National Assessment of Educational Progress.
NAEP
- What it measures
- US student achievement in reading, mathematics, science, writing, civics, US history, economics, geography and technology and engineering literacy at grades 4, 8 and 12, plus long-term-trend assessments at ages 9, 13 and 17.
- Length and format
- Large rotated item pool per subject administered under balanced incomplete block spiralling. multiple-choice, constructed-response and digitally delivered interactive items (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Spanish-language versions for some subjects; otherwise a monolingual US assessment.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- mixed
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- Reference
- National Center for Education Statistics. The Nation's Report Card: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). US Department of Education. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
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