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The National Assessment of Educational Progress

The National Assessment of Educational Progress. What is NAEP? (pronounced "Nape"). National Assessment of Educational Progress Nation’s Report Card Established by Congress in 1969 to answer questions about student academic performance

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The National Assessment of Educational Progress

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  1. The National Assessment of Educational Progress

  2. What is NAEP? (pronounced "Nape") • National Assessment of Educational Progress • Nation’s Report Card • Established by Congress in 1969 to answer questions about student academic performance • The Nation’s ONLY monitor of what students know and can do • National, regional and state-level results • Administered annually (late January- early March)

  3. How are schools selected? • Sample of schools from the state • Every school has a chance of being selected • Prior participation in NAEP unrelated to sampling • “Clean slate” for every administration

  4. How are students selected? • Random sample of students from grade • Each student has same probability of selection • Selection unrelated to any demographic characteristic • Sample size might be the entire grade • Student randomly assigned to a subject area • Student will take only one subject area assessment • Reading, Mathematics, Science • Reading, Mathematics, Science (hands-on task, ICT), Civics, Geography, U.S. History

  5. What are students asked to do? • Every student takes two 25-minute cognitive item “blocks” • Students respond to a variety of background questions related to student achievement • Non-cognitive data on students, their family background, teachers, and schools • 90 minute testing session

  6. Background Questions • An example from NAEP Reading 2007 • Question: How often do you read for fun on your own time? • Never or hardly ever • Once or twice a month • Once or twice a week • Almost every day

  7. Assessing Students with Disabilities (SD) and English Language Learners (ELL) • NAEP allows for test accommodations in order to increase access to the assessment for our students with disabilities and ELLs. • NAEP provides SD and ELL questionnaires for these student groups to ensure students receive appropriate accommodations on assessment day.

  8. Points to Keep in Mind • NAEP is administered on a single day • Every student selected is tested in one subject only • For most students, one 90-minute test session with 50 minutes allotted for test items (i.e., cognitive items). • Remaining time used for background questions • Testing stakes • No district ( unless a TUDA) , school, or student-level results reported. • Results reported overall and by subgroup for states. • Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) districts: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego

  9. Houston ISD TUDA Participation for grades 4 and 8

  10. Houston ISD TUDA Participation for grades 4 and 8

  11. Houston ISD TUDA Participation for grades 4 and 8

  12. NAEP Development Timeline • Year 1: Creation of a Framework and Achievement Levels Descriptors (ALDs) • Year 2: Item Development • Year 3: Item Review • Year 4: Administration, Use of the ALDs to determine Cut Scores, Identification of exemplar items • Year 5: Reporting Results

  13. Sample Question Booklets If individuals have questions or concerns about the NAEP assessment, please share the Sample Questions Booklet.

  14. NAEP Website http://nationsreportcard.gov/

  15. NAEP Resources (NCES) • The NAEP Questions Tool enables users to explore more than 2000 released questions, student responses, and question-level data across multiple content areas. • NAEP Item Maps help to illustrate what students know and can do in NAEP subject areas by positioning descriptions of individual assessment items along the NAEP scale at each grade level. NAEP Item Maps help answer the question, “What does it mean for students to be at Basic, Proficient, or Advanced, in terms of what they know and can do?”

  16. NAEP Resources (NCES) • The NAEP Data Explorer (NDE) is a web-based application for accessing NAEP data. The NDE accesses data gathered from students, teachers, and schools since 1990 and allows users to create custom statistical tables and graphics. • The NAEP State Comparisons Tool lists states and jurisdictions according to average scale scores of students overall and average scale scores of selected student subgroups for a specific year. The tool also allows ordering of states and jurisdictions by differences between groups of students and/or years (changes), and by changes in differences.

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