What are Measures of Academic Progress Used For?
They measure your student s progress or growth in school. MAP is somewhat of a growth chart. It measures the student s growth in reading, language usage, and math skills. • How do the tests measure growth in learning? The Measures of Academic Progress use scores to measure growth in reading, language usage, and math. Scores depend on two things: how many questions are answered correctly and the difficulty of each question. • What do the tests cover? Each Measure of Academic Progress is made up of parts, which are called goals. Here are some goals similar to what the student will take on a test. Reading Word Meaning Literal Comprehension Inferential Comprehension Evaluative Comprehension Language Usage Writing Process Grammar and Usage Punctuation and Capitalization Mathematics Estimation and Computation Number Sense Geometry and Spatial Sense Measurement Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability Patterns, Functions, and Algebra Problem Solving After the tests are taken, the results ma
