{"id":8596,"date":"2025-02-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-cms.nwea.org\/blog\/?p=8596"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:45:48","slug":"how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing duration: How long is too long to spend on the MAP Growth assessment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_850x300_hero.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_850x300_hero.jpeg 849w, https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_850x300_hero-300x106.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_850x300_hero-768x271.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_850x300_hero-720x254.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/>One thing educators could always use more of is time. That is top of mind here at NWEA, especially when it comes to how many questions are on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/map-growth\/\">MAP\u00ae Growth\u2122<\/a> assessment. How can we get accurate, actionable data in the hands of educators like you while still preserving your instructional time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educators, who often design their own assessments, also balance these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How many questions do I need to evaluate student understanding?<\/strong> Teachers know that five multiple-choice questions is inadequate to assess a whole unit, but 100 questions is probably excessive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How long will the average student spend on this test?<\/strong> Veteran educators know how to design a test that will last a desired amount of time. We don\u2019t want fast finishers completing a summative assessment in ten minutes, and we also don\u2019t want half the class returning after school to complete a test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These questions\u2014among many others\u2014guide the design of our MAP Growth test. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/research\/center\/nwea-research\/\">our team of researchers<\/a> is behind our answers.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How many questions are on the MAP Growth assessment?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the summer of 2022, we updated MAP Growth to <a href=\"https:\/\/connection.nwea.org\/s\/nwea-news\/test-length-changes-reducing-the-amount-of-time-needed-to-complete-map-growth-te-MCSH7MLHUBGVAU5MBY53DYCUX7PA?language=en_US\">standardize all versions to 43 questions<\/a>. This update significantly reduced the number of items of some tests, such as the Spanish math test, which saw a reduction of 12 items. This cut testing times significantly, providing teachers with a more predictable range of assessment times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After three testing sessions in the fall, winter, and spring of the 2022\u201323 school year, our team analyzed the results and uncovered these key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The overwhelming majority of MAP Growth tests are completed in 40\u201355 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Across all grades and testing periods, average test duration decreased by 7\u201310 minutes\u2014roughly a 17% decrease.<\/li>\n<li>There is now less test duration variability, with the highest average duration being 58 minutes (5th grade, spring 2023) and the lowest being 25 minutes (kindergarten, spring 2023).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want another nerdy detail? Our researchers concluded that 43 items is a sufficient amount of test items to preserve a <a href=\"https:\/\/connection.nwea.org\/s\/article\/Valid-SEM-range-for-MAP-Growth?language=en_US\">valid standard error of measurement (SEM) range<\/a>, meaning it\u2019s the just-right number of assessment items to gauge a student\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-the-map-growth-rit-scale-offers-valuable-insights-into-student-growth\/\">RIT score<\/a>. Fewer questions might save more time, but the data would become less reliable\u2014and that\u2019s not what we\u2019re about at NWEA. (If you\u2019re feeling frustrated about how much time is spent on assessment, our video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cU6T2BRHcEE\">\u201cWhy should I test so much when I could be teaching?\u201d<\/a> can help.)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But why do some of my students still take so long to test?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are always students who take longer to test, no matter the assessment format. Finding the middle ground between fast finishers and test lingerers is both an art and a science! When it comes to the MAP Growth assessment, here\u2019s what you should keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MAP Growth is designed for students to get 50% of questions wrong.<\/strong> This means that no amount of extra time spent on a question will necessarily allow a student to \u201cfigure it out.\u201d Teachers, be sure to explain to all students that the test is supposed to feel difficult. This is by design and allows the assessment to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2023\/the-zone-of-proximal-development-zpd-the-power-of-just-right\/\">exactly where a student is in their learning<\/a>. Consider showing your students our video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KU0F8rpn7kE\">\u201cIs your MAP Growth score good?\u201d<\/a> and remind them\u2014especially high achievers, who are used to puzzling out harder problems\u2014that many of the questions are supposed to be a little too hard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There is such a thing as too fast, and our software detects it.<\/strong> Rapid guessing is when a student flies through a test, primarily due to disengagement. While MAP Growth will slow students down with a visit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z13FjMW0lSQ&amp;ab_channel=NWEAvideos\">Slow-Down Sloth<\/a>, teachers and proctors can greatly help with this by explaining the value of the test to students. Explain the above point, that some items might feel too difficult, while others will feel just right. Help students understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2024\/map-growth-data-supports-instruction-beyond-math-ela-and-science\/\">value of this data<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Longer reading passages may slow down older students.<\/strong> Higher Lexile levels and word counts mean longer reading times, as students encounter more sophisticated vocabulary, structure, and ideas. Even with this level of difficulty, the longest average test time was 50 minutes (11th grade, spring 2023).<\/li>\n<li><strong>More complex questions may affect high-performing students.<\/strong> As the computer adapts to students at a higher level, providing them with questions of increasing difficulty, the math and reading become more complex. While this may make the student take longer to answer, this increase should only be slight. Again, remind high-achievers that the test is trying to find questions that are a bit too difficult and that there is no perfect score on MAP Growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A helpful metaphor for students<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of the MAP Growth assessment as a racetrack with progressively taller hurdles. Students might easily clear the first few and will have to exert more effort as the hurdles get taller. However, at some point, a hurdle will be too high for a student to clear. The point of the test is to find out the height of the ideal Goldilocks hurdle: just right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, what if a runner stopped the race and stood in front of a hurdle for five minutes, trying to figure out how to jump over it? They might eventually clear it but, in doing so, they\u2019ve missed the point of the race.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s all about balance<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know designing a rich assessment involves trade-offs. It\u2019s certainly easier to author and grade a short multiple-choice test, especially when that means we can start our next unit on time, but deeper assessment methods yield a more accurate result of student understanding that can save you time in the long run by helping you better understand how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/three-ways-to-put-assessment-data-to-work-in-the-classroom\/\">differentiate instruction and set learning goals<\/a> with students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to student growth, you crave a balance of trustworthy data <em>and<\/em> plenty of instructional time. At NWEA, we aim for balance as well, creating a reasonable assessment duration that finds a student\u2019s true ability level: not too hard and not too simple. And it turns out, 43 items is just right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To read more related articles here on <em>Teach. Learn. Grow.<\/em>, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/category\/assessment\/\">archive of assessment posts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/product\/map-growth\/\">archive of posts on using MAP Growth data<\/a> in the classroom. Looking to bring the MAP Growth assessment to your school or district? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/contact-us\/sales-information\/\">Contact our sales team.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing educators could always use more of is time. That is top of mind here at NWEA, especially when it comes to how many questions are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":24751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"The MAP Growth assessment gives teachers accurate, actionable data on student achievement while preserving valuable instructional time.","footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[619],"grade_level":[830,831,832,833],"product":[835],"theme":[],"coauthors":[{"id":183,"name":"Kailey Rhodes, NWEA","link":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/author\/krhodes\/","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif","48":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif","96":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif"}}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The MAP Growth assessment gives teachers accurate, actionable data on student achievement while preserving valuable instructional time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are testing, we thought it was timely to share some findings from NWEA Research on average test duration.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Teach. Learn. Grow.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NWEA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_1200x630_social.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kailey Rhodes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are testing, we thought it was timely to share some findings from @NWEA Research on average test duration. #edchat #edresearch #MAPGrowth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_1200x630_social.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nwea\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nwea\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kailey Rhodes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kailey Rhodes\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b8b774a28bde352ef5a98677ab9681a2\"},\"headline\":\"Testing duration: How long is too long to spend on the MAP Growth assessment?\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\"},\"wordCount\":1059,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Classroom tips\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Assessment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\",\"name\":\"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"The MAP Growth assessment gives teachers accurate, actionable data on student achievement while preserving valuable instructional time.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Testing duration: How long is too long to spend on the MAP Growth assessment?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Teach. Learn. Grow.\",\"description\":\"The education blog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"NWEA\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d1ushxurfijnsi.cloudfront.net\/blog\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NWEA_Blog_FEB23.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/d1ushxurfijnsi.cloudfront.net\/blog\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NWEA_Blog_FEB23.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":642,\"caption\":\"NWEA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nwea\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/nwea\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/nweamap\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NWEA\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nwea\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b8b774a28bde352ef5a98677ab9681a2\",\"name\":\"Kailey Rhodes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dc6ca8cdd6a4fc1559451856b1c7d8e9\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"caption\":\"Kailey Rhodes\"},\"description\":\"With a background in middle school teaching, Kailey Rhodes is passionate about educational solutions that keep students at the forefront of their learning experience. She has taken this passion beyond the classroom, authoring and piloting curricula and leading webinars on education technology and pedagogical hotspots including curriculum development, e-sports in K\u201312, and how to (really) teach grammar. Her work in the classroom has included sixth grade mathematics at Northwest Academy in Portland, Oregon, a school where students spend just as much time in academic subjects as in arts classes.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/author\/krhodes\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?","description":"The MAP Growth assessment gives teachers accurate, actionable data on student achievement while preserving valuable instructional time.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?","og_description":"As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are testing, we thought it was timely to share some findings from NWEA Research on average test duration.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/","og_site_name":"Teach. Learn. Grow.","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NWEA","article_published_time":"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_1200x630_social.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Kailey Rhodes","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?","twitter_description":"As fall is in full swing, and most schools and districts are testing, we thought it was timely to share some findings from @NWEA Research on average test duration. #edchat #edresearch #MAPGrowth","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2018\/09\/testing-duration-How-long-is-too-long-to-spend-on-the-MAP-Growth-assessment_1200x630_social.jpg","twitter_creator":"@nwea","twitter_site":"@nwea","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kailey Rhodes","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/"},"author":{"name":"Kailey Rhodes","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b8b774a28bde352ef5a98677ab9681a2"},"headline":"Testing duration: How long is too long to spend on the MAP Growth assessment?","datePublished":"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/"},"wordCount":1059,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["Classroom tips"],"articleSection":["Assessment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/","name":"Testing Duration: How Long is Too Long to Spend on the MAP Growth Assessment?","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-02-21T13:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-18T16:45:48+00:00","description":"The MAP Growth assessment gives teachers accurate, actionable data on student achievement while preserving valuable instructional time.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/how-long-is-too-long-to-spend-map-growth-assessment\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Testing duration: How long is too long to spend on the MAP Growth assessment?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/","name":"Teach. Learn. Grow.","description":"The education blog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"NWEA","url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/d1ushxurfijnsi.cloudfront.net\/blog\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NWEA_Blog_FEB23.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/d1ushxurfijnsi.cloudfront.net\/blog\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NWEA_Blog_FEB23.png","width":1200,"height":642,"caption":"NWEA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nwea\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/nwea","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/nweamap\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NWEA","https:\/\/twitter.com\/nwea"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b8b774a28bde352ef5a98677ab9681a2","name":"Kailey Rhodes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dc6ca8cdd6a4fc1559451856b1c7d8e9","url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif","caption":"Kailey Rhodes"},"description":"With a background in middle school teaching, Kailey Rhodes is passionate about educational solutions that keep students at the forefront of their learning experience. She has taken this passion beyond the classroom, authoring and piloting curricula and leading webinars on education technology and pedagogical hotspots including curriculum development, e-sports in K\u201312, and how to (really) teach grammar. Her work in the classroom has included sixth grade mathematics at Northwest Academy in Portland, Oregon, a school where students spend just as much time in academic subjects as in arts classes.","url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/author\/krhodes\/"}]}},"formatted_date":"02.21.25","post_default_image":{"ID":16450,"id":16450,"title":"","filename":"6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social.png","filesize":1169907,"url":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social.png","link":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/2025\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social\/","alt":"","author":"142","description":"","caption":"","name":"6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":16447,"date":"2021-12-15 18:43:32","modified":"2023-05-16 19:36:21","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1200,"height":630,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social-300x158.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":158,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social-768x403.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":403,"large":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social.png","large-width":1200,"large-height":630,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social.png","1536x1536-width":1200,"1536x1536-height":630,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social.png","2048x2048-width":1200,"2048x2048-height":630,"lg_square":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social-325x325.png","lg_square-width":325,"lg_square-height":325,"rel_thumb":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6-ways-to-help-your-child-read-fluently-cover-to-cover_1200x630_social-720x378.png","rel_thumb-width":720,"rel_thumb-height":378}},"time_to_read":"5-minute read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24933,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions\/24933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"grade_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grade_level?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"nwea_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theme?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}