This study sets college readiness performance benchmarks on the MAP® Growth™ reading and mathematics assessments for students in grades 6 through 11. These benchmarks indicate whether students are likely to score at or above college readiness thresholds on ACT® and SAT® math and reading tests.

This user guide explains how to navigate the College Explorer, a powerful tool for students to use with guidance counselors, teachers, or parents to plan for their academic future. It includes step-by-step directions, FAQs, and key definitions related to the research linking MAP® Growth™ scores to ACT® and SAT® scores.

NWEA researcher Karyn Lewis sits down with new general manager Sabine Wallis at Fusion in Orlando to discuss Wallis’s personal journey towards becoming an education leader and her plans for the organization.

How calibrated proficiency modeling, an enterprise ontology, and cascading inference power trustworthy personalization.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 detailed research study is essential to account for changes in US student demographics, postpandemic shifts in student performance, and the item-selection algorithm in the newly enhanced version of MAP® Growth™.

NWEA research webinar with Dr. Naomi Duran and Dr. Megan Kuhfeld who shared three recently published studies highlighting insights on elementary grades, including trends in kindergarten redshirting, K-2 achievement growth post-COVID, and an analysis on academic achievement trends for boys.

Brian Amsler is the principal at Lincoln Middle School in Schiller Park School District in Illinois, where the NWEA Research Team first identified how these strategies work in concert to bring about growth. In this conversation, Brian speaks with Dr. David Collum, Data & Assessment Coordinator at Confluence Academies in St. Louis, MO about his efforts to put the Transformative Ten in action and the challenges to creating a high growth mindset.