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2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Testing Dates Announced

Thursday, January 22, 2015

The District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) announced that the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) will be administered January 26 through March 6. Sampled students across the District in grades four, eight, and 12 will be assessed on the nation’s largest continuing measure of student achievement. Approximately 12 percent of the District’s student population and 184 campuses will take part in the one-day assessment that will provide a measure of how DC students perform compared to their peers across the country.Two years ago, DC showed higher growth than any jurisdiction in the nation on the fourth and eighth grade reading and mathematics tests.

This year, students will be assessed in mathematics, reading, or science. Students do not need to study for this test, but parents and teachers are asked to encourage students to do their best and get plenty of rest the night prior to the assessment. Also this year, NAEP will begin to transition from paper and pencil (PP) assessments to technology-based assessments (TBA). The program will pilot existing paper-and-pencil content using the latest technology tools for mathematics, reading, and science.  Most of the schools in the district will take the traditional paper and pencil assessment, while a few schools have been asked to pilot the technology-based assessment on tablets provided by NAEP. Results will only be released from paper and pencil assessments. Beginning in 2017, the NAEP mathematicsreading, and writing assessments will be administered to students throughout the nation on NAEP-provided tablets.  

For more information about the assessment or to review resources available for parents and teachers, view OSSE's NAEP resources here