1. The Role of NAEP in Virginia
Shelley Loving-Ryder
Virginia Department of Education

2. Use of Assessment Frameworks
Informs revision of state content standards
Virginia reviews its content standards every seven years. Alignment with NAEP frameworks is considered in this process.

3. Catalyst for Educational Reform
In the mid 1990’s Virginia’s performance on the grade 4 NAEP reading assessment provided support for educational reform.

4. Virginia & NAEP Percent Proficient or Above Grade-4 Reading

5. External Referent
Virginia never adopted the Common Core State Standards so NAEP’s function as an external referent has been important
Focus on subgroups as well as overall performance

6. Resource for Innovative Item Types and Assessment Research
Research on moving the grade 4 writing test to a digital based mode informed Virginia’s move of its writing test to online
Scenario-based items
Comparability research

7. Resource for Reporting Strategies
Availability of interactive reports and data tool
Recent use of contextualized release (science release at National Air and Space Museum)
“Hidden Figures” video