Nation's Report Card: Findings in Brief Reading and Mathematics 2011. National Assessment of Educational Progress at Grades 4 and 8

摘要

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment measures students knowledge and skills in mathematics and students ability to apply their knowledge in problem-solving situations. At each grade, students responded to questions designed to measure what they know and can do across five mathematics content areas: number properties and operations; measurement; geometry; data analysis, statistics, and probability; and algebra. The NAEP reading assessment measures students reading comprehension by asking them to read selected grade-appropriate materials and answer questions based on what they have read. At each grade, students responded to questions designed to measure their reading comprehension across two types of texts: literary and informational. Results are based on nationally representative samples of fourth- and eighth-graders.