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In October 2024, the NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) panel published An Exploration of Opportunity to Learn and Implications for NAEP, a white paper co-authored by Sheila W. Valencia, James W. Pellegrino, and Richard P. Durán. The white paper explores the relationship between opportunities to learn and the interpretation of NAEP results as well as how the concept and indicators of opportunities to learn could be expanded upon to include more recent thinking around social contexts for learning in the classroom.

This holiday season, our NAEP R&D community has the chance to reflect on the many moments we've shared throughout the year. From the opportunities to share new research at conferences to the joy of meeting and connecting with new colleagues through our NAEP Doctoral Student Internship Program and NAEP Data Training Workshop, we are reminded of the commitment to education and evidence that define us.

This week, we’re able to share a new working paper, Do Survey Questions Have a Mood? Linking Sentiment to Student Test-Taking Behaviors, from NAEP researchers and co-authors Soo Lee, Ruhan Circi, and Adam Hearn. The working paper explores how test-taking behaviors are impacted by the sentiment of assessment questions, as well as how AI-powered sentiment analysis can help to analyze survey item responses such as those collected by NAEP survey questionnaires. The full text of the working paper is included below; subscribe to the NAEP R&D mailing list to stay up to date as this research develops and to access more opportunities to learn about NAEP data analysis.

The National Council for Measurement in Education’s (NCME) Graduate Student Issues Committee (GSIC) and Educators of Measurement (EoM) Special Interest Group in Measurement in Education (SIGIMIE) are hosting The Lifecycle of an Internship, a webinar designed to give more insight on the education measurement internship process, from2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on November 13, 2024.

The 2024 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference will be held October 22–24, 2024, in Hyattsville, Maryland. This year’s theme, “The Relevance, Timeliness, and Integrity of Federal Statistics,” reflects the FCSM’s role in providing a forum for statisticians to discuss issues of statistical methodology as they relate to federal agencies and statistical programs. In this post, we provide an overview of upcoming presentations at the FCSM conference from NAEP researchers and NAEP Doctoral Internship Program alumni.