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Select your state or test alignment below to view Instructional Areas, alignment to MAP Skills strands, upcoming test releases, and more.

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Family Toolkit

Resources for parents

Creating a personal learning journey

We know that children learn better-and faster-when teachers have a clear picture of what each student knows and what they are ready to learn next.

That's why our assessments react to each student's answers. In the testing world, this makes our tests "adaptive," or personalized to measure the needs of every student.

If your student answers a question correctly, the test follows up with a more challenging question.

If your student answers incorrectly, the test follows up with an easier question.

Adaptive tests make it possible for teachers to pinpoint what each child needs in order to learn best. At NWEA® we help teachers understand your student's unique learning needs-because every student matters.

Family Resources

See how teachers use MAP Growth data - from a student's point of view.

Before using MAP, we were missing the full picture of how to teach kids who were gifted and talented, or struggling to learn, or were English language learners. But now we know what our students are ready to learn before we even begin teaching them. We weren't expecting to see such consistent, major growth for our students across the board.
Linda Foote, Former Instructional Technology Specialist, Poway Unified School District, California

After each MAP Growth test, results are delivered in the form of a RIT score that reflects the student's academic knowledge, skills, and abilities. Think of this score like marking height on a growth chart. You can tell how tall your child is at various points in time and how much they have grown between one stage and another.

The RIT (Rasch Unit) scale is a stable, equal-interval scale. Equal-interval means that a change of 10 RIT points indicates the same thing regardless of whether a student is at the top, bottom, or middle of the scale, and a RIT score has the same meaning regardless of grade level or age of the student. You can compare scores over time to tell how much growth a student has made.

What subjects are available with MAP Growth?

There are MAP Growth tests for grades 2 - 12 in reading, language usage, math, and science.

There are also primary grades tests for grades K - 2, referred to as MAP Growth K-2, in reading and math. With these child-friendly tests for young learners, students wear headphones, since many questions include audio to assist students still learning to read.

How do I learn more about my student's test results, and who do I contact with specific questions?

Ask your student's school or teacher about your their test results and what more you can do to help your student achieve their academic goals.

Due to privacy laws regarding student information (specifically stemming from the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA]), NWEA is unable to discuss any student information, test results, or school assessment programs directly with parents, guardians, or other family members.

What does NWEA do with my student's information? Is it secure?

NWEA uses technological and operational measures to ensure security and privacy, including regular security audits and monitoring, technological controls, physical access controls, and privacy training for employees.

NWEA does not use your student's personally identifiable information (PII) for any purpose other than to provide services to their school. Combined information that has been stripped of PII, and therefore is not traceable to any student, is used for research and development so we can continuously improve our products and accelerate learning for all students.

We do not sell PII. Data sharing (if any) is completely at the control of the educational institutions that purchase our products.

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Resources for parents We know that children learn better-and faster-when teachers have a clear picture of what each student knows and what they are ready to learn next. That's why our assessments react to each student's answers. In the testing world, this makes our tests "adaptive," or personalized to measure the needs of every student.

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Parent Resources, RIT Reference Charts, Your Reading Path, Kahn Academy, College Explorer

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Sample Parent Letter One_Introducing MAP Growth (1)

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Sample Parent Letter Two_MAP Growth Providing Results

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NWEA Corporate Brochure

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Fact Sheet

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Algebra, Geometry, Integrated Math

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CCSS and NGSS

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Sample questions at each RIT Band

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Username and Password: grow

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Quick Reference

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recommended example

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Getting Started with MAP Growth (padlet)

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Getting Started with MAP Growth (padlet)

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K-12 educators need accurate assessment data to help students learn, but when students disengage from a test by rapid-guessing excessively, their performance can be misrepresented. This is especially relevant in connection with efforts to close opportunity and achievement gaps because NWEA research shows that students from underrepresented backgrounds are more likely to rapidly guess on test questions.

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ProLearning Online:             How to Proctor  

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ProLearning Online:             How to Proctor  

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(will need username and password that will be provided once enrolled with NWEA)