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Most NWEA partner middle schools offer only multidiscipline science courses, with far fewer offering only single-discipline courses than in the 2018 national sample

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2031: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Among NWEA partner schools, 83% offer only multidiscipline science courses, 14% offer both course types, and 3% offer only single-discipline courses. → Naomi Duran and Susan Kowalski 2026

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Naomi Duran and Susan Kowalski 2026

Naomi Duran and Susan Kowalski. (2026). The middle school science course landscape: Course offerings, enrollment patterns, and implications for assessment. NWEA white paper. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/the-middle-school-science-course-landscape-course-offerings-enrollment-patterns-and-implications-for-assessment/

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Descriptive analysis of course offerings among 2,199 NWEA MAP Growth Science partner schools, paralleling Horizon's 2012 and 2018 national analyses. The article reports "83% vs. 43%" offering only multidiscipline science and "3% vs. 38%" offering only single-discipline courses.

"the percentage of NWEA schools offering only multidiscipline science courses was nearly double that of the Horizon 2018 sample (83% vs. 43%). This difference emerged primarily through a reduction in the number of schools offering only single-discipline science courses in the NWEA sample (3% vs. 38%"

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type claim
id nwea-schools-predominantly-multidiscipline-offerings
title Most NWEA partner middle schools offer only multidiscipline science courses, with far fewer offering only single-discipline courses than in the 2018 national sample
description Most NWEA partner middle schools offer only multidiscipline science courses, with far fewer offering only single-discipline courses than in the 2018 national sample
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2026
recheck_by 2031
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-08
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sources 1 — naomi-duran-and-susan-kowalski-2026

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