District Profile Report

Welcome to the District Profile report! You can use this report to quickly track trends of grades within your district, identify populations that need additional support or interventions, evaluate the results of major changes, and more.

Contents

Getting started

In this section you'll learn what the District Profile report offers you and how you can access it.

Feature overview

Explore your district’s data with the interactive features highlighted below.

Of note are two tabs called Single-Term Achievement and Growth and Achievement, optional filters, average RIT, data visualizations, grade details and help.

Key features of the District Profile report

Two tabs. Explore the Single-Term Achievement tab for performance in one term or the Growth and Achievement tab for achievement comparisons and growth between two terms.

Optional filters. Apply filters for ethnicity, gender, and/or program for data across a district, as well as school name for data across schools.

Average RIT. Consider how schools perform compared to the district’s average RIT for a given grade.

Grade details. Find school data for each grade and easily access the School Profile report.

Help content. Learn more about the data points in each chart.

Report requirements

The District Profile report provides data visualizations with the requirements described in the table below.

Table 1. Requirements for District Profile report

Detail Requirements
MAP Growth test types with reportable data Any test event that’s considered a growth measure. Screening tests and tests taken outside the official test window are not considered growth measures. For more details about growth measures, explore Invalid Tests and Unofficial RIT Scores.
Date range for reportable data

All fall, winter, and spring terms, beginning with academic year 2020–2021.

Note: Term Rostered is only available for the current and previous academic year.
MAP Roles for report access District Assessment Coordinator. Learn more at Choose MAP Roles.
Note: This report does not have a print or export feature. However, you can print or generate a PDF directly from your browser’s print function. Be sure your selections are set to print background graphics.

Report access

To access the District Profile report:

  1. Log in at start.mapnwea.org and choose MAP Growth from the main menu.

    Choose MAP Growth from the start page main menu.

    On the start page, choose MAP Growth.

  2. Select District Profile.

    The link to the District Profile report is in the Showing All Reports column.

    Select District Profile from the MAP Growth menu on the start page.

Exploring the Single-Term Achievement tab

Use the Single-Term Achievement tab to understand your district’s MAP Growth achievement in one term.

Accessing single-term achievement data for all grades

To get single-term achievement data for all grades in a district:

  1. Make sure you're on the Single-Term Achievement tab.

  2. Confirm or adjust the default values for each required field (Term Rostered, Term Tested, and Course).

  3. Select Update and review the results. You can sort the data by any of the column headers.

    Note: Each time you change any of the required fields, it’s important to select Update to refresh your data.

    When working through steps 1–3 at the top of the Single-Term Achievement tab, the order is Single-Term Achievement, Term Rostered, Term Tested, Course, and Update.

    Steps for getting achievement data for a single term

Adjusting required fields on the Single-Term Achievement tab

When you access the District Profile report, the required fields will be populated with default values. You may want to adjust the values to better meet your needs. Table 2 explains the required fields.

Table 2. Required fields on the Single-Term Achievement tab

Required Field Explanation
Term Rostered

The term that reflects the rostering relationships (for example, students in classes, classes in grades, etc.) that you’re interested in viewing.

Note: You can only select a term from the current or previous academic year.
Term Tested

The term with the test events you want to see. For example, in the fall you might want to see results from the previous spring.

Note: You can select the current term or any previous term beginning with the 2020–2021 academic year.
Course A specific test and/or a grouping of tests licensed to a school, district, or state.

Adding optional filters

To add optional filters for Ethnicity, Gender, and/or Program:

  1. Select Apply Filters to expand the Filters section.

    Apply Filters is located after Update on the Single-Term Achievement tab.

    Single-Term Achievement tab with Apply Filters highlighted

  2. From the drop-down menus that appear, select options for Ethnicity, Gender, and/or Program filters.

    The optional filters for Ethnicity, Gender and/or Program appear after the required filters of Term Rostered, Term Tested, and Course.

    Optional Ethnicity, Gender, and/or Program filters

    Note: You will only find filter options that apply to your selected data from the required fields. Additionally, no results will display if no data matches your filter selections.

Clearing optional filters

To clear filters:

  1. Remove a filter by selecting the X associated with that filter selection. Remove all filters by selecting Clear All.

  2. Select Close to collapse the filter section.

    Example showing three applied filters: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific islander,Female, and Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL). The option to Close the section is located after Clear All.

    Single-Term Achievement tab with Clear All and Close highlighted

Understanding single-term achievement data

For each grade within a district, you can review the median achievement percentile and a breakdown of achievement percentiles by quintile. You can also find the district-wide average RIT for each grade, as well as the number of students who have a valid growth measure in that grade.

he Single-Term Achievement tab displays data for grades, median percentiles, achievement percentile breakdowns by quintile, and the number of students for a single term.

Median and distribution data on the Single-Term Achievement tab

For a visual explanation of how data is arranged for median and distributions, consider the diagram

The median percentile is represented first, followed by the distribution of student scores across quintiles.

Visualization with median percentile and distribution labeled

Table 3. Data and explanations for single-term achievement medians and distributions

Data Point Explanation
Achievement (also called Single-Term Achievement) Student performance at a single moment in time. You can use achievement percentiles to understand how student scores compare to other same-grade US student scores.
Percentile Norm-based information about where a student’s observed score falls within the range of scores produced by other same-grade US students. 
Median Percentile The middle percentile when a group of percentiles are ordered from lowest to highest.
Distribution A representation of the range of scores for a group of students, indicating the number and/or percentages of scores within five percentile levels, or quintiles.
Quintiles Five percentile levels based on NWEA normative data: 1st–20th (red), 21st–40th (orange), 41st–60th (yellow), 61st–80th (green), and greater than 80th (blue).
Average RIT The average RIT score for a group of RIT scores, calculated by adding all the scores within a group and then dividing that sum by the number of scores within the group.
Number of Students The number of students rostered in the selected Term Rostered field who also have a valid growth measure in the selected Term Tested field. For more details about growth measures, explore Invalid Tests and Unofficial RIT Scores.

Reviewing grade details for schools across a district

In addition to viewing a district’s data for all grades, you can choose any grade to dig deeper and explore grade details for all schools across the district. From there, you can also easily access the School Profile and review data for classes within the grade. These instructions will work on both tabs of the District Profile report.

To find data for all the schools across a district within single grade:

  1. Select a grade.

    At the grade-level view, grades are in the first column and may be ordered from lowest to highest or from highest to lowest.

    Single-Term Achievement tab with a grade selected

  2. Explore data. You can sort the data by any of the column headers.

  3. Return to all grades or visit the School Profile report.

    1. To return to a view of all the grades, select All grades.

    2. To review data for classes within the grade on the School Profile, select any of the schools.

      Explore data for classes in grade; to return select All Grades and slect a School to review data

      Single-Term Achievement tab with all schools across a district for a single grade

Adding optional filters for schools

In addition to the filters for Ethnicity, Gender, and Program, you can find a filter for School Name when reviewing data for all the schools across a district within a single grade.

To apply this additional filter:

  1. Select Apply Filters to expand the Filters section.

    Apply Filters is located after Update on the Growth and Achievement tab.

    Single-Term Achievement tab with Apply Filters highlighted

  2. From the drop-down menus that appear, select options for any or all filters for Ethnicity, Gender, Program, and School Name.

    The optional filters for Ethnicity, Gender, Program, Class Name, and Educator appear after the required filters of Term Rostered, Term Tested, and Course. 

    Optional Ethnicity, Gender, Program, and School Name filters

Note: Your filter selections for Ethnicity, Gender, and Program will remain the same between data for all grades and a single grade. Your filter selections for School Name, however, are only available when considering data for a single grade. When you select the All grades button to return to all grades, your filter selections for School Name will no longer apply.
You will only find filter options that apply to your selected data from the required fields. Additionally, no results will display if no data matches your filter selections.

To learn how to remove filters, see Clearing optional filters.

Exploring the Growth and Achievement tab

The second tab on the District Profile report is the Growth and Achievement tab. On this tab you can explore data across two terms through medians and distributions for growth data and two terms of achievement data.

Accessing growth and achievement data for all grades

To get growth and achievement data for all grades within a district:

  1. Make sure you are on the Growth and Achievement tab.

  2. Confirm or adjust the default values for each required field (Term Rostered, Start Term, End Term, and Course).

  3. Select Update and review the results. You can sort the data by any of the column headers.

Note: Each time you change any of the required fields, it’s important to select Update to refresh your data.

When working through steps 1–3 at the top of the Growth and Achievement tab, the order is Growth and Achievement, Start Term, End Term, Course, and Update.

Steps for getting growth and achievement data across two terms

Adjusting required fields on the Growth and Achievement tab

When you access the District Profile report, the required fields will be populated with default values. You may want to adjust the values to better meet your needs. Table 4 explains the required fields.

Table 4. Required fields on the Growth and Achievement tab

Required Field Explanation
Term Rostered

The term that reflects the rostering relationships (for example, students in classes, classes in grades, etc.) that you’re interested in viewing. You may choose the current term or a previous term.



Note: The report will only display data based on students rostered in this term, even if other students have valid growth measures in both terms tested.
Start Term

The term with the test events you want to see, and in this case, the earlier of the two terms you are considering. For example, in the spring you might want to review results from the previous spring as the Start Term to the current spring term as the End Term.

You may choose from the available terms that took place before the selected End Term.

Note: Only some pairs of terms will be available based on the Growth Comparison Period.
End Term

The term with the test events you want to see, and in this case, the later of the two terms you are considering. For example, in the spring you might want to review results from the previous spring as the Start Term to the current spring term as the End Term.

You may choose the same term as the term rostered or an earlier term that took place after the selected Start Term.

Note: The District Profile report is available for all fall, winter, and spring terms, beginning with academic year 2020–2021.
Course

A specific test and/or a grouping of tests licensed to a school, district, or state.

Applying optional filters on the Growth and Achievement tab

You can apply the same filters from the Single-Term Achievement tab to the Growth and Achievement tab. To learn more, refer to instructions for Adding optional filters and Clearing optional filters.

Understanding growth and achievement data

For each grade within a district, you can review growth and achievement comparisons through the median percentiles and distributions of any data that’s available across both selected terms. You can also find the number of students in the grade who have valid growth measures in both terms.

Review growth and achievement comparisons through the median percentiles and distributions

Median and distribution data on the Growth and Achievement tab

For a visual explanation of how the data is arranged, consider the diagram below.

The median percentile is represented first, followed by the distribution of student scores across quintiles.

Visualization with median percentile and distribution labeled

Table 5. Data and explanations for growth and achievement medians and distributions

Data Point Explanation
Growth Growth is an inference about how student performance changes across two test events. You can use growth percentiles to understand how changes in student scores compare to changes in other US student scores.
Achievement Comparisons Student performance at two different test events. You can use achievement comparisons to understand how a group of student scores has changed across two test events.
Percentile Norm-based information about where a student’s observed score falls within the range of scores produced by other same-grade US students. 
Median Percentile The middle percentile when a group of percentiles are ordered from lowest to highest.
Distribution A representation of the range of scores for a group of students, indicating the number and/or percentages of scores within five percentile levels, or quintiles.
Quintiles Five percentile levels based on NWEA normative data: 1st–20th (red), 21st–40th (orange), 41st–60th (yellow), 61st–80th (green), and greater than 80th (blue).
Number of Students The number of students rostered in the selected Term Rostered field with a valid growth measure in both of the selected Term Tested fields. For more details about growth measures, explore Invalid Tests and Unofficial RIT Scores.

Finding classes on the Growth and Achievement tab

To access growth and achievement data for all schools across a district within a single grade, you can follow the instructions listed in Reviewing grade details for schools across a district.

Applying insights

The wealth of customizable options and data visualizations in the District Profile report can help you understand complex situations, guide further research, and, in turn, make better decisions. Explore the ideas below for when to use this report and the kinds of questions it can help you answer.

When to use the District Profile report

Consider using the report at these times:

  • After testing, to see achievement data, and after testing across multiple terms, to compare achievement data and monitor achievement trends

  • When trying to identify the impact of past decisions (e.g., additional intervention resources, a new curriculum, etc.)

  • When evaluating where to allocate extra resources to maximize student growth

  • When analyzing the performance of student subpopulations to ensure equitable student outcomes

  • When finding areas of success for celebration and motivating staff and students

  • When facilitating staff conversations about school performance and trends

  • When sharing school-level performance with district and state stakeholders

How to use the District Profile report

The report can help you answer these questions:

  • How is the district doing overall?

  • Is one grade performing better in some courses than others (e.g., math vs. reading)?

  • Which classes in each grade need the most support? Which classes are excelling?

  • What differences exist when examining this grade's performance in a subject by ethnicity and gender?

  • Are there trends in achievement at the grade level year after year or between terms?

  • What was the impact of a major change that was made last year? Did it result in any positive change at the district or grade level?

  • How much are students growing compared to similar students in the NWEA norm group?

  • Which grades are showing the most or least growth?

  • What are the higher/lower achieving grades or schools in my district?