NAEP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

NAEP Process Data Researcher Dr. Ruhan Circi will present on Friday, November 18, 2022, at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) 2022 Fall Conference being held in Washington, DC.

NAEP Researcher Dr. Juanita Hicks was recently invited to Norway to present NAEP process data at a workshop on Academic Resilience (AR) along with others from the international research community. The workshop, which is the first in a series, is part of a grant awarded to Dr. Nani Teig, associate professor at the University of Oslo, Norway through the Centre for Advanced Studies Fellowship Program.

The 2022 AERA and NCME annual meetings will feature presentations, trainings, and demonstrations relevant to NAEP R&D efforts.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) began to transition to digitally based assessments (DBAs) in 2017. DBAs enable the collection of data on students’ interactions with the assessment. However, these data are not trivial to analyze, given their time-dependent nature, abundance, structural complexity, and inevitable errors in collection. For the full potential of process data to be realized, researchers must possess analytical skills that go beyond traditional statistical analysis. In the upcoming 2022 NCME conference, researchers from American Institutes for Research (AIR) , under the guidance of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), will conduct a training session using methods taken from business process mining and graph theory to advance the use of NAEP process data.

2021 saw work featured by the NAEP R&D Program make noteworthy progress and impacts on multiple fronts. As we end this year, let’s take a look at some of those achievements.