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Spring Academic Assessment Results and Interpretative Considerations
Patrick W. Nolten, Ph.D.
Assistant Superintendent for Assessment and Accountability
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Objectives
• Review district level participation rates by socio-demographic groups;
• Review district level results of NWEA MAP Growth Assessment by grade level and socio-demographic groups;
• Demonstrate reading and mathematics quintile shift relative to earlier assessments; and
• Understand interpretive considerations with corresponding plausible impact on student performance.
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NWEA MAP Growth Assessment
• Universal reading and mathematics assessment administered online to students in kindergarten through eighth grade;
• Aligned to the Illinois Learning Standards;
• Typically administered three times per year (fall/winter/spring);
• Administered in February/March and May/June this academic year;
• Facilitates comparison to a nationally representative, demographically stratified sample of students using 2020 norms; and
• Full academic year administration likely to occur during 21-22 academic year.
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Participation Rates by Race-Ethnicity
79
68
80 8288
85
74
84 8590
Asian African-American/Black Hispanic/Latinx Two or More Races White
Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Participation Rates by Student Group
7176
8074
7985
Special Education Economic Disadvantage English Learner
Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Median Reading Percentile Rank by Grade
88 86
78 77 77 76 74 7376
8883
7874 74 73 73 72 73
7672 72 72 73 71
68 68 67
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Median Reading Percentile Rank by Race-Ethnicity
87
48
61
8278
87
43
56
8076
84
40
48
7571
Asian African-American/Black Hispanic/Latinx Two or More Races White
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Median Reading Percentile Rank by Student Group
40
5652
33
5249
29
45 43
Special Education Economic Disadvantage English Learner
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Median Mathematics Percentile Rank by Grade
8683
7376
7276 75 74
79
91
8176 74 74
71 70 69 71
80
70 68 70 7268 69 69 67
K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Median Mathematics Percentile Rank by Race-Ethnicity
91
36
58
79 77
91
33
53
7874
87
30
49
7370
Asian African-American/Black Hispanic/Latinx Two or More Races White
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Mathematics Achievement by Student Group
37
51 53
33
45
58
30
40
50
Special Education Economic Disadvantage English Learner
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
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Reading Achievement by Quintile
46 4436
26 2526
14 1517
8 911
6 8 9
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
High High Average Average Low Average Low
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Mathematics Achievement by Quintile
44 42 36
25 2626
15 1718
9 9 12
6 7 8
Winter 2020 Winter 2021 Spring 2021
High High Average Average Low Average Low
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Interpretive and Contextual Considerations
• Compressed assessment calendar as a result of ISBE mandate to begin accountability testing on/after March 15, 2021;
• Depending on grade level, students were sequentially administered:• Winter NWEA MAP Growth (mid-February to mid-March)
• Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR; April to mid-May)
• Illinois Science Assessment (ISA; mid-March to mid-May)
• Dynamic Learning Maps – Alternative Assessment (DLM-AA; mid-March to mid-May)
• ACCESS for ELLs (mid-March to mid-May)
• Spring NWEA MAP Growth (mid-May to mid-June)
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Interpretive and Contextual Considerations
• Impact of assessment activities on instructional time and opportunity to learn;
• COVID-19 pandemic resulting in screen, remote learning, and assessment fatigue;
• Variable impact of socio-emotional functioning on academic performance;
• Declines impacting all student groups likely reflective of larger contextual forces influencing performance;
• Anecdotal reports of students demonstrating lesser levels of engagement, verbalizations expressing fatigue, and lower levels of perseverance;
• Winter to spring performance changes noted nationally; and
• Higher confidence that results reflect district performance as a whole when participation exceeds 95%.
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Assessment Next Steps
• All students in grades kindergarten through eighth grades will have the opportunity to be assessed using NWEA MAP Growth during the typical fall/winter/spring windows during the 21-22 academic year;
• Ongoing academically talented/gifted identification process continues through the summer with make-up testing available at the beginning of the 21-22 academic year;
• Anticipated receipt of spring accountability testing results including the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) and SAT later this summer; and
• Distribution of attendance, grades, standards-referenced performance, and assessment data to existing and/or subsequent schools of attendance.
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