Information for Selected Schools

If your school is participating in NAEP, the following links will direct you to helpful information. If you still have questions, you can get answers through MySchool website, by e-mail, or by telephone.

School Selection and Participation

The accurate and representative results produced by the NAEP assessments depend upon the enthusiastic participation of selected districts, schools, and classrooms.

• Learn how your school's participation in NAEP informs national and state education policies and practices.
• Discover the important role that nonpublic (private) schools have to play, and see private school results alongside those of public schools.
• Find out how schools and students are selected for the assessment.
• To get an idea of the impact that your school's participation will have, explore recent NAEP reports.

NAEP in Your School

NAEP works to ensure that participating in the assessment entails as little difficulty for individual participants as possible by using a comprehensive administration system and providing a full complement of informational material about the assessment and its goals.

• View fact sheets developed to address questions about NAEP for educators at all levels. 
  • For principals (698K PDF) 
  • For elementary and middle school teachers (847K PDF)
  • For high school teachers (728K PDF)
• Watch 5-minute videos for teachers of fourth- and eighth-graders and twelfth-graders that offer helpful information about NAEP for educators and parents alike.
• Students do not need any special preparation for NAEP, other than understanding the importance of their participation. Please share this 3-minute video for students with your class.
• Learn how the NAEP administration process ensures that the assessment will not overburden participating teachers or schools.
• An Introduction to NAEP (1123K PDF) provides a thorough introduction to the NAEP program and explains what participation in the NAEP assessment will mean for you and your students. 

About NAEP Assessments

The links below will demonstrate how both the NAEP assessment itself and the results it produces can play a role in the classroom.

• Sample Questions Booklets will familiarize students and their parents with the assessment structure, types of subject-area questions asked, student background questions, and the NAEP Questions Tool. 
• To learn more about the information NAEP is required to collect for the purposes of federal educational research, take a look at the background questionnaires for principals, teachers, and students.

How Participating Schools Contact NAEP

You can find answers to any additional questions you may have about scheduling, materials, or any other aspects of the assessment in several ways: 

• Consult your personalized MySchool website on MyNAEP.
• Contact the NAEP Help Desk by e-mail.
• Call 800-283-6237 (800-283-NAEP) Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.
• Check the status of upcoming and recent NAEP activities.

Learn more about NAEP in general and find links to important features of the NAEP websites on the NAEP Overview page.

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Last updated 05 September 2008 (EP)