Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the NAEP Studies SIG Business Meeting at the 2023 AERA annual conference in Chicago, whether in person or virtually.
The PowerPoint slides shown at the Business Meeting can be found here.
The PowerPoint slides from Enis Dogan's presentation "Equitable assessments and use of assessment data in appraisal of educational equity" can be found here.
In case you missed the meeting, we have a picture below of Ladislao Salmerón accepting the NAEP Studies SIG's first Outstanding Paper Award from Chair Amy Dresher. Written with Cristina Vargas, Pablo Delgado, and Naomi Baron, Ladislao's paper was entitled "Relation between digital tool practices in the language arts classroom and reading comprehension scores."
The last NAEP SIG webinar of 2022 occurred on December 13, 3-4PM ET (12-1PM PT). For the first time, NAEP Studies SIG collaborated with the AERA Indigenous Peoples of Americans SIG to discuss the NAEP National Indian Education Study (NIES).
The National Indian Education Study (NIES) is a special study funded by the Office of Indian Education (OIE). The study includes oversampling of American Indian / Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in public schools and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) Schools. The 2019 study design consisted of students taking the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) operational assessment followed by a short survey questionnaire specific to AI/AN students about the role of AI/AN culture in students' lives and school experiences. Additionally, teachers and school administrators of the sampled AI/AN students responded to questions about the integration of Native culture and language into instruction and how schools respond to the distinctive needs of their AI/AN students.
The webinar provided an overview of NIES followed by deeper insights into the context and significance of NIES as well as critical quantitative perspectives about NIES. Future research topics to explore using the NIES data were also shared for the NAEP research community members.
Invited speakers for the session included:
The PowerPoint slides presented during the webinar can be found here. A recording of the webinar is linked below and can also be found on the AERA NAEP Studies SIG YouTube channel.
On Wednesday, June 15th, 2022, the AERA NAEP Studies SIG hosted a webinar that focused on the 2019 NAEP High School Transcript Study.The NAEP High School Transcript Study (HSTS) is a NAEP special study where transcripts are collected and analyzed from a nationally representative sample of public and private high school graduates. The study examines the types of courses the graduates took while in high school, how many credits they earned, and the grades they received. As the HSTS school sample corresponds to the NAEP twelfth-grade assessment school sample, relationships between high school coursework and academic performance can be explored through the graduates’ performance on selected NAEP twelfth-grade assessments.
Are you interested in exploring NAEP data but not sure where to begin and what tools to use? On December 15, 2021, the AERA NAEP Studies SIG held a webinar to discuss various tools such as the NAEP Data Explorer, a freely available online analysis tool that requires no programming skills, and the EdSurvey, an R statistical package designed specifically for NCES large-scale assessment data including NAEP.
Presenters Paul Bailey, Ting Zhang, and Alison Filbey, from the American Institutes for Research, provided a brief introduction to the various tools available to explore and analyze NAEP data and share resources for those who want to learn more. B. Jasmine Park, also from American Institutes for Research, moderated the webinar. This webinar is an excellent opportunity for graduate students and researchers to learn how to better utilize NAEP data in their research.
A video of the webinar can be found on YouTube.
On August 12, 2021, the AERA NAEP Studies SIG presented a webinar discussing the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program and the spatially interpolated demographic and economic (SIDE) estimates study. The presentation focused on learning why demographic, geographic, and economic data are crucial in large-scale studies and how they can aid in examining various group differences in educational outcomes. Dr. William Ward and Dr. Douglas Geverdt of NCES discussed the purposes of the EDGE program, how the estimates are developed, and what it means for researchers who want to use the NAEP data and other NCES-sponsored data collection. Panelists: Moderator: Judy H. Tang, Westat Presenter: Dr. William Ward, U.S. Department of Education, NCES Presenter: Dr. Douglas Geverdt, U.S. Department of Education, NCES
There are two sets of slides from the presentation. The first set of slides discussing the socioeconomic status (SES) measure, while the second set of sides focus on the EDGE program.
On January 12, 2021, the AERA NAEP Studies SIG sponsored a webinar discussion on the student socioeconomic status (SES) measures. In this webinar, researchers presented results from two studies that analyzed changes in achievement gaps between low and high SES students over time. The first study used Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data and focused on country-level results, and the second study used National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and focused on U.S. state-level results. Researchers also discussed SES-related items from the NAEP student questionnaire data and how student-level neighborhood SES resources may provide additional perspectives on the SES measures.
Panelists:
The PowerPoint slides shown during the presentation can be found here.