DeKalb County students grades 3-11 will be taking TCAP Writing Assessments in February, and DeKalb West eighth graders will take the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests this year. According to Lisa Cripps, supervisor of instruction for 7th-12th grades for the scholl system, the NAEP test is a continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do. Since NAEP does not report data for individual schools or students, it is not necessary to assess every student in the United States.