16 resources for putting MAP Growth assessment data to work

Educators can use MAP®Growth™ assessment data to support student growth and achievement in numerous ways. One of those ways is leveraging NWEA instructional connections. These partners are supplemental curriculum providers, data aggregation platforms, and suppliers of resources for reading teachers that allow you to connect your MAP Growth assessment data to tools for a variety of subjects and grade levels.

Here’s a current list of some of the available connections:

1. ClassHero

Grades covered: K–8

Subject: Math

ClassHero provides blended-learning and online support focused on the areas of daily progress, real-time monitoring, and differentiation. It helps with personalized daily math practice and daily learning targets.

2. Classworks

Grades covered: K–8

Subjects: Reading, language usage, math

Classworks is an interactive online instruction solution that provides individual learning pathways for students, including direct instruction, skills practice, and formative mastery checks. It also tracks progress with a color-coded dashboard.

3. DreamBox Learning

Grades covered: K–8

Subject: Math

DreamBox Learning Math is the only K–8 digital math program powered by students, built by and for educators, and independently proven to positively impact student achievement. It differentiates assignments for individual learners and delivers real-time data to help identify where students are in the learning process.

4. Edgenuity Pathblazer

Grades covered: K–6

Subjects: Math, reading

Targeted intervention can help educators pinpoint specific opportunity gaps and provide a targeted, data-driven instructional pathway to help students catch up, keep up, or get ahead in math and ELA. Edgenuity Pathblazer automatically generates personalized learning paths and acceleration plans for students. It also delivers age-appropriate instruction that progresses as students master each objective.

5. Edmentum, Exact Path

Grades covered: K–12

Subjects: Math, reading, progress monitoring

Edmentum’s programs are explicitly designed to help K–12 students master the content specified in state and Common Core standards and improve performance in core skill areas. It adapts instruction based on student performance and provides just-in-time remediation and acceleration. It also offers built-in incentives, assignments, printable lesson plans, and grouping features.

6. FEV Tutor

Grades covered: K–12

Subjects: Math, reading

FEV Tutor provides engaging one-on-one online tutoring services that are driven by data and personalized for each student. It provides live, targeted instruction and offers tutoring instruction that targets identified learning strands.

7. Learning A–Z, Raz-Plus

Grades covered: K–5

Subject: Reading

Raz-Plus makes blended learning easier and more affordable, with thousands of differentiated reading resources that strengthen the connection between what is taught and what students practice on their own. Correlations indicate targeted resources based on student RIT scores, and it provides correlations for each RIT level. Raz-Plus includes an extensive collection of resources, including leveled books, lesson plans, and teaching materials, ideal for whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one reading instruction.

8. eSpark Learning

Grades covered: K–5

Subjects: Math, reading

eSpark is an adaptive online program providing math and reading instruction for K–5 students. It places students into learning pathways based on their instruction-area RIT scores.

9. Imagine Learning, Imagine Language and Literacy

Grades covered: K–6

Subjects: Reading, language usage

Through a systematic approach to vocabulary, grammar, and language conventions, Imagine Language and Literacy explicitly teaches students the skills that are critical to reading comprehension and language proficiency, empowering them to unlock learning across all subject areas. It focuses on small interventions.

10. Imagine Learning, Imagine Math

Grades covered: K–12

Subjects: Math, algebra I, algebra II, geometry

Imagine Math is a research-based and adaptive online supplemental math solution suite for students. Through unique age-appropriate learning environments and a system of adaptive and standards-aligned benchmark and formative assessments, Imagine Math provides students with just the right amount of challenge to keep them in their personal zone of proximal development. It scaffolds students up to grade-level proficiency and provides specialized student learning pathways aligned to MAP Growth RIT scores in grades 2 and above.

11. Imagine Learning, Imagine MyPath

Grades covered: K–12

Subjects: Math, reading

Give every K–12 student a pathway to grade-level success with a personalized and adaptive program in reading and math. Imagine MyPath meets students at their learning level with age-appropriate instruction covering grades 3–11 and aligns skills and concepts to a student’s overall RIT score.

12. IXL Learning

Grades covered: K–8

Subjects: Language usage, math, reading

IXL is a personalized learning and comprehensive curriculum provider that supports planning and exam prep, offers personalized guidance, and gives actionable data for real-time insights. It supports skill alignment with recommended IXL skills for every student and tailors instruction to students with printable skill plans.

13. Lexia Learning, Core5 Reading

Grades covered: K–5

Subject: Reading

Lexia Core5 Reading is an adaptive blended-learning program that accelerates the development of literacy skills for students of all abilities, helping them make that critical shift from learning to read to reading to learn.

14. Lexia Learning, PowerUp Literacy

Grades covered: 6–12

Subject: Reading

Lexia PowerUp Literacy accelerates literacy gains for students in grades 6–12 who are at risk of not meeting college- and career-ready standards.

15. Newsela

Grades covered: 3–12

Subject: Reading

Newsela, an instructional content platform, provides educators with differentiated instruction focused on individual student reading levels. It sets students’ Lexile measure of reading levels (Just Right Reading Levels) automatically based on MAP Growth RIT scores.

16. ThinkCERCA

Grades covered: 3–12

Subjects: Reading, language usage

ThinkCERCA uses a scaffolded approach to literacy that helps students develop their critical-thinking skills. ThinkCERCA’s expert-designed lessons walk students through the process of analyzing content-rich texts and multimedia to construct cohesive argumentative, informational, or narrative writings. Teachers can select lessons based on MAP Growth Instructional Area scores.

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