APA NAEP

Today’s assignment was to visit the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website.  The NCES is the primary group responsible for collecting and analyzing data related to education.  This data is important for teachers because they can use this data to determine where their state stands in comparison to others. 

One of the programs NCES is responsible for is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).  From this website information can be input and the assessment results viewed.  The assignment was to input the specific data to retrieve the 2011 results for 8^th grade math students.  I performed tests on this data and used it to write the results section of an APA paper. 

This assignment follows NETS T standard #5 because analyzing research and reporting the data is important for professional growth.