Last year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered its latest U.S. history assessment to approximately 29,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in schools across the country. NAEP's web site now offers the public the opportunity to test their knowledge of American history and see how their performance stacks up against students in the nationwide sample. Visitors to the web site can answer actual multiple choice questions from the 2001 NAEP, can see how many students answered the same questions correctly, and can then read about the knowledge that NAEP's architects intended for those questions to test. Check it out at http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/kidsquiz/index.asp?flash=false.
