National Indian Education Study 2007 Part I on the NAEP Website
Published: 5/14/2008
This report presents the results for Part I of the National Indian Education Study (NIES) focusing on the performance of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) fourth- and eighth-graders on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and mathematics. A national sample of approximately 10,100 AI/AN students at grades 4 and 8 participated in the reading assessment and 10,300 in the mathematics assessment. Results from this study are compared to those from the first such study conducted in 2005. The results for 11 states with relatively large populations of AI/AN students are presented in addition to the national results.
