R&D Hub

The NAEP R&D program recently reconnected with former intern Yichi Zhang at the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) annual meeting, where AIR was presenting a study using the ROME (Bayesian Region of Measurement Equivalence) method she developed during her internship. We followed up after the conference to get her perspective on the NAEP Doctoral Internship program, which is gearing up for its next cohort in June. Read on to learn about Yichi’s experience, including advice for prospective interns and more about her ROME method for advancing equity in educational assessment.

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.

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.

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.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Engagement Study was a collaboration between ACT, American Institutes for Research (AIR), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and Educational Testing Service (ETS) under the NAEP R&D Cooperative Agreements to explore the use of engagement enhancing features to improve engagement with, and strengthen the validity of, the NAEP Assessment. The following post was written by Kristin Stoeffler, ACT Project Director, Assessment Design and Cognitive Lab Lead.