Measurement & scaling
This technical report is written for measurement professionals and administrators to help evaluate the quality of the MAP Growth assessments.
By: Patrick Meyer
Products: MAP Growth
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Item response theory, Test design
Achievement and growth norms for course-specific MAP Growth Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 tests
This report describes the norming procedures used to produce the user norms for the course-specific MAP Growth Mathematics tests in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2.
By: Yeow Meng Thum, Wei He
Products: MAP Growth
Topics: Measurement & scaling
Simulation study for evaluating MAP Growth item pools with grade-level constraints
This simulation study examines the measurement precision, item exposure rates, and the depth of the MAP Growth item pools under various grade-level restrictions.
This study investigates whether rapid guessing is a stable trait-like behavior or if rapid guessing is determined mostly by situational variables, and whether rapid guessing over the course of several tests is associated with certain psychological and background measures. We find that rapid guessing tends to be more state-like compared to academic achievement scores, which are fairly stable and that repeated rapid guessing is strongly associated with studentsā academic self-efficacy and self-management scores.
By: James Soland, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: Measurement & scaling, School & test engagement, Social-emotional learning
In this study, we conducted empirical and simulation analyses in which we scored surveys using item response theory (IRT) models that do and do not account for response styles, and then used those different scores in growth models and compared results.
By: James Soland, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: Growth modeling, Measurement & scaling, Social-emotional learning
Three measures of test adaptation based on optimal test information
This study extends the work of Reckase, Zu, and Kim (2019) by introducing three new measures of test adaptation.
Topics: Measurement & scaling
Equating WCPM scores across passages of MAP Reading Fluency
NWEA equated words-correct-per-minute (WCPM) scores from oral reading passages included in the NWEA MAP Reading Fluency assessment.
By: Jing Chen, Mary Ann Simpson
Products: MAP Reading Fluency