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Printing Student Booklets and Questionnaires

Processing Student Booklets and Questionnaires

In each assessment cycle, the NAEP materials, distribution, processing, and scoring staff is responsible for the following tasks that are related to student booklets, questionnaires, administrative forms, scoring student open-end responses for each subject area and sample in the paper-based assessment (PBA) and digitally based assessment (DBA):

printing assessment booklets for PBA, and school and teacher questionnaires for PBA and DBA;
packaging and distributing assessment booklets for PBA; and questionnaires, subject ancillaries, and accommodation ancillaries to administrators for the PBA and DBA;
receipt control of the PBA booklets and DBA files;
data capture through image and optical mark recognition scanning of the PBA documents;
data editing and validation;
quality control;
upload of open-ended responses into NAEP's electronic scoring system, including scanned images from PBA, and text and image files from the DBA items;
creation of scoring training sets for new items;
training and performance scoring of constructed response items;
data file creation; and
inventory control and materials storage.

Last updated 17 May 2023 (SK)

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