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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a survey of educational achievement of American students. Since 1969, NAEP has been assessing what American students know and can do in a variety of curriculum areas, including mathematics. From its inception, NAEP has used samples of 9-year-old, 13-year-old, and 17-year-old students selected according to a stratified random sampling design. In 1983, NAEP expanded the national samples to include grade-level results, with the most recent results in grades 4, 8, and 12. In 1988, Congress added a new dimension to NAEP by authorizing on a trial basis voluntary participation in state-level assessments. To date there have been seven NAEP mathematics assessments administered at the national level. These took place in the school years ending in 1973, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1992, and 1996, with state-level mathematics assessments given at grade 8 in 1990 and grades 4 and 8 in 1992 and 1996. (Condensed from Results from the Sixth Mathematics Assessment of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Chapter 1, "Learning about NAEP", by Patricia Ann Kenney.) |
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