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NAEP Analysis and Scaling → Scale Linking and Transformation to the Reporting Metric → Linking Diagrams for NAEP Assessments
NAEP Technical DocumentationLinking Diagrams for NAEP Assessments
Linking diagrams describe the following:
- how NAEP transformations were determined;
- how national samples were linked to previous national scales;
- how state samples were linked to national scales;
- how combined national and state samples were linked to previous national scales; and
- how special sample scale scores were linked to national scales.
In each diagram, arrows indicate a link between samples with the head of the arrow pointing to the sample that was already transformed to the NAEP reporting metric. The diagrams indicate whether the connected samples were linked via
common calibration or common populations. If the samples were linked via common populations, the population through which the link took place is specified.
| Year | Subject area |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| 2018 | Civics |
| Geography | |
|
Technology and engineering literacy (TEL) | |
| U.S. history | |
| 2017 | Mathematics |
| Puerto Rico Mathematics | |
| Reading | |
| 2016 | Arts |
| 2015 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| Vocabulary | |
| 2014 | Civics |
| Geography | |
| U.S. history | |
| 2013 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| 2012 | Economics |
| Mathematics Long-Term Trend | |
| Reading Long-Term Trend | |
| 2011 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| Writing | |
| 2010 | Civics |
| Geography | |
| U.S. history | |
| 2009 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| 2008 | Mathematics Long-Term Trend |
| Reading Long-Term Trend | |
| 2007 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Writing | |
| 2006 | Civics |
| U.S. history | |
| 2005 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| 2004 | Mathematics Long-Term Trend |
| Reading Long-Term Trend | |
| 2003 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| 2002 | Reading |
| Writing | |
| 2001 | Geography |
| U.S. history | |
| 2000 | Mathematics |
| Reading | |
| Science | |
| NOTE: There are no linking diagrams for Economics in 2006, for Arts in 2008, and for Technology and engineering literacy (TEL) in 2014. In NAEP, vocabulary, reading vocabulary, and meaning vocabulary refer to the same reporting scale.
Because preliminary analyses of students' writing performance in the 2017 NAEP writing assessments at grades 4 and 8 revealed potentially confounding factors in measuring performance, results will not be publicly reported. Some of the NAEP assessments included in this table are linked to previous assessments (prior to 2000) that are not included in the technical documentation on the web. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000–2019 Assessments. | |
Last updated 08 January 2024 (SK)
