AISG Students Assess Their Skills in the 2023 Spring MAP Testing

MAP Music Video created and produced by AISG Secondary Teachers.

Students have just started their spring Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) testing. MAP is a way for teachers, administrators, and parents to track the progress of a student in different subject areas to see what area needs to be improved upon. MAP tests are taken by international students all over the world.

MAP is a computer adaptive test that measures students’ academic growth. Consisting of reading, language usage and math, the questions get harder the more questions the student gets right and easier the more they answer incorrectly.

This was done last semester as well and students are taking it again now to see if there has been any improvement since then.

The reading and language tests help to show the English department what needs to be adjusted in their teaching as well as what is currently going well.

“We genuinely use the data from it to see where our students are, to see any patterns of growth and to see how we might need to adjust what we are teaching,” Katie Dean an English teacher at the school said, “I think it can be useful for students as individuals to see a progression marker that is not from their school.”

While MAP testing is not the most enjoyable task for students. Students understand the benefits of doing them.

“You can see which area you lack in and what you need to improve,” one student said.

But some students would appreciate it if the testing was later in the day and not right in the morning.

“Make it after lunch and not right at the beginning of the morning,” another student said, “It’s quite tiring doing it in the morning.”

MAP is a great way for both students and staff to get a further understanding of what skill needs improvement and is very beneficial to help create a better and more helpful learning environment at AISG.