R&D Hub

This month, we are excited to share the latest research from the NAEP R&D community, focusing on the evaluation of large language models (LLMs). “The Challenges of Evaluating LLM Applications: An Analysis of Automated, Human, and LLM-Based Approaches” will be presented at the LLM4Eval workshop at the 2024 Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) conference on July 18, 2024. This paper from AIR researchers Bhashithe Abeysinghe and Ruhan Circi explores innovative approaches to evaluating custom AI applications, addressing a crucial barrier to faster progress in generative AI.

There's just one weekend remaining to apply for the 2024 NAEP Data Training Workshop! After you've submitted your application, check out another valuable resource to stay on top of NAEP news: the official blog of the nation’s report card, NAEP Plus.

Applications are now open for the summer 2024 NAEP Data Training Workshop, which will take place on June 26–28, in Arlington, VA. Advanced graduate students, educational researchers at universities or other research organizations, analysts from state and local education agencies, and those interested in analyzing large-scale assessment data will want to check out this upcoming opportunity to learn how to conduct data analysis using NAEP data.

The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meetings are taking place in Philadelphia on April 11–14, 2024. In this post, we’re highlighting a small selection of presentations, trainings, and demonstrations from NAEP researchers in the NCES Center for Process Data and the EdSurvey Team, as well as some NAEP Doctoral Internship alumni who are participating in these Annual Meetings. 

NCES held the NAEP Math Automated Scoring Challenge in spring 2023, inviting anyone eligible for NCES secure data access to use algorithms and automated scoring techniques to predict the scores given by human raters to open-ended responses to 10 released NAEP mathematics assessment items. The results of this challenge (as well as those of the prior challenge using reading assessment items) are now available in a brief preprint.