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NAEP 2025 - 2026
NAEP is in full swing for the 2025-2026 school year. Schools in NAEP have been notified of their participation. The NAEP program in Arizona will yield state-level results in Math and Reading in both 4th and 8th grades. A Pilot assessment for Grade 12 is also occurring, with several high schools in Arizona set to participate. In Grade 8, there are schools in Arizona participating in the Civics and US History assessment, which will be reported out nationally. The NAEP assessment window is January 26 - March 20, 2026. NAEP will continue to be administered by the field staff to ensure consistent administration throughout the country.
School Devices
A new feature of NAEP this year will include some schools utilizing school-level devices, and a control group using NAEP-provided Chromebooks. All Arizona districts selected for NAEP completed a district-level survey assessing the technology available in their schools. Thank you to those of you that completed the survey. This information helps NAEP to better understand the landscape of devices being utilized by schools throughout the United States. The goal of the NAEP program is to streamline the experience and conduct all future NAEP assessments utilizing local school-level devices. The application to take NAEP is much like TestNav and can be installed in a few ways to accommodate various district protocols. Application installers were identified through the district survey.
Contextual Items and Questionnaires
In additional to assessing subject area achievement, NAEP collects information from participating students, teachers, and schools through survey questionnaires that measure contextual factors related to student achievement. This information serves to fulfill reporting requirements of federal legislation in conjunction with school records. NAEP is required to collect information on and report achievement results disaggregated by the following variables, when possible: gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), disability status (SD), and English learner (EL) status. NAEP also strives to conform with the National Assessment Governing Board's policy principles laid out in their 2012 policy statement NAEP Background Questions and the Use of Contextual Data in NAEP Reporting that "NAEP reporting should be enriched by greater use of contextual data derived from background or non-cognitive questions asked of students, teachers, and schools" (National Assessment Governing Board 2012, p. 2) by collecting information and reporting achievement results for additional topics, such as technology use, school climate, and students' persistence in learning. |
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Gary McIlvaine, AZ Director of NAEP and International Assessments.
602-364-1583
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