11.11.16 Kathy Dyer Supporting All Learners – Do Your Metrics Measure all Students? In Multiple Measures Done Right, John Cronin talked about seven principles of coherent assessment systems. Principle 6 is the metrics and incentives used encourage a focus on all learners. As we move... Read more
11.1.16 Kara Bobowski Teacher Resources for Communicating Assessment Results with Parents When you think of the classroom setting, you're likely picturing the teacher standing at the front of the room giving lessons, administering tests and quizzes, and providing student feedback. But... Read more
10.20.16 Christina Hunter Personalized Learning is a Practice, Not a Product Personalized Learning. What images or thoughts surface when you read those words? When I heard “personalized learning,” my thoughts went to Derek, a long-ago student. A few years after having... Read more
10.13.16 Elizabeth Barker NWEA Promotes Accessibility in Assessment with Release of Image Description Guidelines As a teacher, fall is a time of new beginnings: new students, new curriculum, and potentially, new assessments. Establishing consistency among the novelty and chaos becomes a vital goal. The concept... Read more
10.6.16 Heather Lageman Educators’ Superpowers: Activate! Life and learning today is all about the questions – not the answers. Ernő Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, created something more than a puzzle – he created a question waiting to be... Read more
9.20.16 Dee Fabry Why We Need Assessment Literacy as Part of Teacher Preparation Imagine you go to your radiologist for an X-ray. She is highly qualified to do this task. The radiologist sends the film to the doctor to interpret the results. The doctor, however, only received a... Read more
9.15.16 Jack Bierwirth How to Ensure District Goals Drive Your Assessment Selection Dr. Jack Bierwirth is a retired superintendent who spent the last 15 years of his career at the helm of Herricks Union Free School District in New York. Jack shared his views on defining the purpose... Read more
9.8.16 Matt Chapman Going for the Gold My favorite athlete in this summer’s Olympic Games was Galen Rupp, who won the marathon in the American Olympic trials and went on to become the second American runner in 40 years to earn a medal... Read more
9.6.16 Kara Bobowski Top 5 Tips for Fall Testing The school supply shelves look pretty depleted – in fact, the Halloween costumes are already out! For many, that means it’s the first week of school, and for others, you have been back in school... Read more
8.23.16 Jean Fleming Answers to the Top 6 Questions Parents Ask About the MAP Test At NWEA, we work with over 7,800 schools and districts across the country and in 140 countries around the world, reaching more than 8 million students, so there’s a pretty good chance that students... Read more
8.18.16 Canda D. Mueller Testing Action Plan – Designing Better Assessment Solutions Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Education announced the next step in President Obama’s Testing Action Plan — an $8.6 million grant competition for states “to innovate and improve the... Read more
7.26.16 John Wood Data Comparability, Norms, and Adjusting for New State Standards Earlier this year, I wrote a blog on the importance of data comparability in today’s assessment environment. With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), many states are likely to be... Read more
