Progress (NAEP) to allow more in-depth reporting on the achievement and experiences of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students in grades 4 and 8.
This report focuses primarily on two themes identified during the development of the NIES survey questionnaires:
1. To what extent are AI/AN culture and language part of the curricula?
2. To what extent are school resources available for improving AI/AN student achievement?
The survey questions selected for this report examined the knowledge that AI/AN students had of their Native culture and language. They revealed how teachers acquired and integrated culturally-responsive materials, activities, and instruction into their lessons to enhance student learning, and how school officials reached out to members of the Native community for their participation in school events with students, parents, and teachers.
These survey questions, as well as the report itself, were created in close collaboration with the NIES Technical Review Panel (TRP). The NIES TRP is comprised of American Indian and Alaska Native educational stakeholders from across the country.
This report will also present previously unreleased 2015 NAEP achievement data for AI/AN students as disaggregated by low- and high- density schools for reading and mathematics at grades 4 and 8. School density, as defined by the Office of Indian Education (OIE), indicates the proportion of AI/AN students enrolled. Low density schools have less than 25 percent AI/AN students. High density schools have 25 percent or more and this category is reported as being mutually exclusive from Bureau of Indian (BIE) schools. All other NAEP achievement data in this report (i.e., AI/AN state-level and BIE achievement data) had been previously released.
