Building Reports

Overview

With NWEA reports, principals and other building-level administrators can quickly access essential information to perform deeper analysis and foster collaboration among school staff.

Within three days of completing testing, principals can access a range of reports to guide decision-making at the school level. These reports provide growth and instructional information at grade, school, and district levels that can be shared with parents, the school board, and the local community. With timely, accurate results, building administrators can confidently make decisions to improve student learning.

“Teachers and principals are using data to make instructional decisions and to evaluate their efforts. They are asking themselves and teams more sophisticated, in-depth questions about their practices.”

John Wilson, Assessment and Evaluation Coordinator

Tempe, AZ

Features

NWEA building reports provide:

• School and student performance relative to:
  • Growth
  • Proficiency
  • Norms
• The ability to drill down from a school overview to an individual student level.
• Timely results for all members of a student’s learning team, delivered in formats designed to guide decision making.
• An understanding of what proportion of students met or exceeded growth targets, or fell short of growth targets based on national norms.
• Convenient online access to reports within 72 hours.

School Administrators immediately can see where their school is growing and proficient.

Practical Application

Principals use NWEA building reports to:

• Foster collaboration among teachers.
• Structure time and materials.
• Share resources to serve all students more effectively.
• Inform staff development plans.
• Evaluate program effectiveness.

An example of a report for building administrators follows:

School Overview

Bring focused attention to areas of possible concern by quickly identifying what proportion of your students met growth targets and proficiency standards.

Facilitate communication among teachers for flexible grouping and sharing of resources to assist in creating an environment of success.

Support teachers with instructional planning assistance for individual students, or groups of students, with unique needs.

FAQ

How soon after uploading tests can reports be viewed?

Building level reports are available within 72 hours following a successful upload of test results.

Are annotated reports available to view?

Yes. To view sample reports, go to the NWEA Reports Site, and scroll to the bottom of the page. There are several annotated reports that can be viewed from here.

Does NWEA offer customized reports?

NWEA does not offer customized reports. You can use the raw data.txt file included with test results to create customized reports.

Which reports can be accessed from a Macintosh computer?

Teacher reports may be viewed through any Internet browser because they are Adobe Reader files (.pdf) and these types of files are accessible from a Macintosh.

What is a Lexile?

The Lexile Framework for Reading is based on the Lexile scale, which ranks books and reading abilities. Texts are evaluated for difficulty based on two parameters: word complexity and frequency, and sentence length.

What is a RIT range?

The RIT range reflects the rounded range of scores that is one standard error of measure around the student's score. It can be expected that if the students took the test again soon, under similar conditions and applying the same effort, the student's score would fall within this range about 2/3 of the time.

What is a standard measure of error?

The standard error of measurement is an estimate of the precision of the achievement (RIT) score. The smaller the standard error, the more precise the achievement estimate is.

What is a percentile rank?

This number indicates the percentage of students in the NWEA norm group for this grade that this student's score equaled or exceeded.