Attention Georgia Educators: Answering “What’s Next with Your NWEA MAP Data?”
Attention Georgia Educators: Answering “What’s Next with Your NWEA MAP Data?”
Did NWEA™ MAP® Growth™ assessments just replace the Georgia Milestones in your district? Increasingly, across the state, we’re finding that more districts are reevaluating the value of using the Georgia Milestones in favor of leaning more heavily on MAP Growth assessments that are already used to benchmark learning throughout the year.
Whether you’re raising the stakes on your MAP Growth data or simply continuing to use this powerful assessment to benchmark learning in the fall and spring, you’re receiving detailed reports, including RIT scores after each administration. At Edmentum, we’re firm believers that your assessments are only as good as what you make of the data after the testing is done. So, we ask you—what’s next?
For many districts, the next steps typically includes ongoing data meetings, sticky-note walls, and hours of spreadsheet analysis to tease out themes in skill gaps, identify specific grade levels in need of targeted intervention, and determine what your champion teachers are doing that’s moving the needle. These activities can certainly lead to key insights and data-driven instructional opportunities, but you’re also racing against the clock as those numbers become more and more stale.
What if the “what’s next” step didn’t require this much time and energy? What if technology tools could help you take those RIT scores and immediately turn them into actionable individualized learning plans for each of your students? This is exactly what Edmentum can help provide, via assessment integrations with two of our powerful online programs, Exact Path and Study Island. Here, we’ll take a look at these two options and help provide guidance so that you can make decisions regarding what will best serve your students’ unique set of needs.
How does the integration work?
Exact Path supports K–12 reading, language arts, and math instruction and integrates with MAP Growth K–2 in addition to MAP Growth for Math and Reading. We’ll partner with you to upload your RIT data file with the support of our Customer Success teams, and students will automatically receive a targeted learning playlist of instruction, practice, and assessment focused on closing specific skill gaps identified by their assessment performance.
What program needs can Exact Path help solve?
As our assessment-driven individualized learning program, Exact Path is focused on identifying where students are ready to start learning and providing the self-paced instruction needed to promote academic growth. Exact Path is ideal for students in need of that first-time instructional component, whether because they are significantly below grade level or because they are on a much more accelerated path. A dedicated intervention block would benefit from the comprehensive lesson module approach that Exact Path provides to ensure that students are able to correct any misconceptions in learning, are allotted time to apply those skills in a low-pressure environment, and are ultimately assessed on discrete skill mastery before moving ahead.
How does the integration work?
Our proven, practice and formative assessment program, Study Island, supports K–12 math, English language arts, science, and social studies. For this digital option, the NWEA MAP Link integration can snap on to the core Study Island program to support targeted practice in math for grades 2–11, in reading for grades 2–12, and in science for grades 3–8 so that NWEA MAP Growth performance automatically drives targeted learning pathways after each simple data upload.
What program needs can Study Island help solve?
Study Island is built to the Georgia Standards of Excellence to help drive focused practice that prepares students forexams and also provides ongoing formative assessment to measure academic proficiency. When time is in short supply or a limited schedule doesn’t guarantee regular intervention, short, focused practice topics aligned to assessment results provide the standards-based reinforcement that students need. As students work in the program, simply review reports to evaluate progress toward standards mastery, and plan for data-driven instruction and intervention based on results.
Make sure that your NWEA MAP Growth data is working for you to give students the best chance at achieving success. While just one program might be the right fit for some, many schools and districts are also finding success combining the power of both Study Island and Exact Path to achieve student proficiency and growth, respectively.
Want to learn more about how Edmentum is helping you make the most out of your NWEA MAP Growth assessment data? Check out this recently recorded webinar to get a firsthand look at Study Island and Exact Path and discover how each one can help you make the most of your data.
