Plans to Give NAEP Via Computer Face Obstacles
The architects of the nation’s leading test of student academic progress are taking steps to move that exam into the computer age—and coping with the common frustrations of school-based technology.
Federal officials who oversee the National Assessment of Educational Progress have arranged to give a portion of the upcoming science test and the entire future writing test at two grade levels by computer, rather than have students take it with paper and pencil. But at a meeting May 16, they heard reports detailing the technological and logistical hurdles the government faces in trying to administer that prominent exam, often called “the nation’s report card.”
An early test of federal officials’ ability to give NAEP by computer will come in 2009, when they plan to have a relatively small number of students conduct computerized science investigations as part of the national test in that subject for grades 4, 8, and 12. Those officials said they are confident the relatively modest computerized...
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