MAP Reports

Through a teacher level password, you can access MAP Teacher Reports on-line. Go to NWEA.org and click on the "Log In: Reports Site" button, there you will enter your password. (If you do not have a password, your local MAP coordinator can access that for you).

There is a menu on the left of the window. Scroll down to find "Teacher Reports." You will need to choose which testing season and whether you wish your report to be organized by RIT score or Goal Area Descriptor (Lo, Av, Hi). Click on "Submit" to prepare the reports. A new window will open. In that new window will be the Teacher Reports for students that were entered in the Class Roster File as those that you teach. You automatically receive all subject reports, so you may choose to only print those in which you are interested.

If you have an administrative level log in and password, you will log into the reports site as described above, but you will choose "Logins and Teacher Reports" from the menu on the left, then select the school building within the district, the testing term, and whether you want results displayed as RIT scores or goal area descriptors (Lo, Av, Hi). Next, click on "Get Logins" to get a list of teachers within the building. Now, by clicking on one teacher's name, you will have access to reports that contain their students.

MAP Class Reports are included in the district level reports and are ordered and downloaded by your local MAP coordinator. The information is the same and these (Teacher and Class) reports differ from one another in style only.

Again, you can choose to look at the report with either RIT ranges in the goal strands or with goal descriptors. The “lo” descriptor is at a percentile rank between 1 and 33, the “av” descriptor is between 34 and 66, and the “hi” descriptor is between 67 and 99. Choose the one that will aid you the most.

One way you can learn about students from your MAP reports is to add information that will help you to visualize the information.

First, look down the Overall RIT column. Notice that students will be ordered from the lowest RIT score at the top to the highest RIT score at the bottom. Draw horizontal lines between the different RIT blocks of 10. This means to draw a horizontal line separating the scores of 180-189 from the scores 190-199. Repeat this for each group of 10 as you go down the report. You have now separated students into groups which are academically similar. You can check the Des Cartes Learning Continuum for a description of how they are academically similar and what their instrucitonal needs are.

Next, highlight the females in pink and the males in blue. Are there patterns in the performance that are different between boys and girls?

You can also add symbols next to students' names that will help you to make conclusions about students' needs at a deeper level. Consider adding a * next to students who are receiving special education services, or adding a # next to those receiving TAG serves, or a ! next to those who are performing very well in your classroom but who have a lower score than you expected, or a - next to students who are performing poorly in your classroom but who have a higher score than you expected. There might be other programs and services you would want to add or other information about students you would want to add. Then, ask yourself, are there patterns that I see.

-What you can learn from this distribution of students' readiness levels?

-What implications does it have for instruction?

-How can this chart be used to flexibly group students?