3.1.19 Opportunities to Learn What’s New with NWEA Research This spring, NWEA researchers will present, chair, or serve as discussants in more than 20 sessions during the 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA), National Council on Measurement... Read more
2.28.19 See How MAP Growth K-2 Exceeds Expectations for Young Learners MAP® Growth™ K-2 delivers three unique assessments that focus on the learning needs and requirements of young students: growth, screening, and skills checklists. The growth assessment measures... Read more
2.26.19 NWEA Adds MAP Spanish to Support Equitable Assessment Our mission at NWEA is partnering to help all kids learn. And we don’t just talk about the mission; we live and breathe it. Providing teachers and administrators with information to know how to... Read more
2.21.19 How to Leverage Growth Data to Improve Student Learning Growth data is powerful and can have an enormous impact for students, teachers, and administrators. For students, the more they understand their own assessment results, the better they’ll be able... Read more
2.14.19 5 formative strategies to improve student learning from Dylan Wiliam and NWEA Dylan Wiliam’s book Embedded Formative Assessment is filled with a number of insights. The foundation of the book highlights the importance of formative assessment as a tool to improve teacher... Read more
2.12.19 Can Your Spanish Speakers Fully Show What They Know? Recently, we blogged about assessment data representing a whole class of diverse learners—including Spanish-speaking students. We asked the question, “Do your current assessments let Spanish... Read more
2.7.19 The Day After the Big Game, My Students Took the Lead On the morning of Monday, February 4th, I had many reasons to be excited. The New Englander in me was thrilled because the Patriots won the Super Bowl the night before! The late sleeper in me was... Read more
2.5.19 Filling the Gaps in Understanding for Spanish-Speaking Students One of the foundational purposes of assessment is providing good data—and useful data—to teachers and administrators to help them understand their students’ learning. But sometimes, it can... Read more
1.24.19 MAP Reading Fluency Testing: 4 Tips for Parents With the winter season in full swing, schools across the country are checking in on student progress. This means teachers and schools have progress data on your student that they can share with... Read more
1.22.19 Four Ways to Use MAP Growth Assessment Data Beyond Student Growth The Panhandle Elementary School in the small town of Panhandle, Texas, has seen a huge improvement in their state rankings. In fact, since using the MAP Growth interim assessment and MAP Growth K-2,... Read more
1.10.19 MAP Reading Fluency Testing: 9 Tips for Teachers and School Leaders With the winter testing season upon us, we’d like to offer some tips to help you make the most out of this assessment season. These tips are for teachers and school leaders for the upcoming... Read more
1.8.19 Using MAP Growth Assessment Data to Help Close Achievement Gaps The Genoa-Hugo School in Colorado is in a low-income ranching community. It’s kindergartners often started school with a vocabulary base of just 300-400 words; much lower than a typical 11,000-word... Read more