Your child may have mentioned NWEA testing to you. This is a special computer-adaptive test—MAP Growth—that we use here at Diven (and beyond) to measure your child’s skills. Adaptive means that the test will adapt to your child: if your child answers a question correctly, the next question is harder. If your child answers a question incorrectly, the next one is easier. The cool thing about this test is that it measures what your child knows, not a grade level. The test is not a pass/fail, just a way to track growth. You’ll receive a RIT score that will show if your child is performing on, above, or below grade level. This helps you and your child’s teachers decide where best to focus your child’s education. You’ll receive your child’s RIT scores at Parent-Teacher conferences or with your report card, and we’ll do the test a few times a year so we can make sure that your child is growing academically.
Head over to YourReadingPath.com and enter your child’s age and RIT score for some great book recommendations!