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The attached
form can be completed in order to make students and parents aware of a student's MAP scores along with their strengths
and areas of concern, plus setting growth goals for the coming months.
Overall subject RIT scores are included,
typical growth as compared to the national norm groups and resulting goals for the next testing season are recorded.
Then within each subject, RIT ranges are included in order to communicate strengths and areas of concern. Three things that
parents can do to assist their student could also be added to the goal setting worksheet.
Also attached here is
a directions sheet to help students and teachers complete the form.
Teachers should consider just how this form
can be used to inform parents, inform their own instruction and help to increase the ownership students have for their results.
Teachers may also want to consider monitoring progress toward goals. Instead of waiting six months for the next MAP
test, teachers could use the Des Cartes Learning Continuum to pinpoint the skills and knowledge students will need to know
to obtain a higher RIT score. This can be used to design a progress monitoring system or tool that can be used with students
every few weeks between MAP tests. The results of this progress monitoring should be used to plan instruction.
This
is similar to setting Performance Standards, so teachers may want to review that process. In addition to writing numerical
goals for an individual student, a classroom and/or a grade level, goals in written form can also be written.
In
order to make those goals the most effective, they should be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely, this attachment
can aid in goal setting in those ways.
Consider setting goals based more on the Des Cartes
Learning Continuum skills and concepts than on increasing scores by the amount typical of the norm group. Commonly, goals
are set through adding the norm growth number the first RIT score. However, this is based on the typical student and not necessarily
on the skills and concepts you are teaching or on the skills and concepts that you want your students to master.
If you have the Dynamic Reporting Suite... With the Dynamic Reporting Suite, students' assessment scores can be put
into a goal setting sheet for you. This can be used to communicate with students and parents about which areas students are
strong in or which you have a concern about, and set goals for the coming months.
To access these student goal
setting sheets, log on to the NWEA Reports Site through the website below. (You will need a login and password, if you do
have know your login and password your local MAP coordinator can access those for you.)
Scroll down to find the
"Dynamic Reports" on the left hand menu, then "Student Goal Setting Worksheet" on the new menu. You will
need to choose the desired testing term, likely you will want the most recent. It will take some time to process these reports.
It does generate all student reports at once.
The goal setting worksheets are set up to be used from Fall to Spring,
if you choose a Spring testing term the final assessment results will be included and not the initial.
Access to
this report allows teachers, students and parents to focus on the meaning of the scores and not on filling in the numbers.
Teachers, parents and students are able to set a goal with an action plan to achieve that on this worksheet.
Student Goal Setting Worksheet
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