Since NAEP is conducted in partnership with states, each state has employed a NAEP State Coordinator to serve as the connection between the state education agency and schools selected for the sample. In general, the NAEP State Coordinator works with the schools, the sampling and data collection contractor, and NCES to ensure the quality of the state’s NAEP results.
Individual schools participating in NAEP designate an in-school staff member to be the school coordinator. The school coordinator collaborates on assessment activities with NAEP professional field staff. School coordinators achieve the following tasks with the help of the field staff and the NAEP State Coordinator:
The NAEP field staff, who are responsible for all assessment day activities, are a national network of educators trained to collect and safeguard NAEP assessment data to guarantee its accuracy and integrity as well as to provide support and reduce the burden for the schools throughout the assessment process. In addition to assisting the school coordinator with his or her assigned tasks, the NAEP State Coordinator and field staff are responsible for the following duties:
With each assessment, NAEP provides training and materials to assessment administrators and supervisors to help guide their work with the schools participating in NAEP. In the following pages, you can view the assessment administration materials from recent years in PDF format. If you need information from the more recent manuals, please send a description of the sections you need using the form for ordering NAEP publications.
You may also be interested in viewing The NAEP Code of Ethics (35K PDF). This Code defines the principles that are the foundation for fair and accurate test administration and data collection.
