NAEP Program Overview

This short video shares information about NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress assessment). NAEP is better known as "Nation's Report Card” and is the only national perspective on American education. NAEP is a congressionally mandated project overseen by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to monitor knowledge, skill, and performance of the nation's children and youth over time. NAEP measures and reports on a regular basis what America's students know and can do in core subjects like reading, mathematics, writing, and science. Since 1969, NAEP has measured the educational progress of students in America. It has long been considered as the ‘gold standard’ of assessment. It is a ‘common yardstick’ measuring what students know and can do in various subjects. NAEP monitors achievement in a non-biased, independent fashion and provides a long term trend of how our students are performing.