States' Implementation of College- and Career-Ready Standards and Change in NAEP Achievement

• In Event: Curricular Policies From Kindergarten to College

Abstract

This study is designed to examine the relationship between the quality of states’ implementation of college- and career-ready (CCR) standards, as measured by five policy attributes, and change in NAEP performance from before to after the adoption of CCR standards using state-level NAEP data from 1990 to 2017. Preliminary results show that most of the policy attributes were not significantly associated with the change in NAEP performance, with one exception: the more specific the resources and guidance that states provided regarding the implementation of the CCR standards, the smaller the improvement in NAEP math achievement after the adoption of CCR standards. Results from this study provide much needed information about the current wave of standards-based reform.

Authors

• Rui Yang, Facebook

• Mengli Song, American Institutes for Research

• Michael S. Garet, American Institutes for Research