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National Assessment for Educational Progress

The National Assessment of Educational Progress conducts national assessments of what American elementary and secondary students know and can do. Also known as The Nation's Report Card, the program collects and analyzes data and reports on the status of and trends in student learning over time in key subjects.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The Assessment, as the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what American students know and can do, has a unique role in measuring student achievement.
  • Visitors to the program's website report high levels of satisfactions with publications, data files, and services of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), of which the National Assessment program is a part. For example, 95 percent were satisfied with the relevance of NCES publications.
  • The 2003 assessment found that the program needed to improve the timeliness of its publications, data products, and services. Since then, the program has significantly improved the time it takes to make public the reading and math results (meeting its target of 6 months in 2005 and 2007) and has begun tracking the time to release of additional first releases of findings as well technical reports.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the timeliness of additional reports, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress technical reports.
  • Conducting an analysis of interstate variation in student exclusion rates to help ensure the comparability of NAEP assessment results.
  • Completing the NAEP evaluation and determining which findings can be used to recommend program improvements.

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