How are the results reported to the public?

NAEP has developed a number of different publications and web-based tools that provide direct access to assessment results at the state and national level. For every major assessment release, web-specific content is developed that is suitable to the Web environment.

• The Nation's Report Card is a Web site developed especially to display the results of each assessment in a clear format and comprehensive manner. To locate this useful information, there are links to the most recent results from any subject information page on this Web site. See, for instance, the link on the mathematics subject page.
• State Profiles present state-level results and a history of state participation in NAEP. The NAEP Data Explorer and State Comparisons provide comprehensive information on student performance.
• Explore NAEP Questions links users to the Questions Tool and Item Maps that provide student responses, scoring guides, and other information on the questions that have been released to the public.

Several types of printed reports published by NAEP can be found under publications on the NAEP Web site. These range from the NAEP Report Card, a comprehensive report that contains all the major results for each assessment, to technical reports that contain psychometric details of a national or state assessment.