What is the National Assessment of Educational Progress?
Commonly referred to as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only continuing, national measure of the academic achievement of America’s public and private schools. For 40 years student performance has been measured in the following subjects: reading, math, writing, science, and geography. What is the NAEP Arts Assessment? The National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts demonstrates that creativity—the skill in such demand in our fast-paced information age—is learned and can be assessed. The 2008 NAEP Arts Assessment, also known as Nation’s Arts Report Card, is the fifth NAEP assessment in the arts. The next NAEP arts assessment is scheduled to take place in 2016. The assessment is based on the 1996 NAEP Arts Education Assessment Framework, which was the result of a national consensus effort under the auspices of the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB). The framework is a broadly accepted outline of what hundreds of a
