11.13.18 What if the Whole Class was Participating? When most people think about assessments, they still think mainly of summative or perhaps interim, and yet assessment plays out in classrooms every day, and often it’s not unfolding the way it... Read more
11.6.18 How One Florida District Used MAP Growth to Close Achievement Gaps Bay District Schools in Panama City, Florida, knows firsthand that using the right assessments is key to tackling achievement gaps. After changing their approach to assessment, they helped struggling... Read more
10.30.18 Building the Most Inclusive Assessment Possible A lot goes into building an inclusive and accessible assessment because of all the moving parts. As a not-for-profit with a mission of partnering to help all kids learn, NWEA is always on the lookout... Read more
10.26.18 Seven Successful Strategies for Literate Assessment While “tests” are often the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “assessment,” a balanced assessment system encompasses a wide range of methods for evaluating a child’s... Read more
10.25.18 How an IB School in Budapest is Improving Literacy with MAP Growth When teacher Laura Vas first set out to create a hybrid approach to helping her students improve their literacy skills, she had no idea she'd be embarking on one of the biggest challenges of her... Read more
10.18.18 13 Must-Ask Questions When Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments While a lot of the talk regarding assessments focuses on older students, it’s critical that we accurately assess our early learners too. Assessing early learners helps educators build a strong... Read more
10.16.18 Creating Flexible Groups Based on Data As we talk about understanding assessments and learning to apply data to classroom instruction, one way to use assessment data is for differentiation. Differentiation for educators is tailoring... Read more
10.12.18 New Resource – Guidance on Administering MAP Growth During the fall, as our school partners transition from testing students to reviewing the results, we start to receive questions from educators about when to retest a student, why a student spent... Read more
10.4.18 Miss the MAP Reading Fluency Webinar? Watch it Now On-Demand. Imagine if you could replace your one-to-one oral reading assessments with a single 20-minute online test for an entire class. And imagine if that same test does the scoring for you and saves... Read more
10.2.18 New NWEA Research Explores the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance Since its founding, NWEA has focused its research on understanding the dynamics of student growth in schools. We have always believed that when educators and the communities they serve have insight... Read more
9.25.18 3 Ways Formative Assessment Supports Students (and Teachers) in the Classroom Formative assessment is about using instructional practices that provide evidence of where students are in their learning so teachers (and learners) can make adjustments day-to-day and even... Read more
9.21.18 Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment? As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are either testing or starting to view results, we thought it was timely to share some findings from NWEA Research on average test duration.... Read more