What Are Measures of Academic Progress?
MAP is one measure of your child’s performance and progress in school. You may have a chart in your home on which you mark your child’s height at certain times. This is a growth chart that shows how he or she has grown from one period of time to another. MAP does the same sort of thing, except it measures your child’s growth over time in reading and math. After two testing events a graph will illustrate your students’ growth from test to test. The more data points your student has, the more obvious their progress will be. In future years, you will be able to observe your child’s growth from previous years. MAP can be administered up to four times per year to monitor student progress. What Do the Scores Mean? On the report you can see your child’s RIT score range, district average score, and the norm group average of students tested across the nation. A RIT score is a measure of a student’s academic growth over time. Like units on a ruler, the scale is divided into equal intervals and i
