More About NAEP U.S. HistoryThe NAEP U.S. history assessment presents a broad view of what America's students know in U.S. history. The assessment was developed by a committee of historians and measurement experts to capture the goals of the U.S. history framework. The framework, which describes the goals of the assessment and what kind of exercises it ought to feature, was created by the National Assessment Governing Board through a comprehensive national process involving historians, educators, administrators and laypeople. At grades 4, 8, and 12, the assessment consisted of the following types of questions:
Students spent more than half the assessment time responding to constructed-response questions. By grade, the percentage of assessment time spent on constructed-response questions was 57 percent at grade 4, 56 percent at grade 8, and 61 percent at grade 12. NAEP also gives background questionnaires to teachers, students, and schools that are part of the NAEP sample. Responses to these questionnaires give NAEP information about school policies affecting U.S. history instruction, as well as information about schools' educational resources. Learn more about NAEP, the nation's only assessment of what students know and can do in various subject areas. View the NAEP 2006 U.S. history Report Card.
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