your child to look at the ‘whole’ picture not just MAP results
Think about your child as an individual learner - try not to compare the results between your children and others
The second MAP Tests are in May
For additional information: https://www.nwea.org/the-map-suite/family-toolkit/
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Ongoing Help
Lexile to Grade Level Chart
Extra Mathematics Practice?
This Khan Academy website offers practice questions at different levels of Mathematics depending on your son/daughter’s current MAP scores. As parents, you are welcome to use this at home as extra support before the next round of MAP tests.
Please select Mathematics 2-5 or 6+. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/mappers
Ongoing Help
Questions?
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