More About NAEP Mathematics

The NAEP mathematics assessment presents a broad view of what America's students know and can do in mathematics. The assessment was developed and reviewed by mathematics educators and curriculum and assessment experts, to capture the goals of the mathematics framework. The framework, which describes the goals of the assessment and what kinds of exercises it ought to feature, was created by the National Assessment Governing Board through a comprehensive national process involving teachers, administrators, and state education officials. The Mathematics Development Committee was instrumental in the development of the assessment.

The assessment consisted of the following types of questions:

• multiple-choice questions designed to assess students' mathematical knowledge and skills;
• constructed-response questions, including short constructed-response questions that required students to provide answers to computation problems or to describe solutions in one or two sentences, and extended constructed-response questions that required students to provide longer responses when answering the questions.

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 mathematics 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 2007 Mathematics Report Card.

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Last updated 12 September 2007 (RF)