Since 2012, NWEA, in collaboration with Gallup and other research organizations, has conducted national and state surveys of students, parents, teachers, and school and district leaders to understand what they think about assessment.
In 2012, NWEA, with Grunwald Associates LLC, carried out the first formal survey of students and educators on assessments. The study showed that parents, teachers, and district administrators hold similar views on their top priorities for education, on what assessments should measure, on how well different assessments meet their needs, on how assessment results could be better used, and on who should make instructional decisions.
In 2014, in our second national study, NWEA, with Grunwald Associates LLC expanded on this research to include students, too often overlooked in discussion of assessment.