(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Kentucky students will again participate in the state National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2005.
NAEP, a program of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is known as the Nation’s Report Card. It provides information on how elementary and middle school students are performing compared to students nationally and in other states.
In Kentucky, a sample of 4th- and 8th-grade students from 135 public school districts and 287 schools will participate in the 2005 NAEP, which will assess reading, mathematics and science. The testing window is scheduled for January 24 through March 4, 2005. Results from the administration are expected to be available in late summer 2005.
For more than 30 years, NAEP has served as the nation’s only ongoing, nationally representative survey of what American students know and can do. State NAEP assessments were introduced in 1990 to provide states with reliable data concerning the achievement of their students. Prior to that, the national NAEP samples were not designed to support the reporting of state-level results.
Kentucky students have participated in NAEP testing since the early 1990s. The assessment is authorized by Congress, directed by NCES and developed by Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey. Westat of Rockville, Maryland, conducts sample selection and data collection. More information about NAEP, including previous results and sample questions, is available here.
##