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National Assessment of Educational Progress Test Results 2011. Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Each year the scale scores and the percent of students scoring Proficient or Advanced on tests in reading, mathematics, and other content areas are reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These scores are based on testing samples of students from each state, whose scores then are used to judge the overall quality of education in the United States. In this sense, we treat the United States as though it were a single school district—instead of a country consisting of more than 14,000 separate districts.

Brief #4 Fall 2011

Test Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Each year the scale scores and the percent of students scoring Proficient or Advanced on tests in reading, mathematics, and other content areas are reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These scores are based on testing samples of students from each state, whose scores then are used to judge the overall quality of education in the United States. In this sense, we treat the United States as though it were a single school district–instead of a country consisting of more than 14,000 separate districts.

If you graduated from high school twenty, thirty, or even forty years ago, you probably agree with George Orwell who said that, "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." + NAEP first tested national samples of students beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Currently, scientifically drawn samples of students from each state are tested. As a result, there are both state profiles and national results. Nationally, NAEP scores allow us to compare performance levels over time. Many wrongly believe that national test scores have declined dramatically from earlier years. In fact, the average score in the areas most frequently tested, reading and mathematics, have increased since 1971.1 Average scale scores for 9-, 13-, and 17- year olds on NAEP reading tests, 1971

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