What is NAEP?
Who is assessed by NAEP?
What is sampling and why does NAEP use it?
What about my child's privacy?
History and background
What is NAEP?
NAEP is a survey designed to produce national and state level results; it is NOT a testing program for individual students or schools
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Who is assessed by NAEP?
| Type of assessment |
Type of sample |
| National assessment |
Students from grades 4, 8 and 12 in public and non-public schools |
| State assessment |
Students from grades 4 and 8 |
| Long-term trend assessment |
Students at ages 9, 13 and 17 |
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What is sampling and why does NAEP use it?
In matrix sampling, different portions from the entire pool of assessment questions are printed in separate booklets and administered to different but equivalent samples of students.
Matrix sampling allows NAEP to assess the entire subject area within a reasonable amount of time.
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What about my child's privacy?
NAEP only collects information related to academic achievement and no data is reported at the district, school, or student level except in the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) Districts.
NAEP guarantees the privacy of individual students, their families, and their schools.
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History and background
Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, history, geography, and other subject areas. NAEP is also known as The Nation’s Report Card.
NAEP is the only nationally representative, continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in various subject areas.
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