3.27.18 Five Ways to Help Parents Get the Most Out of MAP Growth Results As spring testing season approaches, teachers, principals, and other administrators may be looking for resources and ideas for sharing MAP® Growth™ results with parents. Sometimes parents... Read more
3.15.18 How NOT to get Overwhelmed by Data: Teacher Reports to use Throughout the Year Raise your hand if you feel like data is a dirty word? Data meetings, data interventions, data analysis... Let’s face it, for the most part, that word can stir up some negative feelings in... Read more
3.13.18 7 Ways to Prepare for MAP Growth Getting ready for spring testing? It’s likely that almost all teachers who prepared for the MAP® GrowthTM assessment last fall learned something along the way. While there’s never only one way... Read more
3.8.18 What Happens Below Zero: Meaningful Growth for Kids Who Read Zero Words Correct Per Minute It’s been cold here in Minnesota. Now for some parts of the country, cold means 30 degrees. But in Minnesota, I’m talking about subzero temperatures. Before wind chill, even. To tell the... Read more
2.27.18 Study Concludes MAP Growth Items Align to Common Core State Standards At NWEA, one question that we are often asked is how well MAP® Growth™ aligns to different state standards, including Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Today, we are excited to share that an... Read more
2.22.18 Eight Daily Classroom Data Sources to Empower Student-Directed Learning Daniel Venables, in a TeachThought blog that I still often refer to, talks about data as tools teachers can use to teach better. He provides eight sources of daily classroom data which can help... Read more
2.20.18 Less stopwatch, more heart: What football movies can teach us about oral reading fluency assessment One-on-one assessment can seem like a really important thing to protect, in the primary grades. I am in that camp myself. But I don’t think all forms of assessment need to be one on one. In... Read more
2.15.18 5 ways to support girls in STEM Although girls and boys tend to take higher-level math and science courses at relatively the same rate, women represent less than 30 percent of the science and engineering workforce. The table below... Read more
2.13.18 I’ve Got Struggling Readers: I Need Help! Reading. It is a simple task for those of us who are natural readers. When I am asked how I learned to read, I have a difficult time answering because I am not sure. I just read. As an educator, I... Read more
2.8.18 New Student Assessment Engagement Metrics in MAP Growth Reporting – What you Need to Know MAP® Growth™ reporting has added two new student assessment engagement metrics: Percent of Disengaged Responses Estimated Impact of Disengagement on RIT These metrics will inform... Read more
2.6.18 4 Lessons from a Large District Assessment Audit Last week, hundreds of you attended our webinar, “The 3 ways you could be sabotaging your assessment plan” (you can find the recorded version here). Since we couldn’t get to every question, we... Read more
1.30.18 5 Things to Know about MAP Reading Fluency Last week, we were excited to announce our groundbreaking new product for K-3 students, MAP® Reading Fluency™. We’ve loved hearing all your feedback and questions – so today, we sat down... Read more