Growth data is powerful and can have an enormous impact for students, teachers, and administrators. For students, the more they understand their own assessment results, the better they’ll be able...

MAP Growth assessments can measure student growth, project proficiency on state accountability tests, and inform how educators differentiate instruction, evaluate programs, and structure curriculum....

Bay District Schools in Panama City, Florida, knows firsthand that using the right assessments is key to tackling achievement gaps. After changing their approach to assessment, they helped struggling...

As we’ve written about many times, measuring growth is only useful if it’s done well. It’s not about just comparing one proficiency score to the next one. It’s about accurately identifying...

“I need to know if my students are learning.” Sound familiar? We hear it a lot, and if you’re an educator, you’ve likely not only heard it, but said it as well. But measuring growth is only...

Initiative fatigue. Is that something happening in your school or district? The last ten years of legislation and technology – and changes to both – have driven a lot of new initiatives into the...

Last week, hundreds of you attended our webinar, “The 3 ways you could be sabotaging your assessment plan” (you can find the recorded version here). Since we couldn’t get to every question, we...