Mapping & Assessing Personal Progress
(MAPP – Semi-Formal)
Written by Mike Sissons and originally developed at The Dales School (North Yorkshire)
MAPP (Semi-Formal) is a suite of materials to facilitate the planning, assessment and recording of progress in relation to personal learning intentions.
Below is a recording of an Equals Online CPD session by Mike Sissons.
Mike talks about the new MAPP (Mapping and Assessing Personal Progress). Equals members can attend the live online CPD sessions for 100% FREE.
Please visit the » Equals Events Page to view the full selection of online CPD sessions available. For further information about MAPP, please contact the Equals Strategic Development Manager using paul@equalsoffice.co.uk or you can ring Paul using 0191 272 1222.
MAPP (Semi-Formal) at a glance
Section 1
Contains the MAPP Milestones. These are not strictly hierarchical and, though they increase in complexity within each section, there is no assumption that learners will work through all of them or approach them in a fixed order. They are intended to guide thinking when writing personal learning intentions; they are not intended to be exclusive and teachers should refer to other relevant resources.
Section 2
Contains the Assessment of Lateral Progress (ALP). This is the core instrument in MAPP for assessing progress in relation to learning intentions, whatever their source. It has been used to assess progress in physical development, for example, an area not covered by the Milestone statements but an area which is of vital importance to many pupils with LDD.
In this revised edition of MAPP, the aspect of ‘prompting’ has been renamed ‘independence’.
This is simply a change in language which has been made to provide consistency, and to avoid the confusion that has sometimes arisen over the notion of progress being linked to a reduction in prompting, rather than an increase in independence.
Section 3
Offers guidelines on the completion of the MAPP (Semi-Formal) spreadsheets. These spreadsheets generate more information than the spreadsheets in the first edition of MAPP but have been designed in such a way that they do not require teachers to input any additional data.
Section 4
Discusses key concepts in MAPP (Semi-Formal) and recommends systems and processes concerning its implementation. This section contains answers to the questions that have most frequently ben raised in training sessions and presentations since the publication of the first edition of MAPP in 2010.
£125.00 + VAT for members and £229.00 for non-members.
* Discounts are available for schools, that previously purchased the first version of MAPP.
Please email paul@equalsoffice.co.uk for further details.
