HomeSchool Testing Resources

HomeSchool Testing Resources

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This page is intended for homeschool families of Bismarck Public Schools who have had a child participate in the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) testing.  This site was last updated for Spring 2013 testing.

Content Standards Tested

The Spring 2013 version of MAP assesses the Commom Core standards for Mathematics and Reading.  Below is a breakdown of what strands (categories) are assessed by each test.  Click on the name of strand to drill down and see additional details.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Literature

Literature: Key Ideas and Details

Key ideas and details: In literature, understand explicitly stated ideas; cite textual evidence, make and support inferences and conclusions; determine central ideas or themes, retell and summarize with key supporting details and ideas; analyze development and interaction of individuals, events and ideas; compare and contrast themes and characters within and across texts from diverse cultures; identify and describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Literature: Craft and Structure

Craft and structure: In literature, analyze how word choice (word sounds [rhyme, alliteration]; analogies; allusion; multiple-meaning words; fresh, engaging, or beautiful language) shapes meaning or tone; analyze text structure, including the relationship of parts to each other and to the whole, the ordering of events, and devices such as flashback and foreshadowing; analyze point of view and purpose; integrate information from illustrations with information in the text; analyze how two texts address similar themes or topic in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas and Details

Key ideas and details: In informational texts, understand explicitly stated ideas; cite textual evidence, make inferences, support conclusions; determine central ideas or themes, retell and summarize with key supporting details and ideas; compare and contrast important points and main ideas within and across texts; analyze development and interaction of individuals, events and ideas.

Informational Text: Craft and Structure

Craft and Structure: In informational text, analyze how word choice (e.g., the language of a court opinion vs that of a newspaper, analogies, allusions) affects the meaning and tone of a text; analyze how authors use and refine the meaning of key terms; analyze and evaluate text structure, including the relationship of parts to each other and to the whole, the development and refinement of ideas or claims, and the effectiveness of a given structure for an exposition or argument. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. Compare and contrast different authors’ presentations of similar ideas.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Foundational Skills & Vocabulary

Print Concepts, Phonics, and Word Recognition

Print Concepts, Phonics, and Word Recognition: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: segment syllables, blend sounds, identify common prefixes and derivational suffixes, use knowledge of syllabication patterns and morphology, know common vowel-team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

Context Clues and Reference

Context Clues and Reference: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues, analyzing meaningful word parts, and consulting general and specialized reference materials, as appropriate. Acquire grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Word Relationships and Nuance

Word Relationships and Nuance: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs, cause/effect, part/whole, item/category, analogy) to better understand each of the words. Acquire grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Operations & Algebraic Thinking

Represent and Solve Problems

Represent and solve problems involving the four operations: Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction; add and subtract within 20; work with addition and subtraction equations; work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication; understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division; multiply and divide within 100; write and interpret numerical expressions.

Analyze Patterns and Relationships

Analyze patterns and relationships: Identify and explain patterns in arithmetic; gain familiarity with factors and multiples; identify arithmetic patterns and explain them using properties of operations; generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule; generate two numerical patterns using two given rules, form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the two patterns, and graph the ordered pairs on a coordinate plane.

Understand Place Value, Counting, and Cardinality

Understand the place value system and counting and cardinality: Know number names and the count sequence; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s; generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers; read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form; compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place; read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths; use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to any place.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Numbers & Operations

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic: Perform operations with decimals to hundredths; fluently add, subtract, and multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm; use rounding with multi-digit arithmetic; find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors; use strategies based on place value and the properties of operations for multi-digit operations.

Number and Operations-Fractions

Number and operations-fractions: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers; understand fraction equivalence and ordering; build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers; understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions; use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions; apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions; solve word problems involving fractions.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Geometry (2-5)

Reason with Shapes, Attributes, & Coordinate Plane

Reason with shapes and their attributes: Identify and describe shapes; analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes; draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and perpendicular and parallel lines and identify these in two-dimensional figures; classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles; graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems; classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties; partition shapes into parts with equal areas and express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole; recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Measurement & Data

Geometric Measurement and Problem Solving

Solve problems involving measurement and understand concepts of geometric measurement: Relate addition and subtraction to length by representing whole number sums and difference on a number line; tell and write time; use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money; convert like measurement units within a given measurement system; understand concepts of area and volume and relate area and volume to multiplication and addition; understand concepts of angle and measure angles; recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures; measure and estimate the length of an object.

Represent and Interpret Data

Organize, represent, and interpret data: Generate measurement data by measuring lengths to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object; make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit; use operations on fractions to solve problems involving information presented in line plots; draw a single-unit and scaled picture graph and a single-unit and scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories; solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Algebra, Functions, Expresssions, & Equations

Expressions and Equations

Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions and equations: Solve one-variable equations and inequalities (including linear, quadratic, rational, and radical); use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions; interpret the structure of expressions; solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations; work with radicals and integer exponents; use scientific notation; solve systems of equations; perform arithmetic operations on polynomials; represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically; understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.

Use Functions to Model Relationships

Use functions to model relationships between quantities: Define, evaluate, and compare functions; understand the concept of a function and use function notation; interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context; analyze functions using different representations; build new functions from existing functions; construct and compare linear, quadratic, and exponential models and solve problems; extend the domain of trigonometric functions using the unit circle; model periodic phenomena with trigonometric functions; prove and apply trigonometric identities.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Real & Complex Number Systems

Ratios and Proportional Relationships

Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems: Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems; use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems; recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities; use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems.

Perform Operations

Apply and extend previous understandings of operations: Divide fractions by fractions; compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples; add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers; perform arithmetic operations with complex numbers; solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers; reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems.

Extend and Use Properties

Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers: Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers; extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents; use properties of rational and irrational numbers; solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Geometry (6+)

Geometric Measurement and Relationships

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, circumference, surface area, volume, and angle measure: Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects understand and apply theorems about circles; find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles; translate between the geometric description and the equation for a conic section; use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically; solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures.

Congruence, Similarity, Right Triangles, & Trig

Understand congruence and similarity using physical models: Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem; experiment with transformations in the plane; understand congruence in terms of rigid motions; prove geometric theorems; understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations; use facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles and about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal; prove theorems involving similarity; define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Statistics & Probability

Interpreting Categorical and Quantitative Data

Summarize, represent, and interpret data on a single count or measurement variable and on two categorical and quantitative variables: Develop understanding of statistical variability; summarize and describe distributions; use measures of center and measures of variability; draw informal comparative inferences about two populations; investigate patterns of association in bivariate data; interpret linear models; represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).

Using Sampling and Probability to Make Decisions

Use random sampling and the rules of probability: Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population; investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models; understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments; make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies; understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data; use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model.

Information on this page comes from documentation provided by Northwest Education Association (NWEA)

Norms

HI-AV-LO categories by Grade Level

Reading Percentiles by Grade Level

Math Percentiles by Grade Level

Lexiles

Each student who takes the MAP Reading test receives a Lexile score.  Lexile is a measure of reading level.  Many libraries, including the Bismarck Public Schools district library, include the lexile level of books in the library database.

The Lexile website contains additional lexile information.  It has a lexile database, where one can look up a book by ISBN to determine its lexile, as well as a tool where you can type in a passage of text from a written source to determine lexile level.

RIT range reports

These RIT range reports will tell you what question types were assessed on the MAP test.  You can determine where your child is at by noting their score in each of the test strands, and then looking at the corresponding report in the lists below.  The steps below will walk you through this process.

Step 1:  Use the score report that was sent home with your child on the day they tested.  You should have a separate report for Reading and for Math.

Step 2: Look at the sub-categories listed on the score sheet.  These are the strands.  Each strand will have a score for your child.

Step 3: Locate the Test on the chart below.  Then locate the strand, and the score range that correlates to your child's strand score.  Click the link to open the report.

Understanding the RIT score report

Each report has three columns.  The exception to this is the report for the highest and lowest scores, which will show only two columns.

The middle column corresponds to the range for your child's score.  The bullets listed in this range indicate the types of questions asked on the MAP test.  Since your child scored within this range, it means that when your child saw these questions, he/she got them correct HALF the time.

This 50% level indicates your child's LEARNING LEVEL.  The learning level is the point where your child has had enough prior learning to be actively learning information and skills in this RIT Score range.

The leftmost column on the RIT Report indicates skills your child is mastering.  In general, we say that students know about 75% of the material listed in the left column.

The righmost column on the RIT Report shows the items that will be assessed at the next level of the MAP test.  Generally, students know about 25% of the material listed in the right column.

What is a RIT?

RIT is the unit of measurement used by the MAP test to measure the learning level of a student.  More information on the RIT scale can be found here.