Projected Proficiency Summary Report

This MAP report aggregates and summarizes RIT scores on Survey with Goals growth tests taken in your schools to help you determine how a group of students is projected to perform on a state test.

• All proficiency projections are based on studies linking the RIT scale to the standards and proficiency levels of individual state assessments.

• Linking/alignment studies are limited to fall and spring, so there are no projections from the winter or summer test results.

  Note: Of course, you can generate this report any time, but only with the report options set to fall or spring testing.

• Depending on the state, linking/alignment studies may also be limited to certain subjects (typically reading and math) and certain grades (typically 2 through 8).
• For any state that does not have a linking/alignment study, generic projections appear on the report. NWEA uses the 40th percentile from the norms study to forecast basic proficiency and the 70th percentile to forecast advanced proficiency.
• Projected proficiency data are updated regularly. For the latest information about your state's linking/alignment study, go to www.nwea.org and see Your State Standards.

For information about each part of the report, see the Reports Reference, available from the MAP Reports landing page.

Required Roles

You must be assigned at least one of the following MAP system roles to access this report:

• Administrator
• Assessment Coordinator

Field Descriptions

Use the following required fields to order this report:

Term: List of fall and spring terms in the current and previous academic year for which testing has been declared complete and in which the district has at least one associated Survey with Goals growth test eventThe test event that is considered the most reliable for measuring student growth for a given term for a given subject. A test event must occur within a school’s test window to be considered as a growth test event. If multiple tests are valid and occur within the test window, the test event with the lowest standard error of measure (SEM) is the growth test event. and for which proficiency projections exist. Defaults to the most recent fall or spring term that has been declared complete.

Aggregation: Determines the level of data aggregation for the report. Administrators can order reports that contain data only for schools with which they are associated.

• District by Grade aggregates test event data for all grades within a district. This option is available only to users with the Assessment Coordinator role in the MAP system.
• District by School aggregates test event data for all schools in the district. This option is available only to users with the Assessment Coordinator role in the MAP system.
• School by Grade aggregates test event data by grade within a school. This option is available to users with the Administrator role or Assessment Coordinator role in the MAP system.

School: List of all schools in an Assessment Coordinator's district or schools assigned to an Administrator. You can choose to include some or all of the schools in the report.

Use the following options to format and display report results:

Optional Grouping: Organizes and calculates results by gender, ethnicity, or program. This grouping is coupled with the aggregation chosen in the options above.

Report Format: Sets the report output file type as PDF (default) or spreadsheet file in XML format.

Ordering a Projected Proficiency Report

To order this report:

1. On the MAP Reports landing page, click Projected Proficiency Summary Report.

2. On the Projected Proficiency Summary page, select a term from the Term drop-down list.

   Note: Only terms for which testing has been declared complete are listed.
   

3. Select schools you want to include in the report (available to Administrators with multiple schools assigned and to Assessment Coordinators). Assessment coordinators can also select whether to aggregate the district results by grade or by school, or aggregate by grade within a school.
4. Modify the format and display of the report in the Report Options section.

5. Click Create Report.

   If you choose PDF format, click the View/Print link to view the report with page breaks at the start of each new subject, optional group, or school (if aggregation is School by Grade).

   If you choose to export the report in spreadsheet format, click the Download link in the Reports Queue.

   • On a Mac, the file automatically saves in your downloads directory.
   • On a PC, you can choose to view or save the file.

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