Making assessment data approachable
The Center for School and Student Progress partners directly with schools and districts across the country, engaging in collaborative research on issues that are most relevant to educators’ work with their students.
The Center provides expert consultation to NWEA partner schools and districts to help make assessment data actionable to improve outcomes for students and applicable to address myriad policy questions. Researchers in the Center also collaborate with schools to create new reports and data visualizations and advise on best practices for assessment integrity.
NWEA RESEARCH
Advancing practice and policy
Director Nate Jensen shares how his team’s researchers work side by side with educators to promote school policies and practices that work for students.
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Featured Research
Data visualization
Mapping the road to college
College Explorer from NWEA® helps students, parents, and teachers develop pathways to higher education. This powerful tool links MAP® Growth™ scores with national benchmarks for colleges, universities, and even specific majors.
Topics: Social-emotional learning, College & career readiness, High school, Innovations in reporting & assessment
Research by the Center for School and Student Progress
Research partnership map
Explore this interactive map to learn more about some NWEA research partnerships.
ELLs on the cusp: Should we reclassify?
This article explores the complexities teachers face in determining when English Learner students near the proficiency threshold should be reclassified, and provides important recent research findings to help guide the decision-making process.
Topics: English Language Learners, Equity
Upgraded program helps students map a pathway to college
Updated College Explorer provides educators, students, and parents with insights into which colleges and universities students are already on track to enter, and the academic growth goals they need in order to reach the median ACT or SAT score at those colleges and universities.
District Administration
Topics: College & career readiness, High school, Innovations in reporting & assessment
Help kids plan for the future with College Explorer
In this interview, NWEA’s Greg King shares how recent updates to College Explorer make it an even more powerful tool to help students, families, teachers, and counselors navigate—and prepare for—post-secondary options.
Topics: College & career readiness
Mapping the road to college
College Explorer from NWEA® helps students, parents, and teachers develop pathways to higher education. This powerful tool links MAP® Growth™ scores with national benchmarks for colleges, universities, and even specific majors.
Topics: College & career readiness, High school, Innovations in reporting & assessment
Impacts of school entry age on academic growth through 2nd Grade: A multi-state regression discontinuity analysis
This paper contributes novel causal evidence for the impacts of kindergarten entry age on academic growth in the first three years of school.
Topics: Early learning, Growth modeling
The impact of English Learner reclassification on high school reading and academic progress
This study estimates the causal impact of 8th grade English learner (EL) reclassification on high school English language arts (ELA) standardized test scores, SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) reading, and on-track to graduate status.
Topics: English Language Learners, High-growth schools & practices, Reading & language arts
