10.26.18 Seven Successful Strategies for Literate Assessment While “tests” are often the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “assessment,” a balanced assessment system encompasses a wide range of methods for evaluating a child’s... Read more
10.25.18 How an IB School in Budapest is Improving Literacy with MAP Growth When teacher Laura Vas first set out to create a hybrid approach to helping her students improve their literacy skills, she had no idea she'd be embarking on one of the biggest challenges of her... Read more
10.18.18 13 Must-Ask Questions When Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments While a lot of the talk regarding assessments focuses on older students, it’s critical that we accurately assess our early learners too. Assessing early learners helps educators build a strong... Read more
10.16.18 Creating Flexible Groups Based on Data As we talk about understanding assessments and learning to apply data to classroom instruction, one way to use assessment data is for differentiation. Differentiation for educators is tailoring... Read more
10.12.18 New Resource – Guidance on Administering MAP Growth During the fall, as our school partners transition from testing students to reviewing the results, we start to receive questions from educators about when to retest a student, why a student spent... Read more
10.4.18 Miss the MAP Reading Fluency Webinar? Watch it Now On-Demand. Imagine if you could replace your one-to-one oral reading assessments with a single 20-minute online test for an entire class. And imagine if that same test does the scoring for you and saves... Read more
10.2.18 New NWEA Research Explores the Relationships Between Poverty and School Performance Since its founding, NWEA has focused its research on understanding the dynamics of student growth in schools. We have always believed that when educators and the communities they serve have insight... Read more
9.25.18 3 Ways Formative Assessment Supports Students (and Teachers) in the Classroom Formative assessment is about using instructional practices that provide evidence of where students are in their learning so teachers (and learners) can make adjustments day-to-day and even... Read more
9.21.18 Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment? As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are either testing or starting to view results, we thought it was timely to share some findings from NWEA Research on average test duration.... Read more
9.20.18 Measuring Early Reading: Why Anchor Standards and Foundational Skills are Both Important Maybe it’s because my son has now reached my own height (which is insane). I find myself staring now and then at the doorway out of my kitchen, where all these little height marks on the... Read more
9.18.18 3 Reasons to Observe Your Students Taking MAP Growth My fifth graders were busily taking the MAP® Growth™ Math assessment. The room was quiet. While the proctor sat at her desk monitoring testing, I walked around slowly, watching my students... Read more
9.13.18 Why NWEA Invalidates MAP Growth Tests for Rapid Guessing If you have started MAP Growth testing this fall, you saw that more student assessments are being invalidated this year than in prior years. You may also be wondering why that’s the case. At NWEA,... Read more