Criteria

Each data query must include at least one selection from five criteria choices: subject, grade or age, measure(s), year(s), and jurisdiction(s). A query can include only one subject and grade or age at a time. It must include at least one, and can include more than one, type of measure, year, and jurisdiction. Descriptions of these criteria follow.

1. Subject:

• • for main NAEP: civics, economics, geography, mathematics, music, reading, science, U.S. history, visual arts, or writing;

  • for Long-Term Trend (LTT): mathematics or reading;

  • for High School Transcript Study (HSTS): whichever subjects were selected from those assessed in the year of the survey (i.e., for 2005, mathematics and science only); and

  • for National Indian Educational Study (NIES), mathematics and reading.

2. Grade or age:

   • for main NAEP: grade 4, 8, or 12;

   • for LTT: age 9, 13, or 17;

   • for HSTS: grade 12 only; and

   • for NIES, grade 4 or 12 only.

3. Measure(s):

   • a composite scale, or subscales where available.

4. Assessment Year(s):

• • defined as the year in which a given subject was assessed.

5. Jurisdiction(s):   

1. • for data from Main NAEP, LTT, and HSTS:

   • • National,

     • Public and private schools, and

     • Regions of the country.

Note: NIES uses different school variables and different regions.

• • for data from Main NAEP only:

  • • Public schools only,

    • States and equivalent assessment jurisdictions (in mathematics, reading, science, and writing only), and

    • Selected urban districts (Trial Urban District Assessment, in the four subjects for states).

Note: Main NAEP state assessments are conducted in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and schools operated by the Department of Defense (DoDEA). Assessments have also been conducted in some years in Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa. Not all jurisdictions participate in all assessments.

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