The Greene County School District Superintendent shares his thoughts on the latest assessment that students took.
The Measures of Annual Progress (MAP) is an assessment on reading and math that tests the students abilities in both subjects, which depending on how the students answers the questions can ask progressively tougher questions. Superintendent Brett Abbotts first started this assessment in the 2022-23 school year. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio the winter assessment was recently completed and the data shows that when comparing the winter and fall assessments, district wide there was an overall improvement of five percent in math and one percent in reading.
Abbotts says the data is also broken down into different grade levels and buildings and across the 1.5 years that students have taken the MAP Assessment, they continue to show improvement. He describes his favorite part about the results as being methodically seeing progress and not huge increases.
“Because that’s what school improvement is. School improvement, it’s not flashy, it’s not fancy, it doesn’t happen overnight, it’s about building systems and building processes to ensure that we are catching the kids that are struggling to be able to boost them up. And then also our kids that are excelling and doing really well to continue to push them on, and then obviously you know supporting every other student in between. The assessment results that we have, to me, just show that we just have consistent, stable, sustainable school improvement methods going on in each of our buildings.”
Abbotts adds MAP has also been helpful with providing immediate results, so that inventions and the multi-tiered systems of support have been more effective in decreasing the number of students who need special education assistance. Click the link below to see the results.