Computerized Adaptive Testing and NCLB
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Instructional data and sub-skill performance reports inform teachers on placement of students in curricula in early primary grades.
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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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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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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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Whether a school makes “adequate yearly progress” hinges on the state in which it’s located as much as its students’ performance, new study finds.
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One-Day Learning Opportunity will Help Educators Ignite Kid-Centric Education.
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Carl Hauser and G. Gage Kingsbury Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA
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Three-Day Conference Designed to Spark Ideas for Student Growth.
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This class report provides each student’s term-to-term growth and shows how that growth relates to the student’s growth targets. Growth targets come from the 2002 NWEA RIT Scale Norms.
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NWEA overview for members of the media.
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Overview of the End-of-Course Assessments that are included in the standard MAP license.
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This document specifies the minimum technical requirements needed to run the MAP testing system and related components.
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A paper for the symposium: Issues in the use of Longitudinal Student Achievement Data in Monitoring School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American...
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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress‐Plus (ISTEP+)
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NWEA completed a project to connect the scale of Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSA) used for Pennsylvania mathematics and reading assessments with NWEA’s RIT scale. Information from the PSSA assessments was...
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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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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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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT)
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A Study of the Alignment of the NWEA RIT Scale with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
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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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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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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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This paper was presented at the 2012 meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). By Shudong Wang and Gregg Harris
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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 Steven L. Wise and Lingling Ma
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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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