Technical report
Spanish MAP Reading Fluency Technical Report
April 2026
Description
This technical report provides a comprehensive overview of the Spanish MAP Reading Fluency assessment, an adaptive, group-administered tool designed to evaluate and support early literacy development for Pre-K through grade 4 students. The report details the assessment’s design framework, grounded in the Simple View of Reading, and explains how it measures both foundational reading skills (such as phonological awareness, phonics, and language comprehension) and oral reading fluency, including accuracy, rate, and comprehension.
It describes the structure of the assessment, including adaptive routing between foundational skills and passage reading, as well as the development of item pools and test forms tailored to Spanish language learning and biliteracy contexts.
See MoreTopics: Early learning, Equity, Measurement & scaling, Test design
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