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Educators who use MAP Growth K–2 assessments aligned to Common Core content standards receive three types of assessments, each with a distinct purpose: Growth, Screening Tests, and Skills Checklists . This guide is intended to help educators understand the Screening Tests and Skills Checklists . It covers what each assesses, how to determine which to give, and when to assess . You’ll also find an explanation of how Growth fits into the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework by serving as a universal screener.  \nThe three MAP Growth K–2 test types  \n\n| MAP GROWTH K–2 ASSESSMENT TYPE | GROWTH | SCREENING TESTS | SKILLS CHECKLISTS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Purpose | Computer adaptive test\u003Cbr>that assesses achievement according to standards-aligned content; scores from repeated administrations can be used to measure growth over time | To get baseline information for a new student who’s in the earliest stages of learning, particularly a kindergarten or pre-K student | To assess knowledge of a specific skill before or after teaching it, or after seeing Screening Test or Growth results/scores |\n| Testing frequency | Once each term during test window | Once, at the end of pre-Kor when a student enters kindergarten | As a pre-and/or post-test |\n\nScreening Tests and Skills Checklists: Determining which to give  \nScreening Tests  \nScreening Tests are helpful in gathering information about students for whom you may have no previous data . They’re meant to assess the most basic foundational skills . Use this chart to help determine whether students need to take Screening Tests .  \n\n| SCREENING TEST | WHAT’S ASSESSED? | WHO SHOULD TAKE IT? |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Early Literacy | Phonological awareness, letter identification, matching letters to sounds, concepts of print | Pre-kindergarten or beginning kindergarten students.\u003Cbr>Why assess: To get baseline information on general foundational skills, if not otherwise known |\n| Early Numeracy | Counting, matching, identifying numerals, computation with manipulatives | Pre-kindergarten or beginning kindergarten students.\u003Cbr>Why assess: To get baseline information\u003Cbr>on general foundational skills, if not\u003Cbr>otherwise known |\n\nMAP Growth K–2: How to choose Screening Tests and Skills Checklists   \nSkills Checklists  \nSkills Checklists offer a good way to gather information about what a student knows in certain skill areas . After you have Growth results, look at your students’ goal area scores . Then use the charts on the next few pages to help determine which Skills Checklist(s) to administer if a student has low instructional area scores . Depending on the student’s struggles, these charts can help you determine the Skills Checklist(s) to administer in order to get more information .  \nKey to interpreting the charts  \n• Colored boxes represent overlapping skills between Common Core instructional areas and a specific Skills Checklist  \n• Colored boxes with an  icon represent suggested starting points  \n• Blank cells indicate that the content of a Skills Checklist doesn’t pertain to the content of the Common Core instructional areas*  \n• Skills Checklists in reading isolate individual skills that are fundamental building blocks to independently reading connected text. As such, there is considerable overlap with the Foundational Skills instructional area for all grades. Recommended starting points for each grade level should be based on points of difficulty for students in each of these grade levels. The recommended Skills Checklists for the remaining three MAP Growth K–2 instructional areas help the teacher determine if the student with low instructional scores in one of those areas is also struggling with decoding  \n* Foundational Skills and Number and Operations cover more of the foundational elements of reading and ma","cbCaihNusEGADv8n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihNusEGADv8n","pdf",151129,"English","# MAP Growth K–2: How to choose Screening Tests and Skills Checklists\n## The three MAP Growth K–2 test types\n## Screening Tests and Skills Checklists: Determining which to give\n## Screening Tests\n## Skills Checklists\n## Key to interpreting the charts","[{\"question\":\"What are the three assessment types in MAP Growth K–2 and what does each do?\",\"answer\":\"MAP Growth K–2 includes Growth, Screening Tests, and Skills Checklists. 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