NAEP and Political Meaning. By Gerard Robinson. AEIdeas. October 29, 2015. The 2015 reading and math results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released yesterday.

NAEP's proficient standard is beyond the reach of students and it has little to do with how states measure achievement, ... 2011 edition of Education Week as NAEP’s Odd Definition of Proficiency ...

Here’s a look at what the NAEP scores mean — and don’t mean — as explained by Carol Burris, who retired this year as an award-winning principal at a New York high school.

NAEP says little about causes of increases or decreases in scores, let alone about what should be done to improve matters. That doesn’t prevent people from interpreting them in line with their ...

@campbell_brown Neither of our satisfaction is what I’m addressing. Proficient on NAEP is not grade level. You should not equate the two. — Tom Loveless (@tomloveless99) May 17, 2016 ...

The NAEP is an important indicator in education, but it's no model of clarity. Five things that we should keep in mind as we consider NAEP results. ... Proficient doesn’t even mean proficient. Bourque ...

NAEP results are often misinterpreted (which you can read about here); when students score at the “proficient” level on NAEP, many take that to mean they are “proficient” at their grade ...

The results of the 2019 NAEP tests in reading were released at the end of October. In both grade 4 and 8, the average scores went down … very slightly. Politicians, pundits and reporters went ...

Still, the main NAEP tests began only in the 1990s, meaning the long-term trend data is necessary for comparisons further back. With fewer tests, ...

Like a Rorschach test, the NAEP report on math and reading performance provides contours that individuals can interpret according to what they already believed, says a University of Georgia professor.

Most fourth graders (60%) were ranked at the NAEP basic level, meaning they only have “partial mastery of prerequisite ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - Governor Tate Reeves has doted on Mississippi’s students this week after Urban Institute released its 2024 adjusted NAEP scores for 4th and 8th grade. The National ...