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Tang Elected Program Chair, AERA Large-Scale Assessment SIG

June 19, 2025

Judy Tang, a Westat Senior Research Associate for Survey Management and Design, has been elected Program Chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special…

Team Member

Judy Tang

Senior Research Associate

Team Member

Jessica Brown

Principal Research Associate

Press Release

NCES Renews Partnership with Westat as Part of the NAEP Coalition

January 21, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the primary statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Education, has selected Westat to continue managing critical operations…

Leadership

Lisa Rodriguez

Vice President

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | U.S. Department of Education (ED)

What does the “Nation’s Report Card” tell us about how American children are learning?

Assessing American children's educational progress with NAEP

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

How do you compare skills of adults around the world?

Using PIAAC to study key cognitive and workplace skills of adults

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | U.S. Department of Education (ED)

How do we better understand children’s early development?

Charting early childhood development with ECLS-K:2024

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

How do we assess the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds in developing countries?

PISA for developing countries

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) | U.S. Department of Education (ED)

How well do countries prepare students to succeed in the real world?

PISA: Assessing students’ skills for the real world