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In October 2024, the NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) panel published An Exploration of Opportunity to Learn and Implications for NAEP, a white paper co-authored by Sheila W. Valencia, James W. Pellegrino, and Richard P. Durán. The white paper explores the relationship between opportunities to learn and the interpretation of NAEP results as well as how the concept and indicators of opportunities to learn could be expanded upon to include more recent thinking around social contexts for learning in the classroom.

The National Council for Measurement in Education’s (NCME) Graduate Student Issues Committee (GSIC) and Educators of Measurement (EoM) Special Interest Group in Measurement in Education (SIGIMIE) are hosting The Lifecycle of an Internship, a webinar designed to give more insight on the education measurement internship process, from2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on November 13, 2024.

The 2024 Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference will be held October 22–24, 2024, in Hyattsville, Maryland. This year’s theme, “The Relevance, Timeliness, and Integrity of Federal Statistics,” reflects the FCSM’s role in providing a forum for statisticians to discuss issues of statistical methodology as they relate to federal agencies and statistical programs. In this post, we provide an overview of upcoming presentations at the FCSM conference from NAEP researchers and NAEP Doctoral Internship Program alumni.

In September 2024, the NAEP Validity Studies (NVS) panel published a report titled Study of Changes in Public School Composition During the Pandemic and Their Relationship With NAEP Performance, co-authored by American Institutes for Research (AIR) researchers Martin Hooper, Rebecca Shipan, David Bamat, and George Bohrnstedt.

The 49th International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Annual Conference will be held in Philadelphia in just a few days, on September 22–25, 2024. This year’s theme explores the growing interest in artificial intelligence by asking, “How Can AI Help Improve Educational Assessments?” In this post, we highlight upcoming IAEA presentations from NAEP researchers and NAEP Doctoral Student Internship Program alumni.