Results of the 2011 NAEP writing assessment will be available in the summer of 2012. The computer-based assessment was administered to students throughout the United States in 2011. This is the first time the operational assessment, administered at grades 8 and 12, was delivered via computer.

Explore the tutorials describing this innovative computer-based assessment.

More than 140,000 students at grade 8 and 27,900 students at grade 12 participated in the 2007 writing assessments. Results are now available.

2007 Writing Results

Exploring NAEP Writing

• Take a look at publications about NAEP writing.
• Read Ideas for Planning and Reviewing Your Writing, a handout given to students taking the 2011 writing assessment at grade 8 and grade 12 (about 1160K PDF each).
• Take a look at the NAEP schedule of assessments.

Spotlight on the State Assessment

Do you have a special interest in the state-level writing assessment and results for your particular state? If so, here's the place to begin.

Spotlight on the Trial Urban District Assessment

Explore the results of the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment in writing.

How the NAEP Writing Assessment Works

• Learn what the assessment measures and how it was developed.
• Learn who took the assessment and how it was administered.
• Explore sample questions from the assessment, and see how they were scored.
• Find out what students know and can do by looking at the NAEP writing scale.
• Find out what students should know and be able to do by viewing preliminary NAEP writing achievement levels.
• Find out how to interpret the results of the assessment, including the potential effects of exclusion on assessment results.

Using NAEP Data

• Explore a wealth of NAEP data, in the NAEP Data Explorer.
• Writing 2007 restricted-use data are available for licensed researchers; other years and other NAEP microdata are also available.