Whether you’re an educator or family member, learn more about assessment—including the MAP® Suite—and the data it provides to ensure all students have a clear path for growth. Resources for every experience level help you stay informed throughout the year.
Educators rely on student achievement test performance to provide important information for a variety of inferences they wish to make about education. Educators use test scores to gather information …
Author: Steven Wise, NWEA
Topics: Research, Assessment
The value of any assessment is in the decisions it enables educators to make – it is always intended to be a tool for enhancing teaching and, ultimately, learning. Assessment is a process of …
Author: Sarah Godlove Evans, NWEA
Topics: Assessment
Of all of the statistics provided by NWEA in our series of reports, perhaps the easiest to understand and the most widely used is the percentage of students in a classroom, grade-level, or school who …
Author: Nate Jensen, NWEA
This is our final blog post in the series that has broken down the five characteristics of quality educational assessments. Our first blog post highlighted the need for content validity and our …
Assessment Literacy involves understanding how assessments are made, what type of assessments answer what questions, and how the data from assessments can be used to help teachers, students, parents, …
Assessment designers strive to create assessments that show a high degree of fidelity to the following five traits: 1. Content validity2. Reliability3. Fairness4. …
Assessment literacy involves understanding how assessments are made, what type of assessments answer what questions, and how the data from assessments can be used to help teachers, students, …
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