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 ...

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 ...

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 ...