MAP Growth theory of action (2024)

Research brief

High dosage tutoring for academically at-risk students

This brief provides a review of the research on high dosage tutoring as an intervention strategy for supporting at-risk students. It highlights the benefits and the non-negotiable factors for effective implementation and usage.

By: Ayesha K. Hashim, Miles Davison, Sofia Postell, Jazmin Isaacs

Topics: , Equity, Growth, Informing instruction

Research brief

Typical learning for whom? Guidelines for selecting benchmarks to calculate months of learning

To describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, researchers have translated test scores into months of learning to claim how many months/years students are behind in school. Despite its perceived accessibility, there are major downsides to this translation. To inform future uses by researchers and media, we discuss in this brief how to calculate this metric as well as its trade-offs.

By: Megan Kuhfeld, Melissa Diliberti, Andrew McEachin, Jon Schweig, Louis T. Mariano

Topics: , Equity, Growth, Growth modeling,

Research brief

Education’s long COVID: 2022–23 achievement data reveal stalled progress toward pandemic recovery

New research shows progress toward academic recovery stalled in 2022-23. This research brief covers data from 6.7 million US students examining academic gains relative to pre-pandemic years as well as tracking the gap in achievement between COVID year student groups compared to their pre-pandemic peers.

By: Karyn Lewis, Megan Kuhfeld

Products: MAP Growth

Topics: , Equity

Technical brief

Technical appendix: 2022-23 achievement data reveal stalled progress toward pandemic recovery

The purpose of this technical appendix is to share more detailed results and describe the sample and methods used in the research in Education’s long COVID: 2022-23 achievement data reveal stalled progress toward pandemic recovery report.

By: Jazmin Isaacs, Megan Kuhfeld, Karyn Lewis

Topics: , Equity

Research report

Executive Summary: Content proximity spring 2022 pilot study

This executive summary outlines results from the Content Proximity spring 2022 pilot study, including information on the validity, reliability, and test score comparability of MAP Growth assessments that leverage this new item-selection algorithm.

By: Patrick Meyer, Ann Hu, Xueming (Sylvia) Li

Products: MAP Growth

Topics: Computer adaptive testing, , Test design

Research report

Content Proximity Spring 2022 Pilot Study Research Report

The purpose of this research report is to provide detailed information about updates to the MAP Growth item-selection algorithm. This brief includes results from the Content Proximity pilot study, including information on the validity, reliability, and test score comparability of MAP Growth assessments that leverage this new item-selection algorithm.

By: Patrick Meyer, Ann Hu, Xueming (Sylvia) Li

Products: MAP Growth

Topics: Computer adaptive testing, , Test design

Research report

Achievement and Growth Norms for Course-Specific MAP Growth Tests

This report documents the procedure used to produce the achievement and growth user norms for a series of the course-specific MAP® Growth™ subject tests, including Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Integrated Math I, Integrated Math II, Integrated Math III, and Biology/Life Science. Among these tests, Integrated Math I, Integrated Math II, Integrated Math III, and Biology/Life Science were the first time to have their norms available. The remaining tests, i.e., Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2, had their norms updated including receiving more between-term growth norms by using more recent test events. Procedure for norm sample selection and a model-based approach using the multivariate true score model (Thum & He, 2019) that factors out known imprecision of scores to generate the norms are also provided in detail, along with the snapshots of the achievement and growth norms for each test.

By: Wei He

Products: MAP Growth

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