The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meetings are taking place in Chicago on April 12–15 and 13–16, respectively. In this post, we put the spotlight on the NAEP Doctoral Internship alumni who will have a presence either virtually or in person as presenters or participants at the NCME and AERA Annual Meetings this year.  We are proud of their contributions to education research and involvement as members of the NAEP R&D program community.

Conferences are coming up; this year, the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meetings are taking place in Chicago on April 12–15 and 13–16, respectively. The NAEP Research and Development team has been busy working on presentations and trainings for these conferences, and we’re excited to offer an opportunity to dive deeper into the EdSurvey and Dire R packages at NCME on Wednesday, March 28, with “Tools For Analyzing NAEP and TIMSS Data in R Using Latent Regression.” This session will be presented by Dr. Emmanuel Sikali, Acting Branch Chief for Reporting and Dissemination at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and NAEP researchers from the American Institutes for Research (AIR).

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.

At NAEP Day 2022 this past Monday, October 24, the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) presented the 2022 NAEP Mathematics and Reading results, providing the most comprehensive picture to date of the pandemic’s impact on student achievement. 

If you still have ideas for how to bring data mining and machine learning to your inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) research, there’s more time to submit!  The call for papers deadline has been extended to July 8.