About NAEP

NAEP: The 2017 Math Tests

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, known informally as the "Nation's Report Card") is administered to a sample of students across the United States. It has been administered across many years.

In 2017, the NAEP math test was administered for the first time on tablet computers to students in Grades 4 and 8. The computer administration allowed for the collection of process data - records of every action that a student took, such as entering a number, returning to an earlier item, etc.

The computer administration also allowed students to use accessibility features, including:

Text-to-speech - students could click on boxes of text and hear the text read to them
Scratchpad - students were presented with digital scratch paper on which they could write, draw, work out a math problem, etc.
Zoom - students could enlarge the text ("zoom in") and figures in an item

Students took 2 blocks of 15 math items each, drawn from a larger pool of items. Process data from one NAEP 2017 math block (of 15 items) has been made available for 8th graders. More recently, process data from 13 items of a 14-item block taken by 4th graders has been made available.

Link to more information:

Publicly disclosed NAEP items can be found here.