This comprehensive technical report documents the design, development, and validation of MAP Growth Course-Specific assessments for the 2024–2025 school year. It presents evidence of psychometric quality, including adaptive testing methods, reliability, validity, fairness, and score interpretation across grades and courses.

This technical report documents the processes and procedures employed by NWEA to build and support the English MAP Reading Fluency assessment.

This document presents results from a linking study conducted by NWEA in May 2024 to statistically connect the grades 1–5 English Amira Reading Mastery (ARM) scores with the Scaled-Words-Correct-Per-Minute (SWCPM) scores from the MAP Reading Fluency benchmark assessment taken during Fall and Winter 2023–2024.

This executive summary outlines results from the Content Proximity spring 2022 pilot study, including information on the validity, reliability, and test score comparability of MAP Growth assessments that leverage this new item-selection algorithm.

The purpose of this research report is to provide detailed information about updates to the MAP Growth item-selection algorithm. This brief includes results from the Content Proximity pilot study, including information on the validity, reliability, and test score comparability of MAP Growth assessments that leverage this new item-selection algorithm.

This report documents the results of an item parameter drift study designed to check the parameter stability of MAP Growth items.

Two studies were conducted to evaluate whether the existing MAP Growth item parameter estimates are invariant across different calibration samples.