My daughter (3rd grade) recently gave me feedback about why she doesn't look forward to these tests and I found it important to consider. When she sees her peers finishing the test before her she gets antsy to finish so she can read, draw, or do something else silently at her desk until all of her classmates are finished. The standardized way a test is administered is as important, if not more important, than the actual test questions and results. My daughter thought she was less knowledgeable and slower than the other students because she was taking longer to finish (so henceforth she rushed), until I explained how the test worked to her. I encourage NWEA to consider adding mock questions at the end of any students completed testing so all students finish their tests at the same time. This not only helps the students who advance through the questions but also the students who want to finish early. If the latter knows they will have to answer questions for a set amount of time, maybe they won't rush through it as much. If students will be finishing at varying times, I think all teachers who administer this test should have to explain how it works.