Information for Selected Schools

If your school is participating in NAEP, the following sections will provide helpful information.

• Does Your School Participate in NAEP?
• School Selection and Participation
• NAEP in Your School
• Technology and Engineering Literacy Assessment in Your School
• About NAEP Assessments
• How Participating Schools Can Contact NAEP

Does Your School Participate in NAEP?

These short videos, designed for school staff and students, feature real students sharing their thoughts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and how teachers and students can prepare to participate and excel in the program.

    
Introducing NAEP to Teachers            Introducing NAEP to Students

School Selection and Participation

The accurate and representative results produced by the NAEP assessments depend upon the enthusiastic participation of selected districts, schools, and classrooms.

• Learn how your school's participation in NAEP informs national and state education policies and practices.
• Private schools play a crucial role in national results; discover how important private schools are, and see results alongside those of public schools.
• Find out how schools and students are selected for the assessment.
• To get an idea of the impact that your school's participation will have, explore recent NAEP reports.

NAEP in Your School

NAEP works to ensure that participating in the assessment causes as little disruption as possible for teachers and students. NAEP provides a comprehensive administration system and a full complement of informational material about the assessment and its goals. On January 28 through March 8, 2013, NAEP is conducting assessments in mathematics and reading at grades 4, 8, and 12. Nationally, approximately 350,000 students will be assessed in fourth-grade, 360,000 in eighth-grade, and 110,000 in twelfth grade. Students will spend approximately 90 minutes completing the assessment. Explore this NAEP In Your School fact sheet to find out how NAEP mathematics and reading will work in your school  (239 KB).

At grade 8, there will be a pilot of the technology and engineering literacy (TEL) assessment. For the TEL pilot, nationally approximately 15,000 students at grade 8 will be assessed. Thirty students at each school will be selected to participate. The pilot assessment will be administered in two sequential sessions of 15 students each. Students will spend approximately 120 minutes the completing the assessment. Click here for more information and resources for the TEL assessment, including an overview video, tutorial, and framework. Download this Download this NAEP In Your School fact sheet to learn more about the Grade 8 TEL Pilot  (228 KB).

There will also be a few special studies involving small numbers of schools.

Use the following resources to find out more about NAEP:

• Private school information including quick access to results.
• View fact sheets developed to address questions about NAEP 2013 for Districts  (93 KB) and for Principals  (191 KB) 
• Understand the importance of the teacher's role  (1.2 MB) in NAEP assessments.
• An Introduction to NAEP  (1.6 MB) explains what participation in the NAEP assessment will mean for you and your students. For a quicker view, see the brochure An Overview of NAEP  (255 KB), which is also available in Spanish: Visión General de NAEP  (247 KB).
• What Every Parent Should Know About NAEP  (880 KB) provides an informative overview of the assessment for parents and their children.
• Learn how the NAEP administration process ensures that the assessment will not overburden participating teachers or schools.
• If your school is participating in PISA, take a look at the schedule for NAEP and other NCES assessment activities.

About NAEP Assessments

The booklets below illustrate how context is provided for the assessment data.

• Sample Questions Booklets will familiarize students and their parents with the assessment structure, types of subject-area questions asked, and questions about students' education-related experiences. They are provided to all participating schools and parents can see what types of questions NAEP asks in the section for parents (also for Spanish-speaking parents) on this website.
• To learn more about the information NAEP is required to collect for the purposes of federal educational research, take a look at the questionnaires for principals, teachers, and students.

Learn more about NAEP in general and find links to important features of the NAEP websites on the NAEP Overview page, and check for upcoming and recent NAEP activities.

How Participating Schools Contact NAEP

You can find answers to any additional questions you may have about scheduling, materials, or any other aspects of the assessment in several ways: 

• Consult your personalized MySchool website on MyNAEP.
• Contact the NAEP Help Desk by e-mail.
• Call 800-283-6237 (800-283-NAEP) Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.

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