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Data and Parents - Connecting the Dots
- 1. [Connecting the Dots] Lissa Brunan Grand Valley State University Assessment Specialist
- 3. Switch me to SILENT or VIBRATE, ple ase. Thank you.
- 7. FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NWEA
- 10. [adaptive]
- 12. [not mastery of content]
- 14. [national norms]
- 15. 2008 2.8 million students 2012 +8 million students All 50 states 20 countries
- 18. REVIEW THE FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW KNOW ABOUT NWEA
- 24. 50thPercentile Typical Growth (100%) High GrowthHigh Growth Low Growth Low Growth High Proficiency High Proficiency Low Proficiency Low Proficiency
- 28. 50thPercentile Typical Growth (100%) Low Growth Low Growth High ProficiencyLow Proficiency High GrowthHigh Growth High ProficiencyLow Proficiency 140% of Individual Growth Goal CollegeReadiness
- 31. 206.7
- 35. Lissa Brunan Assessment Specialist GVSU Charter Schools Office brunanl@gvsu.edu
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- Computer – NWEA MAP tests are always taken on the computer. It is not a paper pencil test. Although students can use paper and pencil for scratch paper if they need it.
- Adaptive – This test adjusts to the student, the student does not have to adjust to the test. If a student gets an item wrong, the next question is easier, if they get it right, the next question gets harder. This happens after every question on the test, so no two test are exactly the same.
- NWEA assessments have an item selection algorithm. The objective of that algorithm is to add as much precision as possible to the true instructional level (sweet spot) for each student. As the test progresses, that estimate becomes increasingly more precise by virtue of continually adding items that are closer and closer to each student’s true instructional zone (ZPD) The zone of proximal development often abbreviated ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. It is a concept developed by the Russian psychologist and social constructivistLev Vygotsky (1896 – 1934). In measurement terms, I want the most robust estimate of that zone. I want the point where I collect the maximum about what the child knows and doesn’t know.
- Not Mastery of Content – Most tests we take are summative, they reflect on what we have learned. This test is different b/c it is finding out where the students CURRENT instructional level is. Students are NOT expected to get them all right, as they would on a mastery test. The test is actually designed so they cannot get them all right, as we’ll discuss later.
- National Norms – Over 3 million students in the US take this test every year. The national norms are made up from those test scores to identify what RIT score is considered grade level in each grade, subject area, and season. Basically, every three (3) years there is a growth study done, and NWEA takes all the student test scores, “line them up” and find the exact middle. Therefore, the students scores decide the grade level cut, not the employees of NWEA. Norms can adjust up or down depending on the students’ performance on a national level. A new growth study is currently being done and new norms will come out in the fall of 2011.
- Criterion Referenced – After a student takes the MAP or PGA MAP test, they receive a RIT score. This score is different b/c it references criteria, specific skills/concepts, that teachers can teach, which is known as the student’s current instructional level. Grades K-1 have a resource called Instructional data, while grades 2-8 can refer to DesCartes. They both can be found on the NWEA reports website, and they both break down the RIT scale into RIT bands to help teachers better group students at their abilities and identify students’ specific needs.
- Odd number of people (5)Sticky note – write down a number from 0-100That’s the score you got on a testLine up in orderFind exact Middle – MEDIAN – 50th percentileDoes the middle person have exactly 50?
- The Individual Student Progress Report displays current and past scores in each subject for individual students. The data is displayed in both number and graph format. This report can be ordered with RIT Ranges or Goal Descriptors (HI-AV-LO). It can be printed by district or school and is a valuable tool often used for parent conferences.IF TIME: Choose one subject area and a partner to be the parent, discuss data as you were talking to a parent. Then role reverse with another subject area.