Assessments

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests are state-aligned computerized adaptive assessments that provide accurate, useful information.

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) are state-aligned computerized adaptive tests that accurately reflect the instructional level of each student and measure growth over time.

NWEA believes in an assessment that:

• Gives a child the chance for success.
• Students find engaging.
• Respects classroom time.
• Provides useful information.

MAP tests provide highly accurate results that can be used to:

• Identify the skills and concepts individual students have learned.
• Diagnose instructional needs.
• Monitor academic growth over time.
• Make data-driven decisions at the classroom, school, and district levels.
• Place new students into appropriate instructional programs.

Test items dynamically adjust to a student's performance level, and as a result, test scores are more accurate.

The assessment itself is unique in that it adapts to the student's ability, accurately measuring what a child knows and needs to learn. In addition, MAP tests measure academic growth over time, independent of grade level or age. Most importantly, the results educators receive have practical application to teaching and learning.

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NWEA assessments are useful instructional measures. Research-based MAP tests produce results that can be used with confidence. MAP test results measure student growth.