AdvancED | Measured Progress awarded 4-year science contract with New MexicoMeasured Progress was recently awarded the contract to work with the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) to create and implement their new statewide science assessment, the New Mexico Assessment of Science Readiness (NM-ASR). The new assessment will be fully aligned with the New Mexico STEM Ready! Science Standards, the academic content standards that the state adopted in July 2018. Field testing of the new assessment for grades 5, 8, and 11 will begin in spring 2019, with operational administration beginning the following spring.