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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 …
Author: Michael Dahlin, NWEA
Topics: Research, Assessment
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 …
Author: Nate Jensen, NWEA
Topics: Research
In NWEA’s norms, about what percentage of students who take MAP assessments typically meet their school year growth goals? This is a tough question to answer, since it’s not something that we …
For decades, education researchers have found that children from lower-income and less-educated parents typically enter kindergarten with limited language skills compared to their more privileged …
Author: Beth Tarasawa, NWEA
Of all of the statistics provided by NWEA in our series of reports, perhaps the easiest to understand and the most widely used is the percentage of students in a classroom, grade-level, or school who …
Educators rely on student achievement test performance to provide important information for a variety of inferences they wish to make about education. Educators use test scores to gather information …
Author: Steven Wise, NWEA
Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) is a proud partner of the Multnomah County Partnership for Education Research. This coalition, established in July 2013 with the University of Portland, …
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