Bruno and Meyer Lead Development of Assessment Products and Services that Support Teaching and Learning

Educators reflect on what drives, inspires, and motivates them, including their students and love of teaching

Previous Education Director for the National Governors Association Joins NWEA to Support Mission to Help All Kids Learn

New adaptive interim assessment model will provide longitudinal growth data, instructionally relevant insights, and summative proficiency scores  

Use of Achievement as Predominate Measure of School Performance Has Potentially Adverse Impact for Low-Income, Historically Marginalized Students

 MAP results will now include both Lexile and Quantile measures, providing powerful data to differentiate ELA and math instruction and to monitor growth

Views on Which Skills Should be Taught, Where, and by Whom Vary Widely Teamwork, Critical Thinking, and Creativity Seen as Critical Skills, but Adequate Assessment Is Lagging

Partnership combines leading EdTech company instruction with advanced assessment tools to place students in effective, individualized learning paths

Contract Enables All Mississippi Public School Districts to Use MAP Growth Assessments to Identify Need for Early Reading Interventions

MAP Growth Approved for Use in Four Assessment Categories, Including Diagnostic and Standardized Assessments for K-3 Reading

New time-saving, group-administered K-3 oral reading fluency and comprehension assessment earns prestigious industry recognition

More than 300,000 Nebraska students completed the new computer-adaptive assessment custom built by NDE, Nebraska teachers, NWEA. Press Release from the Nebraska Department of Education

Contract Enables All Michigan Public School Districts and Public School Academies to Select MAP Growth to Assess Math and ELA Academic Performance in Grades 3-8

Educators and administrators serve as judges of premier awards for the software and information industries

Presentations in New York City April 12-17 at American Educational Research Association and National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meetings  

NWEA and FEV Tutor Partner to Give Each Student Access to Customized Real-Time Tutoring and On-Demand Support FEV Tutor Uses Students’ MAP Growth Assessment Results to Democratize Private Tutoring

Partnership equips educators with a new way to differentiate each student’s learning experience by connecting MAP Growth assessment with the proven power of DreamBox.

Independent Study Concludes More Than 97 Percent of NWEA’s MAP Growth Assessment Items Align to Common Core State Standards Findings Consistent Across All Grades K-12 in ELA and Math  

NWEA has partnered with the Nebraska Department of Education to provide summative, interim, and formative assessments, as well as professional learning opportunities for educators, for the new Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System....

NWEA Researchers Share Advances in Growth Modeling; Present on Social-Emotional Learning and ESSA, Value-Added Models, Summer Learning Loss at National Conferences in March Presentations at Society for Research on Educational...

MAP Growth has been approved for the fifth year in a row as a “Student Growth Assessment” by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). VDOE awarded a contract to NWEA,...

NWEA Launches MAP Reading Fluency, First and Only K-3 Oral Reading Assessment Using Speech Recognition, Automatic Scoring, Computer Adaptive Technology. Enables group administration to whole class in 20 minutes; assesses...

The 2017 State Teachers of the Year share personal and powerful stories of the moments that have mattered most to them and their students in the second season of the...

Recognition of new MAP Suite assessment system that helps teachers impact instruction

Carnegie Learning and NWEA partner to provide customized learning paths for math instruction.

MAP Growth, from the not-for-profit assessment solutions provider NWEA, won platinum in the assessment category in the 2017 THE Journal Readers’ Choice Awards.

LanguaMetrics, Inc., the developer of the LanguaMetrics™ Speech Platform based on SRI International technology, has awarded exclusive rights in the United States K-20 market to NWEA.

The NWEA board of directors today announced that Christopher Minnich has been named as the organization’s new chief executive officer.

The edtech platform Clever and the not-for-profit assessment solutions provider NWEA announced today a renewed relationship to make it easier for school districts and states to adopt and manage MAP...

NWEA Expands Partnership with Arizona Educators to Support State’s “Move On When Reading” Early Literacy Initiative

Assessments Support Michigan’s Early Literacy Initiative; Tightly Aligned with Michigan Academic Standards

NWEA introduces MAP Growth capability that detects and addresses lack of student engagement in assessment.

NWEA researchers won first place in the first annual Social-Emotional Assessment Design Challenge, a competition for assessments that measure social-emotional learning, or SEL. The winning study, led by NWEA research...

NWEA and Wowzers, a comprehensive online math program for grades K-8, announced that they have forged a partnership to help teachers use MAP Growth assessment results to personalize math instruction...

The Arkansas Department of Education has selected NWEA as a Qualified Vendor for the state’s K-2 assessment program. Starting this fall, school districts can use the NWEA Arkansas K-2 Assessment...

Matt Chapman, who has served as CEO of NWEA for eleven years, announces today that he will be retiring at the end of the calendar year.

Innovative research partnership evaluates program effectiveness, informs data-driven decisions for district Leaders, builds capacity for quality research.

National Task Force on Assessment Education, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers, releases new guidance to provide recommendations and language for professional development and parent and...

Partnership empowers educators to use MAP RIT Range scores to differentiate reading instruction and independent student reading practice.

Edmentum, a leading provider of web-based learning solutions, and NWEA are expanding their partnership to give schools and districts flexibility to leverage tools they are currently using to meet individual...

MAP has been named winner of Tech & Learning Magazine’s 2016 Awards of Excellence. The 34-year-old program recognizes the best new and upgraded education tools that help educators in teaching,...

Gallup, a global research and analytic company, just released Gallup’s Top Education Findings in 2016, and the list includes a key data point uncovered in Make Assessment Work for All...

With the new ESSA regulations requiring accountability systems based on multiple measures, a new guide from researchers at the not-for-profit NWEA provides educators with actionable steps they can begin implementing...

“Leading from the Classroom,” is a podcast series featuring firsthand accounts from the 2016 State Teachers of the Year. Each episode features a different teacher sharing a personal and poignant...

NWEA has launched a pilot program to certify that MAP growth assessment results are incorporated and represented with fidelity on platforms that aggregate student and school data. Chicago-based Otus has signed...

NWEA has announced a partnership with Esol Education, an international school management organization, to provide training to educators using NWEA’s MAP growth assessment in the Middle East. Through the partnership,...

Killeen Independent School District (ISD) has selected the NWEA  Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) growth assessments for use with almost 30,000 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The district piloted...

Computer adaptive academic growth assessment Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) for Science has been aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)*. Developed for grades 3-8, MAP for Science precisely...