Teachers hear a lot about getting students involved with their test data and goal setting, but how does that happen in practice? Last fall, we spent two days with Michelle Wiley, an instructional specialist at Phoenix Central School District in New York State. We went from classroom to classroom with Michelle as she helped kids understand their MAP Growth data and get excited about reaching their goals. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how she works with students and teachers.

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.

With this compilation of posts from our blog, Teach. Learn. Grow., we invite you to learn more about how to inspire a love of math in your classroom and help the next generation approach it with curiosity, confidence, and even excitement.

NWEA® continually refines the methodologies used to generate our norms so they remain statistically rigorous as well as accurate and relevant. This 2025 update 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® 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™.

Turn learning evidence into instructional action
Activate MAP® Growth™ with professional learning experiences that build basic product-use capacity, hone assessment literacy, improve goal setting and responsive instructional planning, and build deeper data competency.

MAP® Growth™ norms are one of our most critical assets in helping partners make sense of student performance and progress. They offer a national frame of reference that allows educators to answer these frequently asked key questions.