Visit the Forward Exam Calendar webpage for dates of 2025-26 resource availability.
Data and Reporting
Forward test data and reporting resources are available on the Forward Exam Data and Results webpage.
Student Preparation
- Forward Exam Practice Test
- Student Tutorials - If you are still seeing the old Tutorials, clear your cookies/cache.
Technical Documentation
The technical documentation in this section is designed to provide an overview of the steps taken to develop and validate the Wisconsin Forward Exam. The Standard Setting Report provide an overview of the steps taken to establish the cut scores for the examination. Standard setting studies are typically only done when a major revision or restructuring of the examination is completed. The technical manual provides an analysis of the entire examination program and the work that was completed during the previous year. Technical manuals are written on a yearly basis and incorporate the test development decisions that have been implemented over the course of the year.
- Wisconsin Forward Exam Third-Party Independent Alignment Study 2025
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2025 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2024 ELA and Mathematics Standard Setting Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2024 Technical Report
The resources below are archived content and kept only for reference, research, or recordkeeping.
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2022 Social Studies Standard Setting Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2022 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2021 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2020 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2019 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2019 Science Standard Setting Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2018 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam Third-Party Independent Alignment Study 2017
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2017 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Forward Exam 2016 Technical Report
- Wisconsin Standard Setting Technical Report 2016