TEST ACCOMMODATIONS: MAP AND MAP FOR PRIMARY GRADES

MAP Accommodations:

The adaptive nature of MAP assessments makes them appropriate assessments for students with a wide range of skills and achievement levels. Allowable non-embedded accommodations are listed in the table. These accommodations impact neither the validity nor the alignment of the assessments; they do not provide assistance in understanding or solving test items. Any and all special program students who are administered MAP Growth assessments using one or more of the accommodations listed below are subjected to the same reporting specifications as regular education students. While NWEA does not place restrictions on which accommodations can be used, the Leadership & Innovation department in collaboration with SPED, 504, Bilingual and Dyslexia encourage staff to provide minimal accommodations in order to gain a RIT score that reflects the student’s true instructional level where no assistance is needed. At minimum, any accommodation should be as consistent as possible with those given in the classroom not necessarily those provided during STAAR testing. The following table provides examples of allowed accommodations.

MAP Accessibility and Accommodations

Timing or Scheduling of the Assessment Directions Read at the Beginning of the Test

◼ Offer frequent breaks ◼ If necessary, divide testing beyond initial session ◼ Administer as per testing windows ◼ Read or reread directions to students ◼ Sign directions for the deaf student ◼ Use auditory amplification devices, hearing aids, noise buffers, etc.

Test Setting

◼ Test an individual student in a separate setting if necessary ◼ Test a small group of students in a separate, but familiar location, for example, counselor’s office ◼ Minimize distractions; for example, use a study carrel ◼ Text-to-Speech for Kinder and 1st Grade

Assessments ◼ Math Tools – (Calculator, ruler, protractor)

Available only with the specific question items. ◼ Highlighter, Answer Eliminator, Keyboard

Navigation, Notepad

Embedded NWEA MAP Accommodations

Allowable Accommodations or Tools

◼ Bilingual Dictionary on Math and/or Science (LPAC

Decision) ◼ Text-to-Speech (ARD, 504, MTSS or LPAC Decision for

grades 2-12)*Grades where Science STAAR is not administered, the campus would refer to Reading/Math Accommodations. ◼ Scratch paper (blank, lined, or non-labeled grid) and pencil (Available for all students) ◼ STAAR reference sheets and formula charts are NOT allowed for MAP testing. ◼ Supplemental aids are NOT allowed for MAP testing ◼ Dictionaries are NOT allowed for MAP testing

(NWEA MAP assesses Foundational Language Skills: Vocabulary) ◼ Calculators are NOT allowed for MAP testing

NWEA MAP is an assessment to identify a student zone of proximal development and growth.

SPED and Emergent Bilingual Students

◼ EB student accommodations need to be documented by the LPAC committee. For

BOY MAP test, there should not be any accommodations provided to EB students unless they have been documented by the

LPAC. Exceptions to this would be an EB student whose accommodations have been set forth by another committee (i.e. 504, ARD). ◼ SPED - NWEA MAP Math Assessment is designated for students to take without a calculator. The availability of a calculator is part of an item’s difficulty; therefore, the embedded calculator will be sufficient in providing students their needed accommodation.