According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 37% of 4th grade students performed below basic level in 2022, which is not significantly different from scores in 1992. This webinar for district leaders discusses how to apply the science of reading in making real change.

Help students, caregivers, and families put assessment in context with practical guiding questions and conversation starters.

A preview of what students will encounter in NWEA assessments and other high-quality assessments for multidimensional science standards in the coming years.

Overview of how NWEA Science Content Specialists align items to multidimensional standards such as the Next Generation Science Standards.

Researchers from NWEA partnered with NewSchools Venture Fund  to explore the relationship between school culture and climate, social and emotional learning, and academic achievement. Learn more about this innovative research partnership.

Funded by Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility Grant, NWEA joined with Perkins Access, Governor Morehead School, and Sonja Steinbach, a math educator who works with students with vision disabilities. Together, they embarked on a unique research partnership to make middle school mathematics assessments more accessible for students with vision impairments.

In the wake of instructional challenges faced over the past two school years, NWEA, the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the Center for Education Policy and Research (CEPR) at Harvard University have partnered with a coalition of large school districts across the country to help determine which COVID recovery interventions are working and to what extent.