2005 Trial Urban District Assessment in MathematicsThe Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA), a special project in NAEP, began assessing performance in selected large urban districts in 2002 with reading and writing assessments, and continued in 2003 and 2005 with reading and mathematics. Ten large urban school districts participated in 2005, with Austin participating for the first time. Results for the District of Columbia, regularly included in state-level NAEP, are also reported, making 11 districts in all. The 2005 NAEP mathematics results for the participating districts are available, as well as comparisons to public school students' performance in the nation and in large central cities, and to results for the assessment in 2003, where applicable. Urban district results are compared with results for public school students in large central cities and the nation. Results from the TUDA are based on comparisons between students in urban districts and large central city schools because these schools represent a peer group and are an appropriate comparison. See a summary of the district-level results for the 2005 TUDA in mathematics. Who was assessed?In 2005, ten urban school districts participated in the TUDA in reading at grades 4 and 8: Atlanta City School District, Austin Independent School District, Boston School District, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, City of Chicago School District 299, Cleveland Municipal School District, Houston Independent School District, Los Angeles Unified School District, New York City Public Schools, and San Diego Unified School District. Student samples in these 10 districts were enlarged beyond usual NAEP samples so that reliable district-level data could be produced. Results for District of Columbia public school students, normally included along with NAEP's state assessment results, are also reported. The results for these districts are for public school students only. Students in the TUDA samples are also included in "higher-level" samples. For example, data from students tested in the Los Angeles sample were used to report results for Los Angeles, and also contributed to the California and the national samples. More information about TUDAFind out what was assessed. Explore the sample size, target population, and number of students who participated in the mathematics TUDA. View the percentage of students in urban districts identified, excluded, and assessed in mathematics. Find out how to interpret NAEP mathematics results. Read about the TUDA in reading.
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