The NAEP Arts Achievement LevelsNAEP assessments provide information about what students know and can do in a range of subjects. Additionally, NAEP usually provides information about what students should know and be able to do for different subjects. This information comes from the NAEP achievement levels, which are intended to measure how well students' actual achievement matches the achievement desired of them in different subjects assessed by NAEP. Arts achievement levels were developed as part of the arts framework. However, the arts assessment results were not reported in terms of the NAEP arts achievement levels. To set achievement levels for the results of any given NAEP assessment, the results of the whole assessment must be summarized together. The complex, diverse nature of the assessment tasks for the arts necessitated that different scales be used for different kinds of tasks: that is, students' written responses and responses to multiple-choice questions could not be summarized together with their responses to complex tasks where they created or performed works of art. To view the achievement levels developed for the arts assessment, take a look at the NAEP Arts Education Assessment Framework (468K PDF file: requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
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