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It is essential that assessment design aligns with evidence-based instructional practices. When there is a disconnect between how students are taught and how they are assessed, the validity and reliability of the resulting data are compromised (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education, 2014).
In classroom instruction, students are explicitly taught research-supported strategies such as previewing questions to establish purpose and flagging items to revisit. These practices are grounded in cognitive science. Research demonstrates that reducing cognitive load improves performance and accuracy (John Sweller, 1988), while metacognitive strategies such as self-monitoring and revisiting…1 vote -
Allow for the option to change text to speech voice
Allow for the option to change the voice for text to speech accommodations. The voice doesn't not accurately read the text, and will say /red/ when we would want /reed/ for the word read. It will also change long and short vowel sounds so that students are unable to understand what is being read to them.
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Enable TTS on Graphics and Images
Students who need TTS for all content should be able to use the embedded TTS feature within MAP - they should not have to learn to use a new tool like a screen reader just to access text in images and graphics. Screen readers will also read navigation buttons and other text on the screen that is not a part of the test item potentially creating confusion and adding cognitive load.
Please build images and graphics for test items that can be read aloud by the embedded TTS within MAP.
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Please add Spanish Lexile levels!
Please add the Lexile levels so that my teachers do not need another tool or time-consuming assessment. I realize there is some debate as to the accuracy of the Lexile levels in Spanish, but starting anywhere would be helpful and more equitable.
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Start on higher level of the test
Here is the thing, often times student may have a extremely high understanding of the topic, and starting off low is simply troublesome since you would ever reach your full potential, if you are unlucky enough to be paired with bugged system that won't allow you to get one step near the next RIT range. If we start hard first, then its easier to determine the students' full potential, rather than the base of their knowledge.
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Stacked English AND Spanish Math MAP Test (emergent bilingual students)
I love that the MAP Growth tests are offered in both English and Spanish. However, we are noticing a consistent issue in scores from newcomer students (those here between 1-3 years).
When they first come and take the test in Spanish, the scores are fairly accurate to what they are demonstrating in class. However, after that, all future learning is done primarily in English. If we continue testing in Spanish, they show minimal growth because they don't always know the vocabulary in their L1 (native language) and are unable to accurately demonstrate these new concepts on a Spanish test. Yet,…
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Districts to turn off an accomodation for a specific assessment.
Please develop a way to turn off, not allow, "Text-to-speech: Assets such as reading passages" to be turned on for Reading 2-5 and Reading 6+ assessment
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Provide instant feedback on practice tests.
Currently, students can take a practice test, but the correct answer is not provided. Provide the correct answer after each question and explain the answer.
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Ending the test is tricky.
At the end of the 2-5 elementary test, the students do not always click the final blue button. Then their data is lost in space and if it is not logged into later to click the final blue button, the data can disappear. The issue comes with using Chromebooks, and the screen does not display the final blue button and the student would have to scroll down to see it. This is often overlooked, especially in 2nd grade, because the year before they saw a cute puppy dog that said "great job". Can this button be removed and the "great…
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Update Race Codes
Our state (Maryland) requires reporting with the 2 new race codes be used for the 2026-2027 school year. The two changes made in 2024 at the Federal level include a Middle Eastern/Northern African category and making Hispanic a race and not a separate ethnicity with a race. Please update NWEA MAP to enable ingestion and reporting to include these new codes.
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The Family Report - Pulls Data for students who did not participate in the current administration
When generating the Family Report for a current administration, it generates a report for students who did not participate and shows data from previous administrations. This caused a lot of confusion for our high school families who received a Winter 2026 report for students who had not been required to participate in SY25-26. The Winter 2026 reports showed data from previous administrations. It would be ideal to have setting options so that school divisions could limit the reports to students who actually participated in the current year administration.
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NWEA MAPS Family Reports- Formatting is off-Blank Page
I am getting ready to print NWEA Maps Family Reports and noticed the formatting is off now. They have placed the blank page at the end, instead of the 2nd page after the whole class PDF. I have attached an example. Usually it is an easy print, double sided, but now you can't.
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Questions should be made relevant to the youth of today
Many of the questions in NWEA’s MAP testing are irrelevant, boring and completely not engaging to the youth of today. Many students loose interest a few questions in, and some students click through quickly just to get the testing over with. It is likely that many children would score better if they actually found the questions they were reading interesting during the reading test. As a 7th grader with a 250 in reading and a 255 in math, I can safely say that is someone with firsthand experience of these tests, many of the questions are very outdated. During a…
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Co-teacher Able to View Primary Teachers Test Session
We have many classes with a primary teacher and a special education or english learner co-teacher. It would be great if both teachers could simultaneously monitor the same test session that the primary teacher has created without having to give one of the teachers district proctor access.
We currently roster so that both teachers have access to the class within NWEA but with current functionalities only one teacher can see active test sessions at a time without having to suspend a test and start it again in another teachers session.2 votes -
When rostering, schools should be able to roster for all 3 testing sessions at the same time.
Make it so admin can roster for all testing session at one time. We should not have to roster before each session, Fall, Winter, and Spring.
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Sample Progress Report
Please update the Sample Progress report linked on the website to reflect the 2025 Norms. Thanks
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Bring back the info while looking at the Graph on student profile report
On the student profile report, bring back the info in the black box that used to appear when you hovered over a point on the student's graph that shows their individual growth over time. It was helpful to have this info in one place rather than having to click around for it.
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Display a note on family report
Display a note/comment on the family report explaining that it only can be displayed if you have active students on the active term.
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Batch Printing Report Options
To allow us the ability to select which assessments are listed on the family report. Currently, we can only select Language Arts, which includes both Language Usage and Reading. We would like to select only Reading.
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data from hovering over tests
In the past, you could hover over each testing date on the progress graph and see information about that specific test. Could that feature return? It was so very helpful and we are really missing it.
4 votes
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