Innovations in reporting & assessment
Emerging technologies allow for a variety of methods to assess students and report data specific to the needs of different stakeholders. These various approaches can result in assessments that are more engaging for students, along with reporting that provides more insightful, useful information for students, families, and educators.
A method for identifying partial test-taking engagement
This paper describes a method for identifying partial engagement and provides validation evidence to support its use and interpretation. When test events indicate the presence of partial engagement, effort-moderated scores should be interpreted cautiously.
By: Steven Wise, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Innovations in reporting & assessment, School & test engagement
User guide for interpreting the NWEA state dashboard: Exploring the educational impacts of COVID-19
This guide explains the analyses, statistics, terms, and data included in the NWEA state dashboard, Exploring the Educational Impacts of COVID-19.
By: Greg King
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Innovations in reporting & assessment
Using retest data to evaluate and improve effort-moderated scoring
This study investigated effortāmoderated (EāM) scoring, in which item responses classified as rapid guesses are identified and excluded from scoring, and its affect on score distortion from disengaged test taking.
By: Steven Wise, Megan Kuhfeld
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Innovations in reporting & assessment, School & test engagement
Achievement and growth tables for private schools
This interactive tool provides context on the typical patterns of achievement and growth in mathematics and reading for private and Catholic schools who take MAP Growth assessments. It provides multiple ways to examine patterns for different groups of students, including by student gender, race/ethnic group, region, and state.
By: Michael Dahlin, Art Katsapis
Topics: Innovations in reporting & assessment, Empowering educators
MAP Growth Goal Explorer Userās Guide
This userās guide for the MAP Growth Goal Explorer describes how to use this interactive tool, the benchmarks it uses to provide context on student growth goals, a framework for goal setting, instructions for how to download information from the tool, and answers to frequently asked questions.
By: Dave Moyer
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators, Innovations in reporting & assessment
The MAP Growth Goal Explorer is designed to support and simplify the goal-setting process by showing a range of possible fall-to-spring growth goals against the backdrop of important academic benchmarks.
By: Dave Moyer
Topics: COVID-19 & schools, Empowering educators, Innovations in reporting & assessment
An intelligent CAT that can deal with disengaged test taking
This book presents varied applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development, including research and successful examples of using AI technology in automated item generation, automated test assembly, automated scoring, and computerized adaptive testing.
By: Steven Wise
Topics: Measurement & scaling, Innovations in reporting & assessment, School & test engagement