{"id":736,"date":"2019-02-07T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/?p=736"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:43:23","slug":"nwea-talking-points-more-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2019\/02\/07\/nwea-talking-points-more-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"NWEA Talking Points- MORE WE KNOW&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2016\/03\/seesaw-brain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-266\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2016\/03\/seesaw-brain-300x185.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NWEA is an assessment that is based on academic levels and it provides the<br \/>\ninstructional level of a student in the tested area.\u00a0\u00a0If a student is performing at two<br \/>\ngrade levels below the norm grade level, he or she would not put be put back two grade<br \/>\nlevels. Instead, teachers would work to remediate in the weak areas. The same holds<br \/>\ntrue for a student who may be performing at a higher than average level.\u00a0\u00a0There is certain<br \/>\ncontent that requires student learning and exposure, but a teacher may need to<br \/>\ndifferentiate how the content is delivered.\u00a0\u00a0There are standards and content specific to<br \/>\ngrade levels that are important to a student.\u00a0The teacher brings the complexity and rigor<br \/>\nto the classroom.\u00a0\u00a0MAP NWEA data is just the springboard for targeted instruction.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0NWEA provides a norms chart that shows beginning, middle, and end of year<br \/>\nnormative data based on the RIT (Rasch Unit) scale.\u00a0\u00a0The norms chart is a document to<br \/>\nshow what NWEA has seen as the AVERAGE student performance on the<br \/>\nassessments.\u00a0\u00a0NWEA has additional documents including the Michigan Linking Study<br \/>\nand the College and Career Readiness Linking study that show at what student<br \/>\nperformance percentile a student needs to be performing at in order to be proficient on<br \/>\nthe MEAP or ACT.\u00a0\u00a0While the norm chart shows the 50%ile, the Michigan Linking Study<br \/>\nand College and Career Readiness Linking study will show higher percentiles. What is<br \/>\nreported on the norms chart again is the 50%ile at each grade level.\u00a0\u00a0For parents who see<br \/>\nthat their 4 th \u00a0grader is performing at a 6 th \u00a0grade level based on the norms chart, the student<br \/>\nis performing at only an average (50%ile) 6 th \u00a0grade level. See parent resource link.<\/li>\n<li>NWEA data is used in many districts when making decisions about what instructional program may be most appropriate for students.\u00a0\u00a0This document is the\u201cComparative Data to Inform Instructional Decisions.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0The top line represents the 95%for each grade level (see parent resources).\u00a0\u00a0Many districts use this percentile as one ofthe many indicators for identifying students for placement in a gifted program.\u00a0\u00a0Therounded mean is the 50%ile from the norm document. See parent resource link.<\/li>\n<li>NWEA is one of multiple assessments used in the Dearborn Public Schools. It isnationally normed and an objective instrument. It should be interpreted and used withcare to provide appropriate and differentiated instruction for students K-8 th grades.Dearborn has provided a grade level equivalent in reading and math on the standardbased report card based on the NWEA 2011 Normative Study.<\/li>\n<li>NWEA Parent Resources can be found at the following link: https:\/\/legacysupport.nwea.org\/sites\/www.nwea.org\/files\/resources\/ParentToolkit.pdf<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NWEA is an assessment that is based on academic levels and it provides the instructional level of a student in the tested area.\u00a0\u00a0If a student is performing at two grade levels below the norm grade level, he or she would not put be put back two grade levels. Instead, teachers would work to remediate in <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2019\/02\/07\/nwea-talking-points-more-we-know\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1021"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}