PEORIA — Near the beginning of the year, Whittier Primary School Principal Doug Atkins made the rounds, from classroom to classroom, urging students to meet their goals on what he grades as the most ...

Chicago Public Schools’ new administration has long complained that assessment tests for the state’s Illinois Standard Achievement Test set the bar too low when preparing kids for college. Now ...

The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) has launched a new iPad app, called MAP Testing, that is designed to let students use a touchscreen to take the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) and MAP ...

Assessment and research organization NWEA recently launched a free dashboard tracking national trends and data on U.S. student academic achievement and growth. The tool documents how K–8 students are ...

Last week, testing provider NWEA—best known for its district-level MAP Growth exams—came out with a bold new claim: The way states give summative assessments is broken. Its solution, however, was a ...

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Schools serving high-poverty and historically marginalized students are less likely to have recovered — but showed the ...

NWEA, created by educators, is a package of assessments for students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade, which allows teachers to use the data to create an individualized learning plan for ...

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PORTLAND, Ore.– K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA released today a new study that takes a deeper look into instructional practices driving high academic growth. Led by Dr. Chase ...

NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, today released a new research report examining academic recovery patterns post-COVID. The new study, titled "From Loss to Recovery: Diverging Paths ...