The goals of The NAEP Guide are to provide readers with an overview of the project and to help them better understand the philosophical approach, procedures, analyses, and psychometric underpinnings of NAEP. This guide acquaints readers with NAEP's informational resources, demonstrates how NAEP's design matches its role as an indicator of national educational achievement, and describes some of the method used in th 1997 and 1998 assessments.
