5.29.13 Interpreting the Percentage of Students Meeting or Exceeding Their Growth Projections As we come to the conclusion of Spring testing, I find myself answering more and more questions about how to interpret the percentage of students meeting or exceeding their growth... Read more
5.29.13 MAP Test Design as Informed by NWEA Guiding Principles This is the second post in a series of blogs about how MAP assessments are aligned to content standards. This post was authored by NWEA content specialists Eric Dombrowik, Alane Ferland, and Roy... Read more
5.24.13 Teacher and Automated Essay Scoring (AES)… A Winning Combination? One of the hallmarks and frustrations of the field of education is the imprecision of the language. In education we call the same thing by many names, or we use the same term to mean many different... Read more
5.17.13 Classroom techniques: Formative assessment idea number 10 We’ve reached ten. Ten formative assessment strategies and ideas that you can use in your classroom to elicit evidence of learning and adjust your teaching. So far, our blogs have touched on the... Read more
5.14.13 Using NWEA Norms to Establish Goals on State Tests Question: How do we use NWEA norms to identify student performance and growth goals around meeting state proficiency standards? Answer: Simply put, we can’t. NWEA performance and growth norms... Read more
5.13.13 Details of the President’s Plan on Early Learning Becoming Clearer After the President’s State of the Union speech in late February we wrote a blog post that highlighted some of his proposed early learning plans, namely a new emphasis on federal-state... Read more
4.26.13 4 Benefits of Incorporating Instructional Scaffolding in Early Childhood Assessments In an instructional setting, the term “scaffolding” or “instructional scaffolding” refers to the guidance and support a teacher offers a student when the student is learning a new concept. In... Read more
4.22.13 Aligning the MAP Assessment to Content Standards As assessment data is increasingly used in high stakes evaluations, a major area of discussion is the alignment between the assessment and the responsibility to teach content in accordance with the... Read more
4.19.13 Authentic Learning Series: 13 At-Home Numeracy Ideas for Early Childhood This is the fourth and final article in our authentic learning series. In the first two articles, we discussed authentic learning ideas for the classroom (for early literacy and numeracy) and in the... Read more
4.12.13 Authentic Learning Series: 13 At-Home Literacy Ideas for Early Childhood This is the third of four articles in a series about incorporating authentic learning and authentic assessment in both the classroom setting and at home. In our first two articles, we focused on... Read more
