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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those early differences can have critical implications for whether students ultimately reach proficiency by third grade — a critical academic benchmark closely tied to long-term educational success.

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.

Just 1 in 10 kindergarteners in the bottom fifth of their class reach proficiency by third grade, a new analysis finds.

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 ...

Proficiency by grade 3 is linked to long-term academic and life outcomes, making early identification of struggling students key.

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, announced today a new national dashboard that provides timely trends and data on U.S. student academic ...