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NWEA Testing

Both DesCartes (what is DesCartes?) and the Instructional Resources reports (what are Instructional Resources?) have been purchased for all SAU 16 schools.

Teacher training materials in video format are available on CD - see your school principal.

NWEA Website Links

NWEA Main Website - Sales & General information about the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) tests.

• Support Resources - documents and templates
• Learning Continuum
    ID: Learning Continuum
    PW: LCAccess
• Document Library
• DesCartes
• Instructional Resources

NWEA Reports Website

• Login to view reports and perform some testing tasks such as roster file uploads and testing exception reporting. Requires ID and password.
• View Annotated MAP Reports section on Reports website (before you login!) for detailed explanations of the data contained in your MAP Reports (pdfs)
• If class dropdown does not display specific class data selections, use Firefox browser.

Teacher Information

Teacher Login Instructions for SAU 16 (pdf)

Essential SAU 16 Teacher Information about NWEA Tests

Additional Teacher Information about MAP Testing (all are pdf format - require Adobe Acrobat reader)

• Definitions and Additional Information
• 2002 Normative Data - Monitoring Growth in student achievement
• NWEA RIT Block Growth Norms charts
• Form - Class breakdown by Overall RIT Score (for 3 subjects)
• Form - Class breakdown by Goal Score RIT Ranges
• Instructions for use of the Lexile Website
• DesCartes Essentials (see pages 6-11)

Test Admin

NWEA Reports Website - Login to perform some testing tasks such as roster file uploads and testing exception reporting. Requires ID and password.

Lexiles

The Lexile Framework for Reading - Resources

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Other Links

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NWEA Website