Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment was named a Top Product by readers of District Administration magazine. MAP was recognized for making a positive difference in education by K12 leaders...
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment was named a Top Product by readers of District Administration magazine. MAP was recognized for making a positive difference in education by K12 leaders...
Tyler Independent School District has selected the NWEA suite of assessments for use with over 15,000 students in Pre-K through high school. Tyler ISD is the largest district in east...
Announcement of the members of a national Task Force on Assessment Education for Teachers. The Task Force brings together pre-service and in-service educators, assessment experts and thought leaders to foster national...
A recent Hechinger Report article by our president and CEO Matt Chapman and Rick Stiggins, founder of the Assessment Training Institute and an advisor on our assessment literacy work, dives...
McDowell County, which sits at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, has chosen Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) to be their universal screener and to drive...
NWEA added two new directors to its board: Deb Delisle and Patricia Smith. Deb Delisle is appointed to the post of ASCD’s Executive Director and CEO. She has over 30...
The new initiative is designed to advance teacher preparation and professional development in the use of assessment in teaching and learning. The initiative includes a Task Force that will guide efforts...
Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco), NWEA and MasteryConnect announced today they have entered into a partnership to provide high-quality interim assessment tools to all schools in the Golden, Colorado district.
Skills Navigator®, the new classroom assessment system from the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), has just been named a Best in Show product by Tech & Learning magazine. The award recognizes...
At the 2015 ISTE Conference NWEA announced the launch of Skills Navigator®, a new K-8 classroom assessment system for math, reading comprehension, vocabulary and language usage that helps teachers accomplish...
Dr. Pamela Jones, Director of Curriculum and Assessment at Chippewa Valley School District, highlights use of NWEA interim assessment tools as part of a balanced assessment system that prepares students and builds...
Raymond Yeagley has published an article in the June 2015, School Administrators magazine titled, Shifting Assessments. In this article Raymond discusses the rightly placed expectation that test scores will be lower...
Possible declines in student proficiency levels will signal much debate in districts and around the country on what we teach and how we measure student learning. This dialogue is needed—and...
Kappan has created a site focused on the Common Core, featuring the Phantom Collapse which was written by researchers John Cronin and Nate Jensen. Click here: http://www.kappancommoncore.org/
Bear Creek Middle School in Fairburn, GA, will be making good use of their Innovation Funds grant to increase student math “mastery” and train teachers. They will be using MAP to measure student...
This school reverse engineered key college predictors to help students start to reach their ultimate goal as early as fifth grade. Read more about this story at this link.
Measures of Academic Progress Spanish-language Math assessment offers real-time data for teachers to improve achievement of Spanish-speaking students.
At a recent Cody School Board meeting (located in Cody, WY), Assistant Superintendent Betsy Sell outlined the success of MAP test. “The beauty of MAP is that it allows all...
McClintock Principal Paul Williams and Jennifer Brown, the school’s New Classrooms Director of Growth & Expansion, said McClintock Middle School (Charlotte, NC) was the first school in the Carolinas to...
Preliminary results … using NWEA’s MAP assessments in 23 personalized learning schools over two years, show promising outcomes – better achievement gains in English and math than comparison schools with...