NAEP Research and Development Program

Bringing innovation to large-scale assessment and providing training opportunities to expand the community of statisticians, psychometricians, and education researchers who work with NAEP data.

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The Summer 2024 NAEP Data Training Workshop - Applications Open

04-12-2024

Applications are now open for the summer 2024 NAEP Data Training Workshop! This workshop is for quantitative researchers with strong statistical skills who are interested in conducting data analyses using NAEP data. For the first time, participants in this year's training will get an introduction to COVID data collections. Learn more here!

EdSurvey e-book now available!

02-14-2022

Analyzing NCES Data Using EdSurvey: A User's Guide is now available for input from the research community online here.  Check it out and give the team your feedback.

Opportunities

Explore the opportunities provided through the NAEP Research and Development Program.

Link to NAEP Data Training

NAEP Data Training

Link to Internship Program

Internship Program

Link to Cooperative Agreements

Cooperative Agreements

Featured Work

Explore featured work conducted under the NAEP Research and Development Program.

EdSurvey Link

EdSurvey

Link to Process Data

Process Data

Link to interactive NCES Results Display (iNRD)

iNRD

About

NAEP is mandated by Congress to provide a continuing evaluation of educational conditions in the United States through a fair and accurate measurement of educational achievement in reading, mathematics, and other content areas and is administered by the Assessment Division within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The NAEP Research and Development (NAEP R&D) Team conducts studies that contribute to new methodologies for analyzing and operationalizing large -scale assessments. In addition, NAEP R&D promotes the access to and dissemination of this line of research through trainings, internships and a cooperative agreement program. All of these efforts support NAEP in maintaining its reputation as the “gold standard of student assessment".

This site provides information to explore some of the work being developed and opportunities within the NAEP Research and Development (R&D) Program.