National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
What is NAEP?
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), first administered in 1969, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing. Standard administration practices are implemented to provide a common measure of student achievement. Other subjects such as the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history are assessed periodically.
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NIES
American Indian and Alaska Native students selected to participate in the NAEP 2011 reading and mathematics assessment at grades 4 and 8, will also participate in the National Indian Education Study (NIES) by completing a short survey. NIES describes the condition of education for American Indian and Alaska Native students in the United States.
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More NAEP Information
NAEP Results Reports
Resources & Tools
Contact Paula Hutton
Maine State NAEP Coordinator
e-mail paula.hutton@maine.gov
ph 207-624-6636
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News and Information
Ensuring NAEP Integrity and Test Security (10/31/11)
NAEP employs multiple security procedures in all NAEP assessments to protect the integrity of the results across the nation. The Integrity of NAEP Fact Sheet identifies some questions regarding possible threats to assessment security and explains how NAEP implements a set of quality control procedures in areas such as sampling and test administration to ensure a high level of test security.
Click here to download or view the fact sheet. (PDF)
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Data Tools
NAEP News for September 2010 - PDF
Overview of NAEP Final May 2009 - PDF
Measure Up Newsletters
Winter 2011-12
Fall 2011
Winter 2009-2010
A Word from Paula Hutton, Maine Coordinator of NAEP
Greetings!
Only 34 schools have been selected to participate in NAEP 2000-2012 which is a national year for NAEP. In national NAEP years, NAEP pilots new assessments and does Long Term Trend assessments with students who are 9, 13 or 17 years old. These trends go back over twenty years! In addition, at grade 12, NAEP is giving an economics assessment as well as piloting new questions in reading and mathematics. Selected grade 4 classes will participate in a computer-based writing assessment which is being piloted. Selected schools will participate in NAEP assessments on dates scheduled throughout the school year. Superintendents were notified last May and school principals were notified last June, if they were selected for the NAEP sample in 2011-2012.
NAEP assessment administration packets were mailed to participating school principals on September 1, 2011. In October 2011, NCES (National Center for Educational Statistics) will release the results from the 2011 NAEP Reading and Mathematics assessments at grades 4 and 8. State level results will also be reported. FYI-The Maine NAEP results appearing on district report cards right now are from 2009. The 2011 results will be published on the Maine state report card in the next school year, 2012-2013.
Keep your ears to the ground for the release of an NCES report on “state exclusion rates,” which will compare the rates from state to state. States with high exclusion rates will likely get a lot of press across the nation.
If you are one of the 34 participating schools in NAEP 2011-2012, thank you so much for your public service! Your school’s participation contributes to what policy makers at the national level need to know about student achievement across our nation.
Paula Hutton, Maine NAEP Coordinator
12/20/11
What is NAEP? (cont.)
Teachers, principals, parents, policymakers, and researchers all use NAEP results to assess progress and develop ways to improve education in the United States. The results of NAEP are released as The Nation’s Report Card. The report cards provide national, state, and district-level results for select urban districts, results for different demographic groups, results on scale scores and achievement levels, and sample questions.
NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
In Brief:
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an essential measurement of student achievement in the United States.
- NAEP, first administered in 1969, is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation's students know and can do in core subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing.
- NAEP is a congressionally authorized project of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
- The schools and students participating in NAEP represent other schools and students across the country.
- NAEP is considered the gold standard of assessments because of its high technical quality. From developing frameworks and questions to the reporting of results, NAEP represents the best thinking of assessment and content specialists, state education staff, and teachers from around the nation.
- NAEP monitors academic progress over time and reports on student achievement nationally.
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