Placement in Coach

How students are placed in Coach

MAP Reading Fluency data is used to inform placement in Coach’s 1:1 personalized reading pathway. After students complete the MAP Reading Fluency assessment for Beginning of Year (BoY), Middle of Year (MoY), or End of Year (EoY), their results are used for placement in Coach.

Table 1. Student Placement in Coach

Assessment Placement Details
Foundational Skills All students who were assigned or routed to MAP Reading Fluency’s Foundational Skills emergent reader track will be placed into Coach’s Early Reader Skills Scaffold (ERSS).  
English Oral Reading Students taking English MAP Reading Fluency and assigned or routed to oral reading passages will be placed into Coach using an adaptive method based on their English MAP Reading Fluency Scaled Words Correct per Minute (SWCPM) score.  
Spanish Oral Reading Students taking Spanish MAP Reading Fluency and assigned or routed to oral reading passages will be placed into Coach using an adaptive method based on their Spanish Scaled Words Correct per Minute (SWCPM) performance level (below, approaching, meets, exceeds). 
Students who haven’t tested Students who have not taken the MAP Reading Fluency assessment can use Coach K–6 English and Spanish without assessment-based placement. Students are automatically assigned based on the mean score of the grade/term and the corresponding practice contents.

Test forms that support placement in Coach

The following test forms support placement:

  • Foundational Skills

  • Foundational Skills Beginner

  • Dyslexia Screener with Foundational Skills (English)

  • Adaptive Oral Reading

  • Adaptive Oral Reading – Passages Only

Linking study

For more information about how MAP Reading Fluency assessments inform placement in Coach, access the linking study.

Progress monitoring

Coach doesn’t include progress monitoring. You should continue to use MAP Reading Fluency for accurate and reliable progress monitoring tools to evaluate student growth.

Early readers

If a student is identified as an early reader, their reading tutoring with Maya focuses on building 40 distinct skills via the Early Reader Skills Scaffold. These activities are heavily scaffolded and research-based to provide significant support in improving the students’ early literacy learning and development.

Each activity builds on the previous activities, affording the student opportunities to practice and develop key skills for reading mastery. Each activity is relatively short, featuring 4-7 items.

How to change the placement recommendation in Coach

You can adjust student placement using these steps:

  1. In the Coach Dashboard, access the Tracking Report.

    Select the Tracking Report

  2. Choose the student whose placement you want to adjust and select Configure Practice.

    Choose the student whose placement you want to adjust and select Configure Practice

  3. Select the language(s) the student will practice in.

    Select the language the student will practice in

  4. Choose Standard MAP Reading Fluency Practice or Early Reader Skills Scaffold.

    Choose Standard MAP Reading Fluency Practice or Early Reader Skills Scaffold

  5. Choose the language Maya will use when tutoring the student and select Next or Update.

    Choose the language Maya will use when tutoring the student

  6. Repeat for the other language, if applicable.

    Note: Students practicing in Spanish can only receive instructions and interventions in Spanish.

  7. When you return to the dashboard, you’ll see a scaffold icon next to each student assigned to Early Reader Skills Scaffold (color coded to indicate language).

    A scaffold icon appears for each student who has been assigned ERSS (color coded by language)