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NAEP Center for Process Data Researchers Ruhan Circi and Juanita Hicks won the 2023 Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (EM:IP) Cover Graphic/Data Visualization Competition. Their visualization comparing traditional data and process data measurements of the percentages of students who did not reach an item in a NAEP assessment was featured on the cover of the most recent EM:IP issue, published in September.

NAEP Process Data Researcher Dr. Ruhan Circi will present on Thursday, November 9, and Saturday, November 11, 2023, at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) 2023 Fall Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

In June 2023, NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) panelist Dr. Gerunda B. Hughes of Howard University published a white paper exploring the history and equity issues of NAEP and making recommendations for improving “equitable measurement and reporting in NAEP.”

On June 21–23, the NAEP Research and Development Program hosted its first NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) Data Training Workshop at the headquarters of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in Arlington, VA. In this post, we will share some highlights from the three eventful days of data training using large-scale assessment data from the HSTS.

Last month, NAEP researchers Ruhan Circi and Juanita Hicks, along with Emmanuel Sikali, acting branch chief of reporting and dissemination in the Assessment Division at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), published their mini-review article titled “Automatic Item Generation: Foundations and Machine Learning-Based Approaches for Assessments.” The article was published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Education.