Find out more information about the main
NAEP reading assessment.
The results of student performance on
the NAEP reading assessment are presented in two ways: as average scores on the NAEP reading scale and as the percentages of students attaining NAEP reading achievement levels.
The content of
the NAEP reading assessment is determined by a framework developed with the help of researchers, policymakers, and the interested public as well as experts in reading and its measurement.
The NAEP reading assessment scale is a composite combining separately estimated scales for each type of reading (literary and informational) specified by the reading framework.
The state NAEP mathematics assessment was first administered in 1990, at grade 8 only, followed by the first state
NAEP reading assessment in 1992, at grade 4 only.
Item maps illustrate the knowledge and skills demonstrated by students performing at different scale points on
the NAEP reading assessment.
Percent of 8th graders who scored the highest levels on
the NAEP reading assessment in 2007: 42 % of Caucasian students 15 % of Black students 19 % of Hispanic students
NAEP reading assessments were administered in Virginia during January and February 2009.
The nation's report card: Vocabulary results from the 2009 and 2011
NAEP reading assessments.
And it's not just a statistical blip — the previous four
NAEP reading assessments dating back to 2005 revealed the same finding.
In the U.S., these gaps are particularly wide in Algebra I and English I. Nationally, 33 percent of eighth - grade students performed at or above the Proficient level on 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessments; 34 percent performed at or above the same level on 2015
NAEP reading assessments.
Beginning in 2003, all of the states and jurisdictions have participated in the grade 4 and 8
NAEP reading assessments.
Not exact matches
Eight
assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national
reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year
reading performance: the Main
NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the
NAEP Long Term Trend (
NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International
Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year
Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international
assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student
Assessment (PISA), an international
assessment given to 15 - year - olds.
[i] Girls have outscored boys on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP)
reading assessments since the first
NAEP was administered in 1971.
Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP)
reading and math
assessments.
Using more recent data, a report by the Center on Education Policy concludes that
reading and math achievement as measured by state
assessments has increased in most states since 2002 and that there have been smaller but similar patterns in
NAEP scores.
Thus, I also assume that the state made no meaningful gains in 4th - grade
reading between 1998 and 2000 that would have shown up on
NAEP, which squares with the scores on the state's own
reading assessment.
Every state, for both
reading and math (with the exception of Massachusetts for math), deems more students «proficient» on its own
assessments than
NAEP does.
«Positive test results, on both state
assessments and the
NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving
reading and math scores.»
After much analysis and deliberation, the board settled on cut scores on
NAEP's twelfth - grade
assessments that indicated that students were truly prepared — 163 for math (on a three - hundred - point scale) and 302 for
reading (on a five - hundred - point point scale).
And positive test results, on both state
assessments and the
NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving
reading and math scores.
The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state
assessments in
reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.
The studies range from large - scale
assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [
NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National
Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).
Nonetheless, more than half of those decreasing states were among the handful of states to show progress in 4th grade
reading on the last round of
NAEP assessments.
With this year's IDEA determinations, the Department used multiple outcome measures that include students with disabilities» participation in state
assessments, proficiency gaps between students with disabilities and all students, as well as performance in
reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP) to produce a more comprehensive and thorough picture of the performance of children with disabilities in each state.
The 2017
NAEP eight - grade
reading assessment shows that while 33 percent of White students in the Milwaukee public schools can
read at grade level (proficient or above), the school system teaches less than one - fifth of that percentage, six percent, of the Black students in its care to
read proficiently at the crucial grade 8 level.
Because the
assessments aren't linked to any local or regional set of learning standards,
NAEP can be used as a barometer to compare results on state tests, especially when it comes to
reading and mathematics.
With more than 40 states adopting common math and
reading standards, fresh questions arise over whether the
NAEP assessment should be less independent.
The 2009
reading framework of the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP) requires a high and increasing proportion of informational text on its
assessment as students advance through the grades.
When the
NAEP benchmark for proficiency is applied to the results of these international
assessments in
reading (Grade 4) and math and science (Grade 8), it's the rare nation — even among advanced economies — in which 50 percent or more of students would reach this target.
A content comparison of the
NAEP and PIRLS fourth - grade
reading assessments.
National reports such as A Nation at Risk noted the failure of schools to provide the nation with a more literate populace as evidenced by allegedly declining verbal SAT scores and less than encouraging results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP)
reading assessments.
Although
NAEP continued to use direct writing
assessment as it had done in the past, it began to include some open - ended
reading items to address the new definition of
reading and recommendations for new forms of
reading assessment.
1 Binkley and Kelly of the
assessment division of the National Center for Education Statistics applied two separate readability formulas to the 2002
NAEP 4th grade
reading assessment.
So, when U.S. citizens
read that «only one - third» or «less than half» of the students in their local schools are proficient in mathematics, science, or
reading (or other subjects), they can rest assured that the same judgments could be applied to national education systems throughout the world if students in those nations participated in
NAEP or Common Core - related
assessments.
The principle international
assessments that can be reliably linked to
NAEP are those that test
reading in grade 4 (PIRLS) and mathematics and science in grade 8 (TIMSS).2 The linking that Emre Gönülates and I did in our research «maps»
NAEP scores to comparable scores on TIMSS and PIRLS and to other
assessments, such as those de-veloped by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.
Not one of the nations participating in these
assessments can demonstrate that a majority of its 4th graders can clear the equivalent of the
NAEP proficiency bar in
reading in 2011.
NAEP's 2012 long - term trend
assessment shows that students in the two younger tested groups — 9 - and 13 - year - olds — scored significantly higher in
reading and math than these age groups did forty years ago in the early 1970s.
URBAN
NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek:
NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in
reading, math on key national
assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test
After implementing higher standards and improved testing,
NAEP found Tennessee made the largest gains in the country for
reading and math
assessments.
«In 2011 Alabama moved from near last to 25th in the nation in overall grades and scores [Education Week
assessment]... 12th in the nation for standards,
assessments and accountability... data from the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP) showed a historic gain of eight points in fourth grade
Reading for Alabama public school students — the... highest gain ever in
NAEP recorded history.
This report highlights growth in U.S. Latino students»
reading scores over the last decade, using scores from the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP)
reading assessment to compare progress across states and major cities, and for some major urban school districts.
On the long - term trend
assessment,
NAEP scores for 17 - year olds increased in both
reading and math between 1971 and 2012.
So I thought I would take the most recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), called «Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto
NAEP Scales: Results from the 2013
NAEP Reading and Mathematics
Assessments,» and released July 9, 2015, and convert it into something both my mother and my daughter can understand: grade levels, as in the difference between sixth and seventh grade.
Congress established
NAEP in 1969, and while the exam is voluntary, all states that receive Title I funds must participate in the
reading and mathematics
assessments in fourth and eighth grade.
Similarly, school districts that receive Title I funds and are selected for the
NAEP sample are also required to participate in
NAEP reading and mathematics
assessments at fourth and eighth grades.
NAEP assessments are administered nationally to students at grades 4 and 8 in
reading, math, writing, and science.
However, federal law also requires all states that receive Title I funds to participate in
NAEP reading and mathematics
assessments at fourth and eighth grades.
Read technical information about the differences in the sample selection for state and national
assessments in
NAEP Assessment Sample Design.
Sponsored by the Department of Education,
NAEP assessments have been conducted periodically in
reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and other subjects, beginning in 1969.