Table of Contents | Search Technical Documentation | References
| Task | Sub-task | Start date | Completion date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Printing | 12th grade participation and engagement study, mathematics | 6/24/05 | 6/24/05 |
| 12th grade participation and engagement study, reading | 6/24/05 | 6/24/05 | |
| School and teacher questionnaires | 9/23/05 | 9/23/05 | |
| SD and ELL questionnaires | 9/30/05 | 9/30/05 | |
| Administration schedules | 8/15/05 | 8/15/05 | |
| Rosters | 7/15/05 | 7/15/05 | |
| Writing | 8/12/05 | 8/12/05 | |
| Mathematics | 8/22/05 | 8/22/05 | |
| Reading | 9/1/05 | 9/1/05 | |
| Bilingual mathematics | 9/7/05 | 9/7/05 | |
| 4th grade | 9/2/05 | 9/8/05 | |
| 8th grade | 9/7/05 | 9/13/05 | |
| 12th grade | 9/23/05 | 9/23/05 | |
| Packaging | Pre-packaging of mathematics manipulatives | 10/17/05 | 11/15/05 |
| Calculator quality control (QC) | 10/24/05 | 11/11/05 | |
| Booklets | 10/3/05 | 12/1/05 | |
| Barcoding | 10/3/05 | 12/1/05 | |
| Spiraling | 11/7/05 | 12/1/05 | |
| Bundling and bundle QC | 11/7/05 | 12/1/05 | |
| Address file | 12/5/05 | 12/5/05 | |
| Student, session, school files | 12/5/05 | 12/5/05 | |
| Updates | 1/9/06 | 3/6/06 | |
| Shipping | Send Sensitivity to Instruction Study (SIS) materials for fall | 7/26/05 | 7/26/05 |
| SD and ELL questionnaires and rosters | 11/28/05 | 11/29/05 | |
| Administration schedules, rosters, teacher questionnaires, school questionnaires | 12/19/05 | 12/19/05 | |
| Bulk materials to supervisors | 1/9/06 | 1/9/06 | |
| Session materials to supervisors | 1/9/06 | 1/11/06 | |
| Short shipments | 1/2/06 | 3/13/06 | |
| Send SIS materials for spring | 4/17/06 | 4/17/06 | |
| Administration | 8/16/05 | 6/13/06 | |
| Fall administration - SIS | 8/16/05 | 10/7/05 | |
| Spring administration - SIS | 5/1/06 | 6/13/06 | |
| Regular NAEP | 1/30/06 | 3/10/06 | |
| Receipts | Receipt of fall SIS booklets | 8/18/05 | 10/11/05 |
| Receipt of student booklets | 1/31/06 | 3/16/06 | |
| Receipt of questionnaires | 1/31/06 | 3/20/06 | |
| On-line questionnaires | 1/10/06 | 3/18/06 | |
| Receipt of spring SIS booklets | 5/10/06 | 6/13/06 | |
| Processing | Processing kick-off meeting | 1/11/06 | 1/11/06 |
| Blue dot of SIS (fall) booklets | 9/19/05 | 9/21/05 | |
| First blue dot (4th grade students) | 1/27/06 | 1/30/06 | |
| Second blue dot (8th grade students) | 1/30/06 | 1/31/06 | |
| Third blue dot (questionnaires and rosters) | 2/9/06 | 2/10/06 | |
| Final blue dot (12th grade students) | 2/9/06 | 2/10/06 | |
| Processing of student documents | 1/30/06 | 3/15/06 | |
| Security scanning of '52' admin code and non-used bulk student | 2/1/06 | 4/7/06 | |
| Processing of questionnaires | 2/10/06 | 3/20/06 | |
| Clean post | 3/20/06 | 3/20/06 | |
| SIS processing (spring) | 5/15/06 | 6/16/06 | |
| Handscoring | 4th grade mathematics pre-calibration - new | 8/14/06 | 8/25/06 |
| 4th grade mathematics pre-calibration - trend | 8/14/06 | 8/25/06 | |
| 4th grade reading pre-calibration - trend | 3/27/06 | 4/4/06 | |
| 4th grade reading pre-calibration - new | 4/24/06 | 5/5/06 | |
| 4th grade civics operational | 4/17/06 | 5/2/06 | |
| 4th grade U.S. history operational | 3/27/06 | 4/28/06 | |
| 8th grade mathematics pre-calibration - new | 8/14/06 | 8/25/06 | |
| 8th grade mathematics pre-calibration - trend | 8/14/06 | 8/25/06 | |
| 8th grade mathematics SIS | 8/14/06 | 8/25/06 | |
| 8th grade reading precalibration - trend | 3/27/06 | 4/3/06 | |
| 8th grade reading precalibration - new | 4/24/06 | 5/5/06 | |
| 8th grade writing pilot | 4/17/06 | 4/28/06 | |
| 8th grade civics operational | 4/17/06 | 5/16/06 | |
| 8th grade U.S. history operational | 3/27/06 | 4/28/06 | |
| 12th grade writing pilot | 4/17/06 | 4/28/06 | |
| 12th grade civics operational | 4/17/06 | 5/16/06 | |
| 12th grade economics operational | 4/3/06 | 4/14/06 | |
| 12th grade U.S. history operational | 3/27/06 | 5/1/06 | |
| 4th and 8th grade reading - Word Locator Study (WLS) | 6/19/06 | 6/23/06 | |
| Data delivery | Demographic files | 2/8/06 | 3/22/06 |
| Final demographic file | 3/29/06 | 3/29/06 | |
| Student questionnaires | 4/6/06 | 4/6/06 | |
| Teacher questionnaires | 4/10/06 | 4/10/06 | |
| SD questionnaires | 3/29/06 | 3/29/06 | |
| ELL questionnaires | 3/29/06 | 3/29/06 | |
| Pilots (8th and 12th grade writing) | 5/2/06 | 5/2/06 | |
| Precalibration (4th and 8th grades reading) | 5/12/06 | 5/12/06 | |
| Precalibration (4th and 8th grade mathematics) | 9/1/06 | 9/1/06 | |
| SIS preliminary (fall) file | 10/27/05 | 10/27/05 | |
| SIS (8th grade mathematics) | 9/8/06 | 9/8/06 | |
| Civics | 5/23/06 | 5/23/06 | |
| U.S. history | 5/8/06 | 5/8/06 | |
| Economics | 4/21/06 | 4/21/06 | |
| Trend scores - reading, civics, & U.S. history | 5/24/06 | 5/24/06 | |
| WLS 4th and 8th grade reading | 6/26/06 | 6/28/06 | |
| Trend scores - mathematics | 9/15/06 | 9/15/06 | |
| Capability Maturity Model (CMM) activities | 6/20/05 | 2/9/06 | |
| Write program business plan & receive approval | 6/20/05 | 6/27/05 | |
| Write project synopsis & receive approval | 6/27/05 | 7/7/05 | |
| Write customer requirements allocation document and receive approval | 6/27/05 | 7/6/05 | |
| Customer requirements allocation document inspection | 7/11/05 | 7/11/05 | |
| Write functional specifications and receive approval | 7/11/05 | 7/19/05 | |
| Functional specifications inspection | 7/25/05 | 7/25/05 | |
| Write software development project plan and receive approval | 7/25/05 | 8/8/05 | |
| Write design document and receive approval | 8/8/05 | 8/26/05 | |
| Write verification & validation plan and receive approval | 9/7/05 | 10/7/05 | |
| Initiation and commitment audit | 8/8/05 | 8/8/05 | |
| SIS audit | 10/5/05 | 10/5/05 | |
| Utilization audit distribution | 10/12/05 | 10/12/05 | |
| Utilization audit processing | 2/9/06 | 2/9/06 | |
| Report of activities | 6/5/06 | 9/15/06 | |
| Paper version | 6/5/06 | 9/15/06 | |
| Online version | 7/17/06 | 9/1/06 | |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 Assessment. | |||
