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 ...

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA has added an AI reading coach feature to its MAP Reading Fluency early literacy assessment product. Dubbed Maya, the Coach tool uses artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houston ISD’s elementary and middle school students achieved above average annual growth on the reading and math Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress exams but below ...

Ann Arbor Public Schools administrators announced this week that Ann Arbor Open will no longer administrate the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress test to its students.

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 ...

Every year, getting into Chicago’s most competitive public high schools is a gut-wrenching, high-stakes process for many students and their parents. This year, some parents say Chicago Public Schools ...

The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) has aligned its Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) for Science assessment with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). MAP for Science is designed to ...