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National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)

LC control no.n 79099212
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingNational Assessment of Educational Progress (Project)
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Variant(s)NAEP
Education Commission of the States. National Assessment of Educational Progress
Educational Testing Service. National Assessment of Educational Progress
National Center for Education Statistics. National Assessment of Educational Progress
EvaluacioĢn Nacional del Progreso Educativo
Center for the Assessment of Educational Progress (Educational Testing Service). National Assessment of Educational Progress
See alsoPredecessor: Committee on Assessing the Progress of Education
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Biography/History noteThe Exploratory Committee on Assessing the Progress of Education was established in 1964. The name was changed in 1968 to Committee on Assessing the Progress of Education, and in 1970 to National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Beginning date1969
Associated countryUnited States
Field of activityEducational evaluation
Found inIts Objectives, 1969-
Math objectices, 1985-86 assessment, 1986?: t.p. (National Assessment of Educational Progress; Princeton, N.J.) t.p. verso (funded by U.S. Dept. of Education under a grant to Educational Testing Service; an education research project mandated by Congress) p. 5 (est'd in 1969)
Phone call to Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., Mar. 31, 1994 (National Assessment of Educational Progress is subord. to Center for the Assessment of Educational Progress)
Mathematics framework for the 1996 National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1995?: p. 2 of cover (The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a congressionally mandated project of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics)
Visión general de NAEP, 2014: cover (Evaluatión Nacional del Progresso Educativo)
Overview of NAEP, 2019: page 2 of pdf (often called The Nation's Report Card, NAEP is the largest representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and private schools in the United States know and are able to do in various subjects ... since 1969, has been a common measure of student achievement across the country)
Associated languageeng