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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting is taking place in Chicago this year on April 13–16. If you’re looking for a better understanding of the relationships between noncognitive constructs (often referred to as “soft skills”) and achievement, check out the “Noncognitive Constructs and Academic Outcomes: Using NAEP Data to Understand Differences in Achievement” symposium on Saturday, April 15, from 10:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. ET at AERA 2023.

In October 2022, NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) panelist Dr. Lorrie Shepard of the University of Colorado Boulder published a white paper making recommendations for a more “incremental and evolutionary approach” to updating assessment frameworks.

In mid-January, the NAEP R&D Program hosted the Winter 2023 NAEP Data Training Workshop in person for the first time since February 2020. In this post, we take a look back at the highlights of these three jam-packed days of training with large-scale student-level NAEP data.

The NAEP R&D team has been busy as we start the new year, and we know you have been too. After sustained interest in the application process, we’ve extended the deadline to apply for the 2023 NAEP Doctoral Internship Program for an additional week, through Friday, January 27. The program is a 10-week paid remote internship that provides interns with the opportunity to dive into data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) while working directly with researchers from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR).

2022 was a busy year for the NAEP R&D program, and we are staying busy in 2023! In this post, we preview some of the workshops, conferences, and research presentations coming up this year.