8.8.17 Kara Bobowski Seven Things to Communicate to Students Before Testing We can all agree that students are a key stakeholder in their own education. When they are involved in the assessment process and in their own learning, the result is an improvement in achievement.... Read more
7.20.17 Nicole Zdeb Reporting Student Growth Right: Three Assessment Must-Haves Since growth is a vital gauge of student progress, it’s crucial to estimate it as accurately as possible. To estimate growth well and provide actionable assessment data for all students,... Read more
7.13.17 Kathy Dyer Understanding formative, interim, and summative assessments and their role in student learning At its core, education is about the teaching and learning process. How do we teach the necessary literacies, content knowledge, critical thinking skills, ethics, and habits of mind deemed essential... Read more
5.19.17 Michael Koranda The Educational Pie-Baking Contest Since the very first county fair, assessment has been the key to communicating success. Let your mind wander a bit to imagine the smell of apple pies, and the sounds of forks clinking against the... Read more
4.18.17 Kristie Werner OECD Test for Schools | Preparing Students to Succeed We’ve blogged consistently on student assessment, most notably interim assessments like MAP® and MAP for Primary Grades (MPG), and formative assessment for day-to-day and minute-to-minute... Read more
3.14.17 Kathy Dyer Moving Aside the Assessment Fog The idea of “assessment fog” made me smile. John McCarthy titled his Edutopia blog post with it – 3 Guidelines to Eliminating Assessment Fog. When driving, fog may cause tension,... Read more
3.7.17 Fenesha Hubbard I Took the MAP Test and Here’s What Happened As a young student, I hated standardized tests, or any multiple-choice tests for that matter! In my mind, I could usually justify why several answers would be correct, so to select only one answer... Read more
2.21.17 Andy Set MAP Wins – New Reports Help Boost Differentiated Instruction We were pleased to recently learn that MAP® received the 2016 Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning Magazine. For 34 years, Tech & Learning Magazine has recognized the best new and... Read more
1.31.17 April Roethel Everybody in the Pool – How Item Pool Depth Affects Assessment Accuracy As we’ve all been taught, to dive safely into a swimming pool you must first be sure that the water is deep enough to extend past your head and feet. Ensuring the validity of computer adaptive... Read more
1.17.17 Nicole Zdeb Measuring Student Growth: What is a Scale and What Does Stability Mean? Measuring student growth is a crucial part of an educator’s role, and the stability of a measurement scale over time is necessary in order to measure that growth accurately. So what is a scale, and... Read more
1.10.17 Kara Bobowski 11 Talking Points for Teachers Preparing Students for the MAP Test As school gets back underway and students get into their groove, teachers begin to think about winter testing. Many schools administer the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) K – 12 interim... Read more
1.4.17 Tamara Belgard The Power of MAP Data in the Classroom District administrators. Principals. Teachers. All of these school-based roles can take advantage of the tremendous value that the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) assessment data can... Read more
