As an educator, you play a critical role in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). If you have participated in a NAEP assessment in the past, we thank you for your support. It is through your participation and interest that NAEP can be an accurate gauge of the progress of the nation's students.

• What do the NAEP assessments measure, and how is the content determined?
• What subjects are assessed by the NAEP program and how are the subjects chosen?
• Is information about the testing procedures available?
• Do the NAEP assessments replace the state assessments?

• After each assessment, the NAEP program releases a representative sample of questions to the public. To learn about them, Explore NAEP Questions. Watch the short video preview that shows you what the NAEP Questions Tool can do, and print out the NAEP Questions Tool Quick Reference Guide (614K PDF) for additional guidance. For detailed instruction, there is a tutorial.
• See what students at each achievement level know and can do as illustrated in the Item Maps tool. New users can print the NAEP Item Maps Quick Reference Guide (1,126K PDF).

• If your school has been selected to participate in NAEP, you may be interested to know that NAEP staff are assigned to each school to ensure that the assessment will run smoothly and take up as little school time as possible. To learn more about NAEP in your school, see Information for Selected Schools.

• View the latest assessment information for arts, civics, economics, geography, mathematics, reading, science, U.S. history, and writing.
• See NAEP State Profiles to find out how your state has performed on NAEP assessments in the past. To see how your state compares with the nation and other states, use the State Comparisons tool. New users of this tool can print a State Comparisons Quick Reference Guide (347K PDF).
• Dig deeper into NAEP data by using the NAEP Data Explorer. New users can print the Data Explorer Quick Reference Guide (961K PDF), and learn more about how to use the tool from the tutorial that covers all main functions in short chapters.
• Find out how frameworks, the blueprints for the assessments, are developed.