NWEA research webinar with Dr. Naomi Duran and Dr. Megan Kuhfeld who shared three recently published studies highlighting insights on elementary grades, including trends in kindergarten redshirting, K-2 achievement growth post-COVID, and an analysis on academic achievement trends for boys.

Brian Amsler is the principal at Lincoln Middle School in Schiller Park School District in Illinois, where the NWEA Research Team first identified how these strategies work in concert to bring about growth. In this conversation, Brian speaks with Dr. David Collum, Data & Assessment Coordinator at Confluence Academies in St. Louis, MO about his efforts to put the Transformative Ten in action and the challenges to creating a high growth mindset.

With this compilation of posts from our blog, Teach. Learn. Grow., we invite you to learn more about how to inspire a love of math in your classroom and help the next generation approach it with curiosity, confidence, and even excitement.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 update is essential to account for changes in US student demographics, postpandemic shifts in student performance, and the item-selection algorithm in the newly enhanced version of MAP® Growth™.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 detailed research study is essential to account for changes in US student demographics, postpandemic shifts in student performance, and the item-selection algorithm in the newly enhanced version of MAP® Growth™.

An NWEA policy report underscoring the literacy challenges of older students left behind by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions to learning, along with four policy recommendations for addressing those challenges.

MAP® Growth™ norms are one of our most critical assets in helping partners make sense of student performance and progress. They offer a national frame of reference that allows educators to answer these frequently asked key questions.