Wisconsin Linking Study JAN2017
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Stepstone Academy is a Cleveland-based, urban charter school with an innovative blended learning model. Stepstone’s leaders knew they needed a research-based assessment like MAP Growth K-2 to support differentiation and...
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North Mason Schools began using MAP assessments in 2007, testing 2nd through 8th graders three times a year to assess their readiness for state exams. But individual schools and classrooms...
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A New Mexico school uses data to turn around school performance and accelerate growth for every child.
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CICS West Belden in Chicago has embraced personalized learning and integrated technology, formative assessment, and progress monitoring tools into each classroom. Each student has individual skills to work on in...
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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) Testing Program
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Read Make Assessment Work for All Students: Multiple Measures Matter, the 2016 national survey conducted by NWEA and Gallup, to learn what students, parents, and educators really think about assessment. With...
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NWEA™ has completed a study to predict performance on the ACT® achievement tests in reading and mathematics using scores on the MAP® Growth™ assessments for reading and mathematics for students...
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Not only do the definitions of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) vary across the country, but the requirements for the content of SLOs vary as well, with some more aligned than...
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This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, April 2015 in Chicago IL. Author: Shudong Wang
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Produced by NWEA and Grunwald Associates LLC, For Every Child, Multiple Measures: What Parents and Educators Want From K-12 Assessments gauges the assessment needs of parents, teachers and district administrators...
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Fairmont Schools, a private school network in California, began using the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment™ (CPAA™) in 2009 and currently uses it at all four of its primary schools to...
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MAP Growth Case study Wayzata, MN High schools used MAP Math 6+ to help measure progress and evaluate program effectiveness. Wayzata high school offers a rigorous math program in which...
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When the first edition of this study, For Every Child, Multiple Measures, appeared two years ago, the educational landscape was dominated by looming change. The Common Core State Standards had...
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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. By Shudong Wang, Hong Jiao and Liru Zhang
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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. By Shudong Wang
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Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). By Shudong Wang
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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education. By Yun Xiang and Shudong Wang
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Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education By Shudong Want, Hong Jiao and Yun Xiang
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Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Francisco, CA, April, 2013. Authors: Steven L. Wise, Lingling Ma, John Cronin, Robert...
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There are many challenges to providing validity evidence for CAT tests because of its uniqueness compared to fixed form tests. This study, using real data, provides empirical evidence of construct...
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This study tracks the academic growth of a large sample of students, all of them high achievers within their own schools, over a three-year period. Their achievement scores were matched with...
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The Westfield-Washington Schools is located above the state capitol in Hamilton County, Indiana. This largely affluent and high-performing community has a K-12 population of 6,100, with six elementary (K-4) schools...
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This paper was presented at the 2012 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Conference. By Steven L. Wise and Lingling Ma
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This paper was presented at the 2012 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Conference. By Shudong Wang and Hong Jiao
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This paper was presented at the 2012 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Conference. By Liru Zhang and Shudong Wang
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It is a common practice for many standardized educational tests to employ a testlet-based format in which a bundle of items share a common stimulus (e.g., a reading passage or...
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An update to a 2007 report on proficiency (The Proficiency Illusion), this study looks at differences in the difficulty of proficiency cut scores, by state, grade, and subject. By Sarah...
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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT)
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As more schools are held accountable for current state educational accountability systems, many criticisms have been leveled at the inadequacy and inconsistency of status-based measures. This study helps to view...
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This study investigated the relationships between when a test is administered and the amount of test-taking effort exhibited by examinees. Three time-related variables were investigated: the time of year the...
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This study, conducted in partnership with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, examines NCLB and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) rules for 28 states. Based on this analysis, we can see how AYP...
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Paper prepared for the Technical Issues in Large Scale Assessment Subgroup State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards Council of Chief State School Officers By John Cronin and G. Gage...
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The study provides estimates linking proficient cut scores on five state assessments to equivalent scores on Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), a vertically scaled computer-adaptive assessment developed by NWEA.
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