State Information
NWEA empowers educators with resources to inform decisions at national, regional, and district levels.
NWEA publishes two types of information to empower educators to use assessment data at the state level:
- Scale Alignment Studies
- NWEA has conducted studies to link the RIT scale to the proficiency levels from many state assessments.
- Using this information with NWEA assessments, member schools can monitor their students' progress toward the proficiency standards for their states.
- You can read more about the NWEA State Standards Alignment Study Methods
- When we developed our current method for doing alignment studies, we had to do studies comparing its effectiveness with the methods we used previously. This paper demonstrates that the distributional method currently employed, actually improves on the predictive accuracy of the alignment studies.
- Goal Structures
- NWEA goal structures connect the content from state standards to each reporting area of a state-aligned MAP test.
- Using NWEA Goal Structures, the concepts in Teacher Reports may be directly connected to each state's unique standards as well as the DesCartes continuum of learning.
- Goal Structures are also available for our international partners.
Research Reports
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 1/18/2008 |
A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Washington Assessment System
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| 1/15/2008 |
A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the New York State Testing Program
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| 12/31/2007 |
A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming Students (PAWS)
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| 9/4/2007 |
A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
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| 8/2/2007 |
A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the
Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT)
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| 5/22/2007 |
Wisconsin Alignment Report
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| 5/21/2007 |
Illinois Alignment Report
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| 5/21/2007 |
Indiana Alignment Report
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| 5/21/2007 |
Michigan Alignment Report
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| 5/18/2007 |
Vermont Alignment Report
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| 5/18/2007 |
New Mexico Alignment Report
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| 5/18/2007 |
North Dakota Alignment Report
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| 5/18/2007 |
Rhode Island Alignment Report
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| 5/18/2007 |
New Hampshire Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
New Jersey Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
South Carolina Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Arizona Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
California Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Colorado Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Delaware Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Idaho Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Kansas Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Maine Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Maryland Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Massachusetts Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Minnesota Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Montana Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Nevada Alignment Report
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| 4/18/2007 |
Ohio Alignment Report
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| 1/18/2007 |
Aligning the NWEA RIT scale with the state assessment for Texas
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| 8/1/2004 |
South Carolina HSAP Alignment Report
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| 1/1/2004 |
Aligning the NWEA RIT scale with the state assessment for Pennsylvania
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Goal Structures