Dear Elementary Families,
This fall, WPS elementary schools will expand our use of the NWEA MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) Growth online assessment in mathematics. The district is administering the assessment to grades 3, 4 and 5 in each school.
Our district goal is to implement high quality assessment to understand and support your child’s mathematical learning. The purpose of the assessment is to identify a student’s strengths and needs in mathematics with a high level of validity and reliability. This assessment will assist teachers with planning curricular extensions and identifying areas for support.
The MAP Growth assessment is an online, adaptive assessment that is taken on students’ individual iPads, typically in one instructional period. The assessment adjusts the question items to the individual student depending on the student’s responses. It provides easier or more complex questions until it has identified the student’s individual instructional zone of learning. The assessment will be used by teachers to help design their instructional planning for students. More information about NWEA MAP Growth can be found at: https://www.nwea.org/map-growth/.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Ellen