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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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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The NWEA findings were especially true for students in high-poverty schools, where air conditioning may not be up to par.

In a massive study conducted during the 2020–21 school year, education researchers at NWEA found that students using MAP Accelerator personalized math instruction for at least 30 minutes a week ...

NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, released today a new report examining the impact of environmental temperatures on student performance in math and reading, and whether those effects ...