This offers an inside look at how one school, district, and education agency have prioritized formative practices and the changes they've seen as a result.
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Growth Matters - 7 key criteria for measuring growth
If you’re serious about measuring growth, you want to know your data is accurate and actionable. Learn how seven aspects of growth measurement affect your data integrity.
We can do better: 5 guiding principles for improving fluency assessment
Cindy Jiban, PhD, writes about what's missing and misguided in oral reading fluency assessment today and how to fix it in this brief white paper.
Guiding Instruction in Intervention Programs
You need an assessment that shows why students are struggling and what skills they need to learn. Discover why mastery measures can be invaluable progress monitoring tools.
Using Assessment Data To Shape Instruction
Assessment data give us a way to measure learning and inform instruction. Here, two educators share how they are using data as a compass to steer students’ learning paths.
The State of Proficiency
In 2007, NWEA and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute collaborated on The Proficiency Illusion, a study that illustrated the issues created by having each state set its own standards for what constitutes
MAP College Readiness Benchmarks Study
Preparing students for success in college and the workplace is at the center of educational policy debates across the country. According to a widely-accepted definition, a student who is college ready
The Accountability Illusion
This study examines the No Child Left Behind accountability systems and the basic adequate yearly progress (AYP) rules for 28 states as they operate in practice.
Modeling Student Test-Taking Motivation in the Context of an Adaptive Achievement Test
This study examined the utility of response time-based analyses in understanding the behavior of unmotivated test takers.
NWEA Guidance on the Creation of Student Learning Objectives
Over the past few years, federal and state education policies have shifted to require teachers to set student growth goals. This was intended, in part, to focus more attention on accountability for im
Evaluating the Effect of Random Selection on Virtual Comparison Group Creation
This study evaluated the procedures for selecting students to be used as Virtual Comparisons for a study group of 1,000 students in an effort to determine whether the random selection procedures creat
School Conditional Growth Model: How to Make an "Apples to Apples" Comparison Possible?
The increasing demand to hold schools accountable for student outcomes has drawn a great deal of attention. It is generally acknowledged that an effective school and school system provides a positivel
The "Phantom" Collapse of Student Achievement in New York
