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District presents winter assessment overview: Acadience, NWEA MAP and i‑Ready show incremental gains
Summary
District assessment leaders reported small, steady improvements in early numeracy/literacy benchmarks and showed a high statistical correlation between NWEA MAP and i‑Ready math diagnostics for grades 6–8.
At a March 24 board meeting, the Shawnee Mission School District’s assessment leaders gave a high-level summary of midyear results from Acadience (early-literacy probes), NWEA MAP (adaptive growth assessments) and the new i‑Ready math diagnostic used this year in grades 6–8.
“Low and slow,” Director of Assessment and Research Dr. David Grama said, stressing that the district’s strategy favors incremental, sustainable gains rather than year-to-year spikes. He summarized midyear Acadience and MAP distributions and showed two years of improvement in Acadience numeracy benchmarks and modest, steady movement in MAP RIT averages.
Pam Lewis, associate superintenden…
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