Thanks for the update. Thought you might find this interesting too.
http://www.nwea.org/support/article/1027Will there be an alignment study done between MAP and college entrance exams such as ACT and SAT?
Not at this time. NWEA has had some interest in alignment studies of this nature and would like to pursue them, but there are obstacles. One requirement is to have a group of study participants who�ve taken both the NWEA assessments and the ACT/SAT at about the same time. Historically, most school districts have not tested 11th and 12th graders with MAP, so there is a short list of candidates. There is also the question of whether these volunteers would take the test seriously enough for the correlations to work. Another consideration is that each of these volunteers would have to agree to have their data released to us for study since the SAT/ACT test results are the property of the student and/or his parents.
