New Measures of Digital Technology Access and Familiarity and Their Relationship With NAEP Performance

• In Event: 34.094 - Fairmont Royal York Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: 34.094-3 - Using NAEP to Understand Student Course-Taking, Digital-Based Assessment Performance, and Assessment Construct Similarities

Abstract

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has transitioned from being a paper-based assessment (PBA) to a digitally based assessment (DBA). An important issue is the degree to which all children are ready for the move and whether any of NAEP’s reporting sub-populations are being disadvantaged by the transition. If technology access and familiarity are correlated with NAEP DBA performance and if there is differential access to digital technology, this could lead to results that differ from PBA. In analysis presented here, we used those indices as well NAEP cognitive items to understand the distribution of digital technology access, familiarity, and self-efficacy across sub-groups and their relationship with performance on NAEP in both the PBA and DBA modes of administration.

Authors

• Sami Kitmitto, American Institutes for Research

• George W. Bohrnstedt, American Institutes for Research

• Bitnara Jasmine Park, American Institutes for Research