MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills assessment

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Description

An NWEA English early-literacy assessment for Grades K–3 measuring phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, and language comprehension, with achievement and growth norms.

Components

• MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills achievement and growth norms for Grades K-3 in three domains: The report documents achievement and growth user norms for English MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills, covering "Phonological Awareness, Phonics & Word Recognition, and Language Comprehension" for Grades K-3. Achievement norms give percentile rankings for fall, winter, and spring; growth norms cover fall-to-winter, winter-to-spring, and fall-to-spring gains. Snapshot tables (Tables 3.3-3.14) present these norms for each grade and domain, scheduled for release in Summer 2022. (Wei He (2022))

Claims

• Cross-term Foundational Skills scores were moderately correlated, with correlations ranging from 0.48 to 0.82 depending on domain and grade [+W]
• Foundational Skills test scores generally increased across terms and grades, with less growth observed at higher grades [+W]
• The multivariate normality assumption of the norming model was judged met for all domains and grades, despite some tail deviations in Q-Q plots [+W]

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Key Sources

• Wei He, NWEA Psychometric Solutions. (2022). Achievement and Growth Norms for English MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills. NWEA. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/achievement-and-growth-norms-for-english-map-reading-fluency-foundational-skills/

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title	MAP Reading Fluency Foundational Skills assessment
description	An NWEA English early-literacy assessment for Grades K–3 measuring phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, and language comprehension, with achievement and growth norms.
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