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Academic Standards and Testing

Academic standards and testing guide student learning and accountability. The National Academies analyze assessments and frameworks that measure achievement fairly and effectively. 

Featured Publications

Featured work

Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology

Other

Completed

Summertime Experiences and Child and Adolescent Education, Health, and Safety

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

The Supply Chain for Middle-Skill Jobs: Education, Training, and Certification Pathways

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Understanding the Engineering Education--Workforce Continuum

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Successful Out-of-School STEM Learning

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Learning Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

A Leadership Summit to Effect Change in Teaching and Learning

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Units

Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences

Roundtable/Forum

Completed

Mapping Science Committee

Standing Committee

Completed

Roundtable on the Communication and Use of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Roundtable/Forum

Completed

Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress

Social and Economic Systems Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress
Happy and smiling multiracial family with grandparents by the beach in New England

Committee on National Statistics

Standing Committee

In Progress

Forum for Children’s Well-Being: Promoting Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health for Children and Youth

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress
Small happy kids having fun while running in nature.

U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science (USNC/IUPsyS)

Standing Committee

In Progress

Center for Advancing Science and Technology (CAST)

Oversight Unit

In Progress

Mathematical Sciences Education Board

Standing Committee

In Progress
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