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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

PASSING THE TORCH: Looks like NWEA, provider of the popular MAP exam, will now also administer the OECD Test for Schools Pisa Exam to US students, beginning in the fall of 2016. Is it just us, or does ...

The NWEA, which says it provides map-testing assessments to Roman Catholic dioceses and almost two thousand Catholic schools across the country, features articles on its website encouraging educators ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2006--Northwest Evaluation Association, a national non-profit organization focused on improving K-12 assessment, announces the addition of the first schools ...