MAP Basics
Using MAP Data
Understanding MAP Reports
Fun Facts: Education and Testing Worldwide
A Journey Through MAP History
100

MAP stands for this term.

What is Measures of Academic Progress?

100

Teachers use this score from the MAP data to understand a student's current academic performance. 

What is the RIT score?

100

This report provides a snapshot of a student's current academic achievement. 

OR Who can help you better understand your MAP scores

What is a Student Progress Report?

What is an Instructional Coach?

100

This country's students have consistently ranked among the highest in international assessments such as PISA.

What is Finland?

100

The MAP assessment was first introduced by NWEA in this year. 

What is 2000?

200

This type of test adjusts its difficulty level based on the student's answers. 

What is a computer-adaptive test?

200

MAP data helps educators tailor their teaching strategies to meet individual student's learning needs, a method known as this. 

What is differentiated instruction?

200

This report helps teachers identify skills that students are ready to learn next. 

What is the Learning Continuum Report?

200

This nation was the birthplace of standardized testing over 2000 years ago.

What is China?

200

This was the original purpose of the MAP assessments when they were first introduced. 

What is to provide precise, real-time information about every student’s learning needs?

300

These are the main subjects that the MAP test covers. 

What are reading, language usage, and math?

300

Two main types of MAP assessments are designed to provide detailed data to educators. Name one of them. 

What are MAP Growth and MAP Skills?

300

This report allows teachers to compare class performance with the grade level performance of a norm group from the same term. 

What is a Class Breakdown by Projected Proficiency Report?

300

This small island nation conducts a standardized test known as the PSLE, which has a significant influence on students' future academic path.

What is Singapore?

300

This is the name of NWEA's initiative launched in 2018 to foster a culture of inclusivity and diversity in testing. 

What is the "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" initiative?

400

MAP assessments provide this kind of data, which allows educators to measure a student's academic progress over time. 

What is a RIT score?

400

This term refers to the discrepancy between a student's potential to learn and the level at which they are currently performing. 

What is a learning gap?

400

This report groups students according to their instructional level. 

What is the Instructional Area Report?

400

This country, home to one of the world's oldest universities, has a national high school exit exam known as the "baccalaureat."

What is Morocco?

400

As of 2021, this is the number of students assessed by NWEA's MAP Growth.

 What is over 11 million?

500

This organization developed the MAP test. 

What is the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)?

500

Some educators choose to administer the MAP assessment this many times a year to best track their academic growth. 

What is up to three times a year (fall, winter, spring)?

500

This report provides a snapshot of a class's current achievement and projected proficiency. 

What is the Class Report?

500

This Middle Eastern country's system of standardized testing includes both centralized national exams and teacher-made assessments.

What is Israel?

500

This key feature of MAP Growth allows the test to adjust its difficulty based on each student's answer. 

What is the computer-adaptive technology?