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Welcome.

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If you're a Des Moines Public
Schools parent or guardian,

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your student will soon be
bringing home a measures of academic

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progress or MAP student progress
report like this one.

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The report shows your student's
progress in math and reading so

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far this year. To show you how
to read the chart,

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we've created one for a
fictitious student who we will call

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Alejandra Crooks. First, let's
look at Alejandra's bar chart.

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FA 15 means fall of 2015. WI 16
is winter of 2016.

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The dark bar on the left is
Alejandra's RIT score.

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The score reflects her academic
knowledge, skills,

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and abilities.

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The bar in the middle is the
district average score.

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The bar on the right is the
national average score.

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Here we see Alejandra's improved
from a 214 in the fall to a 225

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by winter.

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The district average improved,
as did the national average.

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Over on the right side of the
page,

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the information is in list form
with the newest score at the top.

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Here we see Alejandro's scores
of 214 and 225 in bold,

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along with a range that
represents the margin of error.

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This chart shows she grew 11
points while Map projected she

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would grow only 4 points from
fall to winter,

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she exceeded that expectation by
7 points.

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All the way to the right, her
percentile range is also listed.

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In the fall of 2015,

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Alejandro scored as well or
better than 30% of US students her

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age. This winter,

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she scored as well or better
than 47% of students her age.

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Finally, below the bar charts,

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there is information about how
your student is currently

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performing in specific goal
areas.

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Alejandra is performing average
in operations and algebraic

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thinking, geometry, and real and
complex number systems.

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Her performance in statistics
and probability is low average.

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You can apply the same
instructions to the reading section of

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the student progress report.

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Your students growth will be
assessed again in the spring,

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giving you even more information
about where your student is

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excelling and where they can use
some additional support.

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For more information about the
map test,

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visit dmschools.org/maptest.