Results of the NAEP 2008 long-term trend assessment in reading and mathematics will be released in the spring of 2009. The assessment was administered to students throughout the nation from January to March 2008.

The last long-term trend assessment to be administered by NAEP was in 2004. The assessment was given to approximately 75,000 students at ages 9, 13, and 17 in public and nonpublic schools throughout the nation.     

Exploring Results View the results of the 2004 long-term trend assessment. Learn about the differences between the long-term trend assessment and the main NAEP assessment.

• Read the results from the 1999 long-term trend assessment in NAEP 1999 Trends in Academic Progress: Three Decades of Student Performance.
• Read the NAEP 1999 Long-Term Trend Technical Analysis Report: Three Decades of Student Performance.
• Explore the 1999 NAEP long-term trend assessment in science.
• Take a look at the NAEP schedule of assessments.

• Learn what the long-term trend assessment measures in reading and mathematics.
• Learn how the long-term trend assessment was developed.
• Learn who took the assessment and how it was administered.
• Explore sample questions from the assessments, and see how they were scored.
• Find out what students know and can do by reading about the NAEP long-term trend scales.
• Find out what students should know and be able to do by viewing NAEP long-term trend performance levels.

• Explore long-term trend data in the NAEP Data Explorer.