Using Tableau for NAEP Percentile and Regional Maps

Using Tableau for NAEP Percentile and Regional Maps Ebony Walton, National Center for Education Statistics Brian Cramer and Rahul Rathi, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC August 2, 2017 Presentation for 2017 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference

Outline 1. Transition to digital reports 2. Reporting of percentile scores 3. Reporting of regional data 4. Using Tableau for creating percentile and regional maps 5. Questions 2

NAEP: The Gold Standard • The National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) has a wealth of expertise in the development of large-scale assessments • Considered the “gold standard” in large-scale assessments • Innovative assessments (transitioning from paper-andpencil assessments to digitally based assessments and reporting (online reports) 3

Transition to Digital Reports 4

Reporting: Paper 5

Reporting: Digital 6

Reporting of Percentile Scores 7

NAEP Percentile Charts NAEP Math Grade 4 Percentiles and Average Scores for the Nation: 1990 - 2015 8

NAEP Percentile Charts Reimagined 9

Reporting of Regional Data 10

NAEP Grade 8 Arts Scores, by Census Region: 2016 148* 160 146* 11

NAEP Grade 8 Visual Arts Contextual Data, by Census Region: 2016 Significantly different (p <. 05) from Northeast.

NAEP Grade 8 Visual Arts Scores, by Census Region 13

Using Tableau for Creating Percentile and Regional Maps 14

New Ways to Display Data New data visualization tools, like Tableau can • be used for presenting data in different ways • allow users to visualize/analyze lots of data and put data in various displays, all in one dashboard • allow users to interact with the displays, selecting the data and the relationships they want to visualize/analyze 15

Questions? 16
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