Numbers to Data

Data conferences provide an opportunity for students to make meaning out of assessment data and set goals they can understand. Use this resource to help your students understand the meaning of a percentile. Summative and formative assessments, such as NWEA's MAP and Renaissance Learning's STAR 360 assessments often provide percentile ranks with scale scores. A percentile rank is not a percentage of questions answered correctly. Instead, the percentile rank indicates how well the student did comp