If your district has chosen the NWEA™ MAP® Growth Assessment as the assessment provider for Imagine Math, you have much flexibility in which learning pathways will be assigned to students and whether they will be assigned manually or automatically. During the NWEA implementation process, Administrators must select from the three pathway configurations in the table below and discuss this choice with their Customer Success Manager (CSM). It is possible to select different configurations for different user groups such as grade levels or schools.
The Default option places students in a grade-level pathway based on their overall score on the NWEA MAP Growth Assessment for Math. Additional options assign domain-specific pathways either in addition to the grade-level pathway or instead of it.
No matter what option your district selects, Administrators and Teachers always have the ability to manually assign other pathways to students at any time. (See more about this at the bottom of this article.)
Choosing an NWEA MAP pathways configuration:
Administrators, use the information in the table below to decide how your organization will implement the NWEA pathways. For more information, refer to Setting up and using NWEA™ MAP® with Imagine Learning and Sharing NWEA™ MAP® Growth scores with Imagine Learning.
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Default Option: Students receive one on-grade-level pathway |
Once the NWEA MAP scores are integrated, a rostered grade-level pathway is automatically assigned to provide targeted instruction for each student. The pathway is personalized with additional prerequisite/remedial lessons based on the student's overall RIT score from the NWEA Assessment. This option only inserts lessons on or below a student's rostered grade level based on their assessment results. Above-grade-level content will not be inserted. Imagine Learning recommends this option for:
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Supplement Option: Students receive one on-grade-level pathway and multiple domain-specific pathways |
As with the default option, students are automatically enrolled in their rostered grade-level pathway with personalized prerequisite remedial lessons based on their overall NWEA score.
The domain-specific pathways can be at a skill level above the student's rostered grade level. For example, if a 5th-grade student is performing at grade level in one domain, but above grade level in another, they automatically receive varying content levels catered to them based on their test results.
Imagine Learning recommends this option for:
Note Students may repeat lessons since both the grade-level pathway and the NWEA domain-specific pathways draw from the same pool of lessons in Imagine Math 3+. |
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Replace Option: Students receive multiple domain-specific pathways |
Unlike the Default and Supplement configurations, in the Replace configuration, students do not receive a grade-level pathway. Students are automatically assigned the multiple domain-specific RIT pathways described in the Supplement section above, and the teacher must provide guidance for students on which pathway to select. Caution In some cases, students may not receive enough lessons in their pathway to reach the "Think 30!" goal or the specific goal your district has set to measure usage. In this case, you should assign additional pathways to allow the student to reach their goal. Imagine Learning recommends this option for:
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No matter which configuration above is selected, at any time, Teachers and Administrators can also manually assign one or more grade-level pathways, domain-specific pathways, or any other custom pathways they create. These pathways will appear in the student's list of pathways when they log into Imagine Math, and educators must tell students which pathway they should select from the list. For more information, refer to Assigning pathways to Imagine Math 3+ students.