The National Center for Educational Statistics conducts the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, which provides feedback of student assessment throughout the United States. The NAEP assesses students in various subject areas such as mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history. The test used for the given subject area is uniform throughout the country and changed only ever so slightly to ensure that the results show academic progress successfully.
The NAEP link also informs that state assessments began in the 1990’s and only test in four major subject areas: mathematics, reading, writing, and science for fourth and eighth graders in public schools only (both public and private schools are assessed nationally). The results of state assessments can be viewed using the “State Profiles tool” located at this website.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
The NAEP appears to be a great website for educators of all sorts. I had no idea that the state assessments began in the 1990's and that they test the four major subject areas for only fourth and eighth graders at the public school level. Terrific slide show as well!
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