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What students should know about MAP

Audience Students 1st -5th grade 20 min.

Purpose: Explain the way MAP works and how to do your best. Explain the purpose of MAP testing.

Key Points:

Each MAP test is unique.-MAP chooses questions for you based on how you answer on the test. Your test will not look like your neighbors or like the test you took last time.

You are not expected to know the answer to every question. In fact, there is no way you will know the answer to every question. It is not possible to get a 100 on the test.

You will see questions on the test that you do not know the answer to. That is okay. Make a guess and move on.

The test is not timed. You will have all the time you need to work on this test. If you are asked a question that you do not know the answer to, do not spend a long time on the question. Take a guess and move on.

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What do you know about the MAP test?

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Things you might already know about MAP:

Math, Reading & Science

Given three times a year

Taken on a computer

Does not count for a grade in your classes

Not timed

Has 52 questions (varies by subject/test)

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Things that may surprise you about MAP:

Shows your teachers, principals and parents how much you have grown and learned.

Helps your teacher know what you are ready to learn.

Measures of Academic Progress

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A MAP test is like a ruler, but instead of measuring height, it measures how much you’ve learned over a period of time.

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How many of you hope to drive a car someday?

To make a car go, you need gas. Have you seen your parents put gas in the tank at the gas station? Can you tell by looking at the gas tank how much gas is there? No. But you can tell by looking at the gas gauge on the dashboard. The gas gauge is the sign you can see that tells you how much gas is in the tank.

It is the same thing with learning. Can your teacher look at your brain or your head and tell how much you have grown or learned? No! But he or she can look at your score on the MAP and other tests to see how much you have grown and learned. The test is the sign that tells your teacher how much learning is in your head.

Which do you think is more important, the score on MAP or the learning that has happened in your head?

2min.

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Things that may surprise you about MAP:

No two MAP tests are alike!

Show me your surprised face again!

This is the second thing that may surprise you about MAP: No two MAP tests are alike. Each time you take the MAP test, the test is going to ask you different questions. Each person who takes the MAP test will be asked different questions. You will not have the same questions as other students in your class! (Turn to your neighbor and say, I will not have the same questions as you. )(Turn to another neighbor and say, I will not have the same questions as you.)

The reason why is that the computer is making the MAP test as you are answering questions. Picture in your mind a library. But instead of books, it is filled with questions. There are thousands and thousands of questions in this library and MAP will pull different questions off the shelf for you and for your classmates each time they log onto take a test.

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Low Score

High Score

Easier Question

Difficult Question

When you go to the library, you can check out any book you want, no matter what grade you are in. Just like in our library of questions. MAP does not know how old you are or what grade you are in. MAP is not just looking in the 3rd grade shelf to ask you 3rd grade questions and find out what 3rd grade things you know, but anything at all that you know.

When you log onto MAP, MAP pulls a question down off the shelf and asks you that question. If you get it right, MAP will climb up the ladder to the next level and ask you a harder question.

If you get a question wrong, no big deal, MAP goes down to a lower shelf to pull an easier question for you.

If your questions become more difficult while you are taking MAP what does that mean? You are answering hard questions correctly and your score will go up!

answering questions wrong on purpose just to get easier questions next will only lower their score.

2min

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Things that may surprise you about MAP:

You are not expected to know every answer on the MAP test.

It is not possible to get all questions right on MAP.

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Sample Reading Question

Some reading items have scroll bars.
As you read, move the scroll bar down by using your mouse.

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Things that may surprise you about MAP:

Your MAP score is not determined by the number of questions you answer correctly!

Your score is based on the level of difficulty of the questions you are answering correctly.

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Low Score

High Score

Easier Question

Difficult Question

18 Questions

11 Correct

7 Incorrect

61%

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Get a good night’s sleep & eat a healthy breakfast!