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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and the arts. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

FAQs

Q: Last summer, I attended the NAEP seminar in Potomac. At the seminar, you demonstrated a few analyses by using the NAEP 2000 CD. My question is:

After importing the data from SPSS to AM, we edit metadata. In particular, ORIGWT is converted to a WEIGHT variable; REGRP1 is converted to a strata variable, and SCRPSU is converted to a cluster variable. (This process is valid for NAEP 2000 data)

However, when I want to run statistics on NAEP 1992 data, I cannot see the REGRP1 variable to convert to a strata variable. Only, ORIGWT and SCRPSU are available when I am editing metadata. So, does it mean that I do not need a strata variable for NAEP 1992 data set?

A: The 1992 data have the following variables:
1. JKPAIR, which is the strata identifier
2. JKUNIT, which identifies the pseudo-PSU (cluster variable).
You should use these along with the weight variable for your analyses.

A: That message indicates that the regressor matrix is not of full rank.

When using dummy variables, the most common cause of this condition is including one variable for each category, rather than excluding one category. When you do this, the set of dummy variables is perfectly collinear with the constant term. Instead, you should exclude one category and interpret the coefficients associated with the others as the difference from the excluded category

Both approaches work. The advantage of going the "Edit Metadata" route is that these will become the default values for all runs, so you won't have to drag them in each time.

You have identified the correct design variables for NAEP.