Sampling for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Assessments

NAEP is designed to report results at the national and state level, as well as for selected urban districts, without requiring every student in every school to take the assessment. This is accomplished by creating a sampling frame using the Common Core of Data (CCD) and the Private School Survey (PSS). NAEP is then administered to a sample of students from this frame who represent the student population of the nation as a whole and of individual states and districts participating in the Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA).