Colorado NAEP

Relevant Websites

Contact

Collin Bonner
NAEP State Coordinator
Assessment Division
303-866-6752
Bonner_C@cde.state.co.us

Colorado 2022 Results

Interactive online format: The Nation’s Report Card: 2022 Mathematics and Reading State Profiles

Important Announcements

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is beginning its assessments for the 2023-2024 school year. Please find below an outline of the upcoming assessment activities, including the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the National Indian Education Study, the NAEP Assessments and High School Transcript Study (HSTS), and the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) .

In 2023, the following assessments will be administered:

Assessment / Subject

NAEP Mathematics and Reading

NAEP Science

High School Transcript Study

TALIS

Grade or Age Level

Grades 4, 8, and 12

Grade 8

Grade 12

Survey of principals and teachers (TALIS)

Administration Window

January – March 2024

October 2023– October 2024

March – April 2024

*Under the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, Colorado district applications for Title I funds include an assurance that the district will participate in the biennial NAEP Mathematics and Reading assessments at grades 4 and 8. The U.S. History, Civics, Long-Term Trend and international assessments are voluntary.

About The National Assessment of Educational Progress

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a.k.a. “the Nation’s Report Card,” is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in different subject areas. Its two major goals are to measure student achievement and to report change in performance over time. NAEP provides results for the nation as a whole and for the states separately.

Performance is reported by groups of students, e.g. by total, by gender, by racial and ethnic groups, and by participation in special programs such as those servicing students with special needs and limited English proficiency. Each of these assessments/studies is based on a representative sample of the student population of the state and the nation and none are designed to produce individual district, school or student data.

Beginning in 2003, participation in NAEP has been linked to Title I funding by the federal "No Child Left Behind Act" within Colorado. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), first passed in 1965. The ESEA Reauthorization of 2001 (No Child Left Behind) included language pertaining to participation in NAEP mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8 for states and local districts that receive Title I funds. ESSA did not make any changes to the law regarding the authorization of or participation in NAEP. NAEP selects a sample of schools to participate as described here. Colorado and its schools selected for NAEP must participate in 4th and 8th grade assessments in reading and mathematics to receive state and district Title I funding.